Animation round 1!

Here be the first animated animatic! Marvel, comment and critique!!


Crosshares Previs 14th September.

And here's a newer one with better shots, nicer animation and better cutting. Albeit, no soundtrack...


Crosshares 15th September.

Deglossed around the edges

Here's a new version: better reflections, slightly dodgy AE comp instead of Shake... Animation isn't quite as embarrassing this time...


Refined rendertest...

Shadows need to be tweaked to an agreed level. This is much less on the stylized purple, more to a darker blue.

Bugger'd hand and dodgy textures fixed too. Reflection now only on the outer gloss at about 0.2 reflectivity. Shiny.


H264 compression washes out the colour something fierce.

Rendertests engaged...

Prepare to be marginally amazed:


Shot 32 rendertest.

Whatcha think?

This render took about an hour and a half for 130 frames, split into:
1 background beauty pass
1 background amb occlusion pass
1 sky texture a la Brad
130 character beauty pass frames
130 character amb occlusion frames

There's 1 directional light for key (colour white, intensity 1,) fill (80% grey,) rim, shadows (raytraced, 1 degree, 5 depth)... and 1 omni for a little face detail (0.2 intensity, specular on, shadows off).

I don't have any clever naming conventions or path structures yet, but in theory this is gonna work quickly and painlessly. Comp'd in Shake with a bit of blur and distance fog.

W00t!

ALSO!!
Watching this at the proper framerate, I realise this particular animation sucks some serious testicles. I'll be redoing a lot of animation and religiously playblasting - just to get it absolutely perfect.

And Neil, check out his wrist. We'll need to repaint those weights a little, I know Orange has something with his finger too...

Re-visualised by a half

Crosshares previs mk02.

oOooh... shiny.

Explosms evrywarr

More explosions n stuffs. A few layers of smoke, kinda stylised looking. Massive render time, so we'll use this as a billboard, or just add it purely in post.

Explosion test 3.

Explosmnimation.

Like I said earlier, I now have Maya.

To celebrate, here's an explosion.

Explosm mark 1.

Whatcha think?

Blue Animation Test

Falling short on cash, but not on physics

Well, it works. Whatcha think?

It's on vimeo too.

Same noise, pretty texture

Same clip as before, except this time he's textured and moves his hands a little. Texture is still only rough, but it gives a better idea than just a flat orange.

Rendered with a single Maya software pass and a single directional light with a 2 degree angle for raytraced shadows, depth 5.

Enjoy!

Orange Texture test

Legging it

Leggy run cycle

Modeled, rigged, textured and animated in 2 days. Given, it still needs to be tweaked and fixed, but not a bad effort I thought.

Yes, there are still some dodgy paint weights. Yes, there's a seam along the inside of his pants. Work in progress...

It's not supposed to make that noise...

I've done some fixing of the orange rig. You don't realise how broken something may or may not be until you start using it. Good thing I did too, I didn't want to come across these problems later down the track...

So Orange is fixed, and I did an animation from the 11 second club with him today. From the new Dr. Who methinks...

Whatcha think?

Watch it on Vimeo here!

Au Francé

Here's a making of video of the first ever 3D TV series Insektors. Old classic.

Take note of the primitive technology, but really good animation principle. It's pretty broken, but cool non the less.

Monkeh.

Burning Safari.

More reference, this time mainly for animation style. I really like the pace and weight of the characters in this animation. Particularly the monkey. Looks freakin' amazing if you ask me.