The animated short, "Same Difference" is now available on iTunes!
Animated almost entirely in Poser, "Same Difference" is the story of five identical robots and their struggle for freedom, individuality and pudding.

To learn more, feel free to visit the web site.

Thats great! Congratulations!

Congratulations. I think it is brilliant, and you are an inspiration and an example to everyone here.

Helgard

I love the clips... great work, and I mean more than just the animation.
I was already in stitches before she said she could ride a pony!

Think your photos are fantastic too, by the way. Not that I will ever be calling you for a maternity shoot!

I was showing my partner the website, the one for photography, and commenting about the design, layout, etc, when I noticed something. Nowhere on your site does it say where you are. Maybe I missed this, but for a photographer, who people would have to travel to meet, it might be a good idea if they had an idea of how far they had to travel.

He says Cambridge... but it's not the UK Cambridge..

Another wee thing... I can't get to the bottom-most sample sounds on iondot.com because there is no vertical scroll bar.

 Thanks for the heads up on the website issues. I'll see if I can get those fixed next week!

This is awesome and proof of the power of Poser for animation. Are there any interviews or articles on the making of this movie? Any chances you could discuss what tools you used in your animation? Any phyton scripts that were essential in the creation of this movie's animation? Did you use mocap or did you used pose to pose animation?

Attached Link: My movie and more

The short was animated in Poser 4 - which at the time was the most current. There were no scripts and no mocap. I tend to shy away from the term "pose to pose" because I think it gives the wrong impression and Poser's animation tools have long been underestimated. 

Everything was done essentially by hand. The animations were tightly control with splines, but it was not so far off from how one might do a stop motion animation.

The most difficult part was a scene where the robots climb each other. The characters, each using inverse kinematics, had to have their hands and feet parented to whoever they were climbing. This could only be done once, so the bottom most character had to be pre-animated, reacting to being stepped on, etc and then that animation had to be "burned" and locked. Then the next character could have its hands and feet parented so that the climbing motions would align and look natural.

If you do get the movie on iTunes, this will probably make a bit more sense, though hopefully you would never be aware of it.

That's very interesting. I wish Poser had animated constraints so you could pin the legs or hands of one figure to another without distortion and still use IK. Have you worked on any other Poser animated projects? Have you used any other software for animation? If so how does it compares to Poser?

not bad!