shorterbus opened this issue on Sep 06, 2011 · 36 posts
shorterbus posted Fri, 09 September 2011 at 8:39 AM
Terry, this was not intended to be an exercise in slamming someone's work, but rather finding an example of remarkable Poser or Daz or Carrara animation that really wowed me and gave me something I could aspire to. Way back when Poser came out we were proud of the art we churned out, but as the software and techniques improved, that original stull looks pretty silly and my fear - based on the samples I had seen, was that animation was still essentially in the Poser 3 level. Actually, I was hoping to make a series of 30 to 45 second clips to accompany a Sci-Fi novel I am writing and I wanted to achieve something impressive and professional looking - eventually. Referring back to my original comment, you had 52 seconds of opening credits and over a minute in closing credits in a 7 minute clip. The idea, execution and creativity were all good. The character movements were very natrual and fluid and I shudder to think of the effort that went into this. But I think yours is the perfect example of my concerns - that no matter how much talent and effort one puts into the work, it is not going to look as impressive as I had hoped.