Attached Link: http://www.vek21petrov.narod.ru/lost_planet_2.html

You can turn on English subtitles for easy video viewing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXQ2hLC2F4c

Congratulations to you and your team for a job well done!

Pretty interesting!

In the early 2000's somebody made a script and sold it where you in fact could animated poser in Bryce. I bought it and it worked very well. Suprised somebody has not done that now. That may be what was used.

I remember this script. But I use a different technology. I used Bryce and Poser for the model rendering by separately. Then I use After Effects for matching two frame sequences. This method uses less time.

You did an excellent job!

Thank You!

"Lost Planet 2" animated movie - the calendar for 2014.

http://3d-animation-ru.ucoz.com/lost_planet_2_calendar_2014_eng.jpg

Size: 1,6 MB (2480x3508)

I love the calendar.  Happy New Year!

Attached Link: the new version

Now you can download the full version of the movie.

Full version in Russian for download:

http://yadi.sk/d/IOhw05VRDCn3q

in right side white button with arrow to down

Size: 784 MB*

*and English subtitles for download:

http://www.vek21petrov.narod.ru/lost_planet_subtitles_eng.zip

This is awfully distracting.  I should be modelling for my own animation, but I just sat there watching part4... then part 5... tut tut tut.

Good stuff.

Dima, that's some crazy dedication you have there, I truly admire the patience you must have to pull-off something as epic as that!

Just watched it on YouTube with the captions on.  All the way through I was wondering how you did the animation of the figures, whether it was mocap or entirely hand keyframed using animation layers within the timeline.  Either way, I think it worked well, the characters seemed to have real weight behind their movement.

I liked the expressions when they were talking as well, attention to detail, well done

Editing and camera work was bloody nice as well.

I used mocap files for motion walk only. I created all the slow motions by keyframing manually. DAZ Mimic not support Russian language. I have a video tutorial in Russian, as I created a simulation of conversational speech based on the library of phonemes.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQC2ZXxPwus

I worked with the movie 8 years.

http://vek21petrov.narod.ru/MuitiLayerAnimation2009Eng.jpg

Cheers Dima, just watched the vid.

Interesting stuff, and you know what, I have Mimic Pro and didn't even know there was a "For Poser" version of it.  I'll have to check my DAZ account to see if I have one for Poser because if I recall, mine was just a stand-alone thing.  I bought Poser 10 a few days ago so it would be great to have that.

BTW, you can add further respect for your animation.  I was just watching you keyframe in Poser and realised you never even had Animation Layers in that release.  Man, you're crazy, eight years of manual keyframing - WTF!

You inspired me to have a little play with the animation in Poser 10 after seing your movie last night.  I even asked a question on the Poser forum about Indirect Lighting due to the problems it causes with animation.  It's a shame it's not animation friendly because I'm majorly impressed with the Firefly renderer, haven't had so much fun with a renderer since, well, Bryce!

So are you working on another movie, did you start a new animation project?

Hey Dima, forget what I said about IDL in animation, it does work after all, I just got some more replies in the Poser forum.

As long as you switch the processor preferences to use only one core, you won't get any of the random flickering.  I always thought it was strange that it fired-off random samples, but now it makes sense, it's not random at all, it's due to using multiple cores.

My apologies if you already knew about it but it's a new one for me that is!

I use an old Poser 4 Pro, but the Poser 10 has high-quality rendering.  I showed the render settings for both versions of Poser.

http://3d-animation-ru.ucoz.com/poser_4_pro_and_10_pro_render.jpg

You can download the introductory episode of my second movie.

http://yadi.sk/d/OMa309McDCyi3

I showed the button of "download" to the image below.

http://3d-animation-ru.ucoz.com/download.png

You can also take the English subtitles (*.srt).

http://3d-animation-ru.ucoz.com/lost_planet_2_intro_subtitles.zip

The DAZ Mimic is stand-alone program, but the Mimic creates files for Poser libraries.

I use file of lighting that creates the illusion of global illumination in Poser. This file contains a few dozen weak light sources around the figure. Poser 4 Pro has some limitations in the settings and I find interesting solutions in creating the illusion of global illumination. :-)

I know what you mean about the lights, you carefully place them to mimic bounced light, saves a lot of render time compared to using IDL.

Nice work on the new project, looks a lot more detailed and was good to see it in Full HD.  I didn't download the subtitles, I'll save that for when you complete the movie - and I genuinely look forward to seeing it.

BTW, I hope you back up these projects on at least two devices.  I think I'd go nuts if I did that amount of work and lost any of it.

I created multiple copies of all projects.

Lost Planet 2 (2014) - the beginning of the mission (English subtitles).

Nice work again, and I especially liked the hair changer in that one ;-)

And wow, what happened to the forum?
Sad it's so dead!

Hi, I present an introductory episode of the third movie from the trilogy about the lost Planet.

Link to YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYJ-3FGCehk

The episode in Russian language, so I added English subtitles and you can turn-on them on the player's panel.