I never have anything perfect either, but at a certain point I usually get tired of working on stuff and decide it's time to wrap it up.

When I first animated the robot walking I noticed that the leg was popping to the side. I was about to start trying to smooth it out the hard way when a friend of mine said he liked it, and suggested just putting a funny sound effect every time it happens and making it a malfunctioning robot. I liked the idea since it not only takes a lot less work, but also makes it look like I did all that extra work on purpose ;)

congrats nemric, you've earned it!

Very nice! It's good to see more character animation being posted. Do you have any more animations online?

it's still a work in progress, the final product will have plenty of sound effects, music, and dialog. I'm glad you liked it!

Attached Link: http://www.infinityminusone.com/sneak.mpg

Ok, it should be fixed now, take a look and let me know what you think.

Attached Link: http://www.infinityminusone.com/sneak.mpg

Ok, it should be fixed now, take a look and let me know what you think.

Ack! This server is at a friend's house and he lets us host our stuff on it for free. Sometimes he changes stuff and forgets to tell us about it. He's out tonight so I left him a message about it. Hopefully he'll have it fixed soon. All of the files that were already uploaded work fine, but the new stuff I upload doesn't work. Oh well, try again later and it might work. I'll post again when I hear something definite about it.

Attached Link: http://www.infinityminusone.com/sneak.mpg

I've got a peak at what I've done so far online at http://www.infinityminusone.com/sneak.mpg These first 10 clips were done one at a time start to finish, since each one was an expiriment in some way. Now that I've got my method figured out somewhat, I'm doing the rest of it assembly line style. I've got all of the backgrounds rendered and edited along with transparancy maps for compositing, I've got all of the dialog recorded, and I've done all of the video capture. I'm still in the process of making animated poses out of all of the video captures (this is the slow part), but after that I should be able to finish it fairly quickly. Let me know what you think of what I have done so far! :)

I used motion bluring on the poser figures, so when I take a still frame it looks blurry, but it looks pretty smooth while watching the moving video. I just work on this in my spare time, which I don't have a lot of, so I have no idea when it will finally be done. Hopefully soon!

It's a prety simple plot of the guy and the girl trying to sneak past the robot to escape. The backgrounds were created in lightwave and then "cartoonerized" using the photoshop poster edges filter. The people were done in poser 4 using the cartoon with line display setting. It was all composited together in aftereffects. The sky in the background is simply a photograph of the sky that scrolls by slowly during each shot. Even though most of the elements were done in 3d programs, the overall look has a real 2d feel to it, especially in the panning shots.

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