Here are some pics from a new cartoon style animation I've been working on. It started out just as way to try out some new rendering tricks, but I got carried away as usual :)

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Could you give us some sort of inside about this project of yours? I personally would like to know more about it :) <---signature---> Free your Maya Opaque3D http://www.digital-opaque.net

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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.

Interesting. It seems that cellshading has gained a lot of followers lately :p Keep the stuff coming. <---signature---> Free your Maya Opaque3D http://www.digital-opaque.net

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On my monitor the characters look a bit blurred. Is that due to the JPEG compression used in these stills, or is that in the final animation? Any estimates on when this will be finished?

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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!

I figured that was motion blur ;) <---signature---> Free your Maya Opaque3D http://www.digital-opaque.net

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OK. That makes sense. I don't generally associate motion blur with cell animation so it looked a bit odd. However, now that I think about it, it could be very cool. Please keep us posted on your progress and if you do little test animations feel free to post links so we can see how things are going!

Before they made me they broke the mold!
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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! :)

The web page says I don't have permission to veiw this content. I think you need to host the video somewhere else, or change the server set-up. :D

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

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.

Well, I have to say that I got a couple of laughs out of this one. Nice concept although I think I have to get used to the cartoon motion blur O_o Question. Is it me or you forgot to put the sound? Because I didn't hear a thing!

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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!

I liked it! I'm looking forward to seeing/hearing the final version! :D I could see a LOT of foley effects really enhancing the final cut.

I look forward to the full sound version. It looks like it'll be a fun story. And the motion blur turned out fine! It looks like you've got Gimbal Lock on the white character ( a byproduct of the walk designer) where the legs kind of jerk real odd while walking. I don't remember what the fix for that is. Does anyone else?

Before they made me they broke the mold!
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I am not familiar with Poser's gimbal lock so the only thing I can think of is to fix it "a la stop motion" as in fixing the position on a frame-by-frame basis... <---signature---> Free your Maya Opaque3D http://www.digital-opaque.net

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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 ;)

OUTSTANDING! I love that, and it'll work in this context.

Before they made me they broke the mold!
http://home.roadrunner.com/~kflach/

Sounds great to me. Very good idea. <---signature---> Free your Maya Opaque3D http://www.digital-opaque.net

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

This was just too much fun not to share early! This is an animation of the guy after he hurts his hand.

Give him long hair and a guitar and he could be Keith Richards. [grin]

Before they made me they broke the mold!
http://home.roadrunner.com/~kflach/

HAHA! he does look like he is air guitaring! It's funny, one of the projects I want to do one day is an all animated music video of a band playing live. Maybe I can reuse this animated pose? ;)

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

I've gotten a lot of work done on it. Still no sound yet, but it's coming along.

Nice to see you are still working on this one. I liked that punch. It was very amusing. Too bad you haven't added sound yet :( BTW, I don't know if you changed the render but for some reason the quality looks better now. <---signature---> Free your Maya Opaque3D http://www.digital-opaque.net

nemirc
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I actually took each of the 21 shots into aftereffects one at a time and added all of the environmental effects as post production work. I think it gave it a better overall feel. It also makes it look a lot less poser-ish :)

It definitely looks better :) <---signature---> nemirc Animation Moderator

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Here's a few new pics from it to compare the new look.

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I'm eagerly awaiting the audio as well!

Before they made me they broke the mold!
http://home.roadrunner.com/~kflach/

Attached Link: http://www.infinityminusone.com/tdr071005.mpg

wow, I have fans! :-D

I made a slight update. I fixed the overall contrast, touched up a few movements, and made the signiture at the end look more like my own.

Attached Link: http://www.infinityminusone.com/tdr080305.mpg

I added some sound finally. It's not a final version, but it's getting a lot closer!

Yes! Yes! Yes! It really adds a lot to it. Just as a quick note, I love the font you used for the titling. However, it's a little difficult to read in the credits. It might help to add some horizontal space between the letters. Of course, that assumes your final movie will be these dimensions.

Before they made me they broke the mold!
http://home.roadrunner.com/~kflach/

I agree with Bobasaur. The credits are a little difficult to read. However this is outstanding :-D The mute version was good but this one is a killer.

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Attached Link: http://www.infinityminusone.com/tdr081205b.mpg

Ok, another update. I changed one of the music cues, changed the font at the end, and reworked the signiture animation. It's pretty close to being done. Unless I get some good suggestions, I might finally declare victory and move on to something new! :)

Attached Link: http://www.kevinhammer.com/animation/tdr.php

Finally done working on it. There's still some stuff I could mess with to make it a little better, but I think it's time to move on. I put up a site, but don't have much info on it yet.

Very cool. The audio and visuals work well together. I can read everything. I noticed on thing though.... "Copyright" is spelled incorrectly at the end. [Yikes!] I'm a Mac guy so I don't know if there are any variations on this but on the PC at my office if I hold down the "Alt" key while typing "0169" on the numeric keypad I can get that circle-around-the-C symbol for copyright. Also, when are you going to continue this? Do you have a full story planned out or was this ultimately just a stand-alone learning/practicing excercise? I noticed other 'in work" items on the site - are they the continuation of this story or something new for us to look forward to? More! More! More! Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! Ah, the price of fame. ;-)

Before they made me they broke the mold!
http://home.roadrunner.com/~kflach/

Oops! I've always been a bad speller. Why doesn't photoshop have a spell check? ;)

I actually didn't even have a story for this part until I was halfway done. It started just as a rendering test and I got carried away. Now that I know what I'm doing I'll try to make some more once I figure out a story from here. The main problem is that the robot was downloaded from the free stuff area here and is only for non-comercial use, so I can't sell the animation. Not very motivating.

Edwin's Disc on the site is a new monstrosity I'm starting to get into. This one I'll be working on for quite some time. I'm actually scripting it out and storyboarding everything first before I start animating. I'm still working on the story's end, but it could end up being between 30 mins to an hour long! I'm doing this one all in lightwave with all original models (mostly very low poly, yay for cel shading!)

Woohoo! It's finally up in the animation outlet!