Forum: Animation

Subject: First animation, looking for a little feedback

neomorphius opened this issue on Jul 29, 2002 ยท 5 posts

neomorphius posted Mon, 29 July 2002 at 1:00 PM

Attached Link: http://3dnull.com/misc/atfintro.zip

Divx 502 2megs

This is the opener for a short animation I'm working on and could use some input on just about anything and everything :). I did the char animation in poser (Taruru's Yui figure and chitose hair), exported to cinema 4d to add the scene and special effects, rendered to tif and compressed with premiere.
Any compression tidbits would be most appreciated as this is my first time using premiere. When i compressed straight from cinema 4d to file, the file sizes were nice and small with good quality (500k-1meg mov or divx), but going thru tifs/premiere my file sizes got huge, 500 megs for .mov with sorensen 3, 10 megs .mov with animation. I finally used divx 502 and got something in the middle with a decent size.

Thanks in advance guys

Masterjedi posted Mon, 29 July 2002 at 2:10 PM

For your first attempt, this looks great. You Should be very proud. As for tips, I will try to offer what little assistance I can: Animation: The camera looks a little bit rough between direction changes and motion to stops... try easing in and out for motion and smoothing the path the camera takes. Compression: First of all, the screen size is very large and while that would be great for stills, it makes animation a little hard. if your final destination is video, you don't need as many pixels for NTSC (or even PAL for that matter). For the web it could be even smaller (like 400 by 300). Let me know what your final destination is and I can offer a few tips for better compression, OK?

neomorphius posted Tue, 30 July 2002 at 12:54 PM

Thanks for the tips Masterjedi, I see what you mean about the cameras, totally forgot easing even existed. And as for a final destination, to be honest i hadn't thought much about it. This is really just a learning type project for myself. I guess web for now, I'd like to be able to let my friends see it on my web site that type of thing. Thanks again

cat3dgrafx posted Mon, 05 August 2002 at 7:32 PM

I Myself thought it was great to be your first... A little sound and it should be set. P.S. How long have you been working on it? CAT

CLARK posted Wed, 21 August 2002 at 12:33 AM

Attached Link: http://E-Show.Org

I don't do animations so can only guess what it takes to do this. I liked what I saw the first time thru. Then read others comments and watched again. The Rio signage was difficult to read from the angle of course. I wonder what it would look like seeing her "shoot" from behind her? Anyway I remain impressed with the first effort. Clark admin@e-show.org http://e-show.org