"Monkey Pit" Animated Short

[ryanduncan]

Hey Jeff- awesome animation! I know it's your focus so I won't comment on the other stuff. Good luck at Siggraph, I know you'll go far with this animation!

[MDC]

Absolutely awesome work. Everything about it is top notch.

[OrestesMantra]

That was so funny:) Anything with a monkey is cool to me:cool:

[lildragon]

LOL!!! CLASSIC!! :applause: no crits, I'm a sucker for 'snappy' animation :) it's very well done... give us some details :)

[Edin]

HAHAHAHA

That was great man :) keep up the good work.

I'd have to say that my favorite part was when the glasses fell of his but at the very end, Very well timed :)

I also loved the childrens voices. All round good :)

[dutch]

very nice
i love the childrens voices

[Russo]

whaaaaahahahahahahahahahahahhahahahahah.. amazing work.. amazing... are you working for Blue Sky studios? :p

really nice...

cheerz

[JFrench]

Great animation is rare. You are rare.

[shashhh]

great work man........ iliked it............i know how difficult it is to animate that kinda stuff........good job.....you can see mine here....

http://www.vfs.com/~m08shashwat/index.htm/letmesitdown.avi

shash:buttrock:

[MrWyatt]

You´re the bootymaster:applause:

[DXtreme]

real cool animation ... this is the place i want to be in the future ... realistic animation cool expressions concerning the gestic and mimic of the character!
love it ......

[Jeff Fowler]

Thanks for all the great comments, guys -I really appreciate it! "Monkey Pit" was produced in Maya as my senior thesis project at the Ringling School of Art and Design. I just graduated in May, so now I'm on the job hunt... which will lead me to Siggraph next week! I've never been to one before, so I'm really looking forward to it . If any of you are planning on attending -you might catch "Monkey Pit" in the Computer Animation Festival while you're there. I'm going to try and get some more work up on my website soon, so check back from time to time!

Thanks again,
Jeff Fowler

[Larry_g1s]

:thumbsup: to good...to good. That was great. Animation was nice, the voices where nice. Great job. Who did the voice acting (kids, etc.)? How long did it take you to complete it?

[NGKrush]

wow, that was cool

I like it very much how you made the people all fuzzy and stuff, very nice touch

only 2 things, not model specific: (spoiler ahead :p)

1. when he gets his glasses, and the camera shifts: it's quite wierd because all the other cameras stand still

2. when you see the girly baboon there are 2 shots: one where she's a bit far away and fuzzy, and then the shot where she's close-by, those 2 shots don't match up nicely (maybe a lens focus from the baboon to the girlybaboon, but on the otherhand, that maybe go back to the 1st note I made... hmmm)

great animation!

[Jeff Fowler]

The voices of the kids were actually my teacher's two children -they really did an amazing job. I had no idea their recording session would turn out so good, especially since they were stuck in a booth and didn't have much to go on, other than some photos I'd brought in... but I guess kids just have it in them naturally! Along that same line, my original story idea was a lot different than what I ended up using, which wound up being a pure accident. I was taping video reference of some baboons at a local zoo, and these hordes of children were sprinting up to the edge of the exhibit and shouting insult after insult at these poor creatures...so I decided their suffering must be told! :)

[Russo]

in what software you made it? MAx? Maya? AE for cmposit.? :thumbsup:

[lyca]

Thanks for that - it´s great
:buttrock:

[pensart]

VERY COOL animation !!:buttrock:
I bet it's made with lightwave :cool:

[Jeff Fowler]

All the modeling and animation was done in Maya. I started out using Subdivision surfaces for my main character, but by the time I was ready to rig him, I kind of got cold feet about using them, so I converted everything to polygons, which is the process I'm more accustomed to working with... I did quite a lot of post work in After Effects...one thing that really helped was not having many moving camera shots -in fact, I only have one, and probably shouldn't even have that...which I see has been picked up on :) Not moving the camera meant I could treat the background as more of a matte painting, and just do some photoshop-tweaking on a single rendered frame. Of course, that also meant that the background couldn't be me moving at all -leaves rustling, etc.- or have a true depth of field -but in the end, it didn't really bother me... after all, your eyes should be on that pink monkey #%$ !!! :)

-Jeff Fowler

[anticz]

That was great!!! Nice timeing and wieght, very funny. Top notch stuff. The audio was very well done too!!:). THanks for posting this gem.

[Oren Ben-Tov]

I liked it, short , simple and funny.

The end was a little unclear- but maybe that just me.
liked the animation.

How much time did you work on the animation alone?

good luck in festivals.

[Ryan Cronin]

Really nice Jeff. Love the "don't even come close" pose, when the other baboon wants his shades. The glasses dropping off his ass was the icing on the cake too!
Giggle-liscious.
Ryan

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