Characters: funny birds (animation)

[SeVeR3K]

Yeah yeah its creat and very funny nice animations and funny worm stuff

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[INTiE]

Amazing stuff. I love the colors!

[onlooker]

very cute :)

[HenningK]

Heh heh. Cute as all get-out. Fantastic design, I especially love the set.
love,hen

[ToddD]

Reminds me of the style of Yoshi's island on super nintendo, very nice work!

[prats]

Y am i not able to download the whole shot....It downloads only 385 kb and then stops.

[Jozvex]

Great work! It's really crazy and fun!

The rendering is very nice and the whole style is perfect!

[jbingman]

no probs here - very cute! love the colors!

[pearl3d]

very nice

excellent work :bounce:

[FloydBishop]

Very nice. I like the design of the set as well. Nice timing on the animation and pacing of shots.

[BlackNull]

I'm likin' it, nice colors, nice timing, I wanna see more!

[dafonz]

I love the colors and the style of the whole piece. Good work!

[oxyg3n]

This is a cute animation, I liked the story too.

[fooweng]

:applause: cute, but can i know what is the blue stick?
lol
i just wan't to know. ^^

[skull_leader]

I think it's a worm... but correct me if I am wrong

[ashwin_m]

- AWESOME WORK -:thumbsup:
Great use of color an theme __ perfect
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[doude]

:) hey guys

Thanks a lot for your loving posts :D , very nice from you all.
I'm very glad you enjoy. I worked the character design with my friend jordane and he made finally this last board that I find nice...
actully, it was a real pleasure to work on it.

hehe! yes it's a worm.

The rendering was so long sometimes, we must have gone to a geology lab to render some scenes.:shrug:



http://yves.dalbiez.free.fr/images/fetb/grandes/fetb08.jpg

[fooweng]

lol, i just watch the movie.. lol, just now didn't notice that was a clip. sorry :blush:
I like that. :cool:

[TLy]

yeah bravo man ! C est super chouette !

A bientot j espere :)

[Maya4fun]

Really nice work,
i'd like the render and animation too.....
Vraiment très joli, un peu d'humour ne fait pas trop de mal:) .

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[Frank Dodd]

Very nice, great characterisation and a solid production throughout. A well presented micro story carried off with great colour and life.

[-JT-]

very cute !!! I like the backgrounds, it's original. :)

[Profane]

wow guys!it seems like there was an explosion of great artists from france!...
great work!

[maddness]

that's about as cute as it gets... :thumbsup:

[klinker]

yes, the background is great. excellent work. but the scene where they catch the worm is littlle fast. i didnt understand it at the first time i looked. anyway, really nice job :thumbsup: :applause:

[kmest]

i like t alot,it was funny with some very good animations :applause: :applause:

[dhruva]

man it's really good it is so cute keep it up

[YasushAzush]

hey men i like the material of the things.
gtate job :bounce:

[CarlCampbell]

Short 'n' sweet :) Overall very nice feel and cute characters, I think the sounds used for their "voices" was just right. Nice backdrop and environment, kinda reminded me of Yoshi's Story with the cutout-like objects and all. Great colours and good animation :thumbsup:

[B-rad]

Could find no problems whatsoever very nice lighting, loved the shadows. Top notch work.

[Savage_Henry]

Very cute!
wonderfully executed...I enjoyed this very much!!!

[elnady]

Amazing job :bounce:

[evo_supra]

Nice colours and cute character!! Keep it up!

[DoLeeP]

Ultra cute extra cute heh very funny
I love this Animation

[Matt_Forcum]

well, whatever the problem is, I dont have the right codec and it won't let me play it. any Ideas anyone?

[jayashton]

very good mood, Loved it.

[gabrill]

nice work!! I like the stage-like scence.

[ansonkit]

I download the movie.... But can't play..... what codec are you using to compress this movie....?

[Benton]

:bounce: pretty and cute!

[inferno_angle]

well,to look this work,i have to wait 3 hours~,,,,

[learning3D]

is there anyone who can convert it to .mov or .qt (quick time) - i am on mac and cant watch this animation :-( thx in advance....

[ry_goody]

Awesome job, although when there both running for the worm it seems a bit jumpy. But still excellent, the facial expressions and animations are absolutely perfect, they show what their thinking very well with their face.

But if ya don't mind me asking, what technique did you use for the facial animation?

[ry_goody]

is there anyone who can convert it to .mov or .qt (quick time) - i am on mac and cant watch this animation :-( thx in advance....

http://mplayerosx.sourceforge.net/
Try that, it's a free, open-source port of a linux media player that will play pretty much any .avi or video file dealing with divx and xvid.

[rastapopoulos]

Yeah! Give me crowbar man!
Well done man, i love the rendering and the bigeast's style of the background.
Great work! :thumbsup:

[yann@enora]

is there anyone who can convert it to .mov or .qt (quick time) - i am on mac and cant watch this animation :-( thx in advance....

VLC (http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/14738) is a good versatile freeware too

btw, nice job, Doude. :bounce:

[bash]

Very nice! :) Cool animation.
The scenery is great! :) Just the way i like it.. hehe :D

[rainbow-man]

Pitiful worm..:sad:
I love the characters and the animations too.But i no understand the story:shrug:

[PEN]

Pitiful worm..:sad:
I love the characters and the animations too.But i no understand the story:shrug:
You must not be married;)

[Bimo]

i love the story argh mann u should extend it more... i lv the color aswell.

[doude]

:) Hi guys

Thank you again for your posts and answers.
For the background :D I probably too much played to mario bros when I was young...
I'm pretty sure that a lot of others old children TV animations inspired me too.

Well, I think its right for the first scene, it was really hard to animate and we didn't have the time to do a better job for this one. I guess the animation is not perfect at all on the whole short...still many things to work, but its done.:)

the codec of the short is DIVX 5.0 and if you don't get the file in 5 minutes with a high connection, there is probably a trouble, I couldn't make anything for this.:shrug:

ry-goody --> the technique for facial animation is only a blend shapes work with maya.
All differents shapes with different moods for each part of the face have been
made before the animation. I'll try to post some screenshots with the maya
scene.

guerninon -> so whats up! I give you the crowbar for 10 bucks man :) thanks renderman

http://yves.dalbiez.free.fr/images/fetb/grandes/fetb05.jpg


http://yves.dalbiez.free.fr/images/fetb/grandes/fetb06.jpg

[ZMC]

Colors with characters = Matchs good.
Nice animation.:thumbsup:

[Bracer]

I Like The Way You Potrya The Head ! The Eyelashes !

[k4k]

:bounce: doude :bounce:
sweet animation!
superb colors!!
but.,short movie!!!

[AndyWhiteley]

Excellent. Nice, vibrant, colour scheme and lighting. Some great animation and character design.

Would have been nice to have seen some secondary animation on the females hair.

Eye's reminded me of Pixars short film 'For The Birds'. Influenced by them by any chance?

[igami]

Cool animation!
Like it alot. Very nice models and lighting.
MENTAL RAY RULES!

[YasushAzush]

hey man what kind of rendering and also lighting do you use for it .
i will wait untill the maya screen shots.:bounce:

[doude]

hi!


andy (http://www.cgtalk.com/member.php?u=53784) whiteley > sure, eyes from "for the birds" have a very good way to be easy and expressive. It could be a mistake not to be influenced for this project:) I guess.
Furthermore, look at the animation better, you 'll be able to see that the animation of the female's hair is here :rolleyes: .Maybe, we could make it more visible but I think it was not useful here.
I didn't want the hair could become too smooth. And I can say its a f... awful Shit to use a giggle in maya WITH mental ray...you can't imagine:scream: thanks for the crits. :)

It was the first time I use mental Ray for the renderer and I passed a lot of time to understand well (2 weeks)the way to get a beautiful light. GI is so different than a simply lighting.
Its easy enough to have a good render,the more difficult is to reduce the time of rendering which could be horrible :twisted:


vis (http://www.cgtalk.com/member.php?u=20936) > the renderer is MENTAL RAY :) and there are lights for each eye for the specular which follow the eyes. a skylight for the Global illumination (final gathering only) and a spotlight to simulate the sunlight. And if I remember, a back light maybe but not sure, I guess the sky was sufficient. What is important is to have a perfect color sky first.


thanks for your interest all.:thumbsup: go on I will put screenshots for more details

[KevinKraeer]

Well done, great characters and animation.

Color scheme and lighting are top notch. Keep it up!

[doude]

:) so, here more details from the prod.


about the facial animation: each facial expression is made before the animation. In this way, its important to know exactly (before doing this), which expression you need for the production.


http://yves.dalbiez.free.fr/postforum/blends2.jpg


about the lighting on the background (with GI in mental Ray) in green, the spotlight to have a direct light (simulate the sun). THe Skydome have the color of the sky, a blue for the indirect light.
http://yves.dalbiez.free.fr/postforum/skyGI.jpg

http://yves.dalbiez.free.fr/postforum/lighting_test1.jpg

http://yves.dalbiez.free.fr/postforum/lightingTest2.jpg


About the rendering with mental ray, here two tests on the male. The first is only with the light of the skydome, the second with the spotlight and the sky.
Hope you'll appreciate these screenshots.:)

http://yves.dalbiez.free.fr/postforum/renderTEST1.jpg


http://yves.dalbiez.free.fr/postforum/renderTest2_spot.jpg

[YasushAzush]

DUUDO
first of all let me tell you :scream:somthing..........................................
men you have done a very great kind of job :scream:meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeen.
i realy enjoy it lot.
. i am a very new maya user please tell me where i can find that sky light i mean .is that a plugin or ...?
.what is skydome?
also
.what kind of computer do you use ?

again what you have done is very :scream:weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeell:thumbsup: :bounce: :buttrock: :applause:

[doude]

hey guys,


If you are interested by the short film called RIBA. It 's diffused at Siggraph 2004.
cf http://www.cgnetworks.com/gallery/gallery_image.php?image_id=593

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