Character and Vehicle: On yer Bike Kaneda

[Khepri]

HOWLY FREAKIN @^!#%@($^!!!!!!!!!!!!

THATS EXTREMELY AWSOME!

fan of the movie myzelf, and this is ultra cewl dudes!


:beer: :applause: :thumbsup:


5 star animation!


wooohoooooo!

[baby]

greattttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttt
:bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce:

[Ronski]

great stuff Evan, nice camera work as well....so when do we get Tetsuo warping out in the stadium then :scream:

Cheers,
Kieron

[evandavies]

Thanks guys...

Hopefully I'll post another short one in a day or so... (ok Chris ;))

Anyway... who's up for doin the film in 3d? hehehe I wish.

Hey Kieron I left that shot for you to do... :p

l8rz

E:-D

[evandavies]

Are they making a film?

This was a quickie (unfinished) using a beta of FinalRender ages ago. One day I'll have a go with the new one or Brazil ;)

E:-D

[baby]

they 'ra making a live action movie

[zeb]

Great work !!!
I think you had lot of fun during your work !

Now we want to see Tetsuo transforming ;))

:thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup:

[Taoizm]

Egads bwain....that's freaking cool.

[Raul3d]

I love comic books, i love the film but this is the best 3d work that I have seen in my live. It´s PERFECT!!!!!!!!!!!:thumbsup:

[Mangled Poly]

The bike seems kinda film grainy to me.... Over all really really nice work!

[skunk184]

greatv work man:buttrock:

[Julez4001]

excellent work my friend....
Just great work over all... be proud.

[jaydmax]

Dude your work is great.
Are you gonna add the rest of the biker gang?:buttrock:

[PokeChop]

HOLY CRAP! I must agree this is some of the best animation I have seen here! WOW! Freakin WOW!

I can't think of anything else to say...AWESOME!

[Reality3D]

Good sense of what High Quality is!

[Carlocki]

really great
only the character seems not Kaneda but Tetsuo

[RISKBREAKER]

F#$kin A! Thats the shit dude!!!:buttrock:

I loved the movie, Loved the genre.

I wish someone really did a follow up movie to this in CG...


"The battery, the battery!!"
-Kaneda

[Erik]

i don't really know the english word to say how beautiful i find this picture ;) good job.....
i am a fan of akira.... and wait now you finish the film LOL

[eRaDiCaT0r]

Purty sLick man! :buttrock: awesome! I like the animations I get a sense of its motion n balance from watching the bike move..co0Lios :beer:

[mushroomgod]

realy well done...

when will we see more????

[ambient-whisper]

that was a very nice animation:)

heres another version that i found on highend3d.com

http://www.psychoform.com/htmlgallery/kanedabike1.htm[url]

[url]http://www.psychoform.com/htmlgallery/kanedabike3.htm

http://www.psychoform.com/htmlgallery/kanedabike2.jpg

[Larry_g1s]

Great animation! :eek:
Most everything looked top notch proffesional!
Great job!

I love that bike :thumbsup:

[dmcgrath]

Another new entrant to our forum, poised for stardom.
:applause: :applause: :applause:

[T0BER]

There was an entire thread here recently devoted to Akira bikes, none were animated though.

Overall a believable feeling of motion and the character looks great too. I notice however that there is not much variation in the water spray from the back wheel and the light trail should maybe softened up a bit :shrug:

Either way, great stuff. :)

[Khepri]

Originally posted by Carlocki
really great
only the character seems not Kaneda but Tetsuo

have you seen the movie?

if so look at it again.

pill on the jacket, goggles, hair, gloves.

Kaneda

no flame intended btw :beer:

[Geriss]

Congratulation amazing JOB...


:applause: :applause:
:thumbsup:

[Carlocki]

Originally posted by Khepri
have you seen the movie?

if so look at it again.

pill on the jacket, goggles, hair, gloves.

Kaneda

no flame intended btw :beer:
yep
just confused by the hair

[JJ3d]

WOW!!:surprised

:buttrock: GREAT WORK !! :buttrock:

[dagooh]

Amazing dude, love the bike, love the animation, hell! i even love the road the bike is in!!
:buttrock: :buttrock: :buttrock:
you rule man, at least you have to do an antire chasin scene with that model! i don't care if you have kitt from knight rider chasing it, but i want a freacking chase!!

[Cadillacs57]

excelent animation,
ive seen akira, great movie.
you did a quality job there:beer:

[WannaB]

Great work!!!! its awsome:buttrock: :buttrock: :buttrock:





Jay:cool:

[Mr D]

:applause: :bounce: :applause:

O.K. ---> THAT'S JUST COOL

[aazimkhan]

K I L L E R . . .:buttrock:

[E.Z. Schwartz]

I love it. It's so much more lifelike and engrosing than the movie if you ask me. Akira was playing at a local movie theater for the midnight show a week or two ago, so I got to see it in pretty good detail. I never really got sucked totaly into the movie because of all the problems with 2d animation, (not to mention the redone voices which were very distracting if you're used to the old ones). This clip of yours imediatly draws me in though. If Akira looked like this it'd be one of the best movies ever, I'd say.

Ezra

[Revilo]

OMG I LOVE YOU I HAVE TO GO WASH MY PANTS NOW :(

[erilaz]

Yea gods!:eek:

And I haven't even seen the animation yet! Just the stills!
I will reapply my gasps when I have downloaded it!


C'mon, you dang download bar! Move faster!:bounce:

[EighthDecay]

great job, it has great motion in the character and the bike, the camera moves pretty cool too.

when he pulls away from the camera it would be cool to see some electricity surging around the wheels, like lightning.

anyhoo thought it was fun to watch, and will show it to a few friends. Kuzz Akira is a favorite of many of my friends.

y@

[maxtor]

IMPRESSIVE........very impressive:thumbsup:

[Infinity3d4life]

Funny how things happen.. I'm sitting here with Akira playing on my dvd player, and i just happen to check out this thread.. This is a awesome piece of work man.. 5 Stars all the way.. I would love to see a lot more of this.. :buttrock: :buttrock: :buttrock:

[ed209]

You have captured the feel of the anime in 3D amazingly. I'm very very impressed.

[Ckerr812]

wow. Nice job.:thumbsup:

[LukasS]

Perfect work of camera i can feel the speed and wind in my face looking at it :). But the water lacks somewhat, it looks wierd, try to make it random, but overall it is best animation seen for long time.

[CHRiTTeR]

U GOT 2 show us more of this stuff!!! :applause: :drool:

[R3Dmachin3]

Cool man!!
i like this very must !!!!!:bounce: :bounce: :bounce:

[boxcrash]

Very nice, really like the animation, sweet!!!!:thumbsup:


Originally posted by EighthDecay

when he pulls away from the camera it would be cool to see some electricity surging around the wheels, like lightning.



yes I would have to agree on this, as well as some sparks shooting of the cranckcase/clutch basket cover on the facing camera side to show it is dragging, because it sure looks like it does.

Also when he pulls away into a wheelie and then bounces into another you should make it appear as though he accelerates away faster because as all know a wheelie requires a harder acceleration @ a higher RPM, also if in the bounce its a quicker jerk, snatch like he just grabbed a gear causing the last wheelie.

I do not want to sound harsh or picky, because it is way better than my capabilites, but I use to roadrace and race dirtbikes so maybe I can give some insight??? Though I never raced a eletromagnetic front and rear driven hyper cycle.:)

[ashecorbin]

very impressive work.

Though I agree with someone's past comment about picking up more speed for the wheelie, I'd have to say that overall, it's still quite outstanding.

bravo

[mulavac]

Hey, keep it up man! You ought to check out migusan76 in the work in progress. He's doing the clown gang member from AKIRA. He has more updates on cgchat. Maybe ya'll can work on a short together.

mulavac:bounce:

[facial]

Hey, iIt is realy cool, i love your design adout that mathine, well, nice water effect, Post up more. :airguitar :airguitar
Well done.:beer:

[PureFire]

looks freakin awesome but the avi compression kills the eye candy....:bounce:

[teddy_yu]

very good!!!!:beer:

[HowieDoo]

I like the camera work, the shading looks great as well as the modeling. The only thing I noticed is that the water spraying off the tire looks a bit uniform, should be spread out slightly. Another thing is the the reflection on the windshield looks a little too shiny, could tone it down slightly. One last thing I did notice, when the lights come off the back break lights to give the blur effect the bike should be moving faster. I mean the light coming off the back is a blur effect visually so the bike should be taking off at high speeds. Just some things I noticed, other than that looks friggin awesome. :buttrock:

[DiGiTal]

absolutely incredible, very nice work !!!

[mv]

nice! I like the road.

[TIO_MATT]

VERY AMAZING!!!! I LOVE...THE DARK LIGHTING, AND THE MOVENT OF CAMERA!!!
REALLY IMPRESSIVE WORK!!!

[moroten]

Nice work! Just one tiny thing I noticed is the light trails that seems to come from just below the lights, not directly from them. Other than that, outstanding.

[evandavies]

Well thanks alot everyone...
I never expected such a response. I may even post another one... ;) I agree with the comments of the bike speed. It should accelerate faster to get the wheelie going but my thought at the time was that its a big bike with lots of power and its only a small wheelie so it could get a bit off the fround just on the throttle.

As for the light trails. Yep, they are slightly off . (Doh) but appart from that I was trying to get the feeling in the film were the trails are longer than the motion blur. Its a bit like slow motion photography on a long exposure....

I'm wafling... I'll post another one soon but don't be too harsh ;)

Cheers,
E;-D

[kamsvag]

Realy great work. I love the lighting and the overal atmosphere.

I'd love to see the scene where they fight on a bike and one character falls of. The camera was placed infront of the bike, close to the ground, as the clown (if I remember this correctly) falls of in slowmotion, as he hits the ground the speed goes back to realtime. A realy nice pice.

Your animation looked realy good.:thumbsup:

[RobinOberg]

looks excellent.
first time i read the manga i was captivated by the motion and design of their bikes. i dislike these modern asian style bikes but these bikes were just too futuristic to pass. and the movement, they look so fast.

and you seem to have captured it as an idea.
the water could use some extra work.
love the motion of the clothes.

[zeb]

hey we did the same at my job for our show reel

:beer: :beer:

http://perso.club-internet.fr/zeb/cg/mototoon.jpg


it's fantastic isn't it ?

[migusan76]

:beer: AKIRA, AKIRA, AKIRA, AKIRA, AKRIA. Very nice work LOVE it :drool: Can't wait to see more
AKIRA AKIRA AKIRA AKIRA AKIRA AKIRA AKIRA AKIRA AKIRA AKIRA

[Judge Drury]

I downloaded this at work, and watched it cycle at least twenty times before I noticed my art director had come into the room and was waiting for me to notice.:p

Very,very nice.:thumbsup: I'd hate to be picky in any way, but...the front suspension seems to flex at the headstock, like a swingarm. The bike in the comic has two sets of conventional dampers, which compress along their length . Unless of course you've taken artistic licence, and made them into telelevers!:D

[evandavies]

Erm....
The suspension should be working along its length... but then again there isn't that much reference for details of the bike. Even different posters from the film have slight changes in the bike...

Hey Zeb thats pretty cool... Like the Japanese disproportional models. I'd love to see Kaneda done in the same style with a big head. hehehe


"I'll try and do better next time..... promise" ;)

E;-D

[adboy]

love the ani, great style and lighting

one tiny, tiny thing

kanada's bike has a single swing arm

[elfufu]

can you put a mpeg version for us mac people to see

[lmc]

good good:applause:

[stephen2002]

quite impressive. I don't know the anime that it is in reference too, so I just think it looks neat.

The wheelies almost look like the bike is starting to fly (like it is going too fast and the air is picking it up) not because of increased speed. :shrug:

Still a very good job. :applause:

[Duhreetoh]

Pure goodness. I know you made the bike and stuff, but I'd kill to see a closer render of Kaneda. :D

[Barry]

Hey elfufu download the Divx plugins for Quicktime, I just watched the clip on 10.2. Great clip by the way, can't wait to see more!

[boxcrash]

I am not beating up on you, it is VERY impressive. I was only trying to help.
Yeah, a bike this heavy with a rotating heavy driven front wheel would take a little more to loft.
The landing is great though, good suspension settle and rebound.

It is great, just cannot wait to see the updater, revised movie.:scream: :applause:

[Infinity3d4life]

I have to post here again just to tell you how awsome that is again.. PLEASE ADD ANOTHER CLIP...PLEASEEEEEE...:bounce:

[Aeroplane]

Dude, ur work just coool! This is the best one i have ever seen here. awesome one. Push on! :eek: :eek: :applause: :applause:

[eric P]

great work guys, i can feel the mood of the movie.

5 stars,no doubt

[Airflow]

THIS MAN IS GODLIKE... END OF STORY :D

[Trilabite]

cool! nuf said

[evandavies]

Thanks very much everybody for the response (I'm quite dizzy now) and for the usefull comments. You have encouraged me to do more clips inspired from the film and show u all as soon as I can.

Unfortunately due to technical limitations Chris can no longer host my anims :( (thanks Chris for your help) I am trying to get my own site setup but that will take awhile yet...

So all will go quiet for awhile but I shall return... (hopefully with some more moving pixels)

see ya...

E:-D :wavey:

[Xilica]

i need to see this, where is it, has he re uploaded it again?

[kreno]

The stills apparently don't do it justice... and I never got to see the animation... this makes Kreno sad :sad:

[PokeChop]

I'm coming back in here to say this man and his work deserves over ten thousand views! I had to go watch Akira again tonight because of you Mr. Davies, you ratfink! Come to think of it, he deserves a sixth star...where is it!

[Mr D]

I like what I see :applause:

I don't know if you have seen this - but I thought you might get a kick out of it:

http://www.burningart.com/meico/motoproto/akira.html

[SPIDER2544]

dude i had the exact same i dea to dot that my self looks like you beat me to it oh well best of luck on your project (not to metion your doing a way better job than what i can do)

[road]

I sent you an email hopefully you get it .....
I will put the animation up on my site....

email or pm me if you didn't already get my email to you....

[evandavies]

Better late than never...
Click on link below and go to anims section...

[tyio]

yes, me too, want to see it :)

[CAAB]

Let's see it already ;)

[Rass]

INCREDIBLE!!! GREAT JOB YOU DA MAN!! :thumbsup:

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