The Awakening of Consciousness ready to download

[Crunktastic]

That is hilarious! Very creative. Great short! I love the twist from serious to comical.

[eks]

FANTASTIC!!! :applause::applause::applause:

amazing short!!! :thumbsup:

EDIT: was this (http://www.cgtalk.com/showthread.php?t=175757) the thread you mentioned?



eks

[Pinet]

Nice one :)
I worked on a fighting game, im a StreetFighter addict and Im a kungfu Movies/DragonBall Fan:)
I really liked the Red character and the overall hands animations are hot.
Just wonderin.. does japanese people Write from left to right or from top bottom?
I know they read from top-bottom right-left but it may be different for writing...
:D

[isaak]

Funny, original and a lot of smiles :applause:
Nice work guys...my CONGRATULATIONS!!!

Isaak

I want to see the second part...ji ji ji

[modi]

hey Dani and gang, very cool to see this project finished, defn a lot of effort put into this, congratulations.

cheers
Modi.

[Mungo J]

Brilliant! i missed the wip thread, but this is ace, love all the different paces of action through it, and the eyes of kakato.

[genioloko]

wohhh!! awesome!! :) All that time of work finally ends with a really cool short movie. I'm waiting to see it in all festivals around the world. congratulations to all people who has work on it!!

LeeChuan!!! que envidia me das!!! otro corto más pal bolsillo! :D

[neofisk]

Congratulations! Very funny stuff. http://cgtalk.com/images/smilies/grin.gif Love the characters you've created ... and the caligraphy and brushwork are beautiful. The beginning is so cinematic! Very inspirational.

On your site it mentions that you work with max and maya (among other apps) ... just out of curiosity, which apps did you use for this piece?

[josephlyw]

One of the funniest short i've ever seen!:thumbsup: VERY creative and clever design. The chinese caligraphy at the beginning is awesome and the fighter game thing is cool.

[farhquad]

Well, we used Maya for all the 3D part. Photoshop for all the texture and images editing. Then we choose After Effects for all the video editing, it may seem strange to some people but I don't like Premiere at all, it crashes very often and also After FX rendering engine seems a lot more faster.

It's great to hear that you liked it!!! We are very pleased to recieve good critics about it, and we would like to know who didn't liked it and why....It may help us learn a lot!!!

Thanks Modi, I'm Santi Hurtado, from Palma VFX Spain. Maybe you don't remember but we played Unreal online once while we were in the making of LOTR: The Third Age.

I have to say that almost everything has been done just by two persons in a time lapse of 6 months, working hard and trying to do our best. Lot of things could have been better, but we needed to have a deadline in the ind in orther to finish this one and start looking for a job.

This is the most valuable price we can get....We are happier than ever!!!

THANKS A LOT!!!

[Pinet]

i use after effects to and i think it rocks :buttrock:

[Guulbanne]

Great work!

I found the intro a bit long (especially on replays) but on the other hand, it enhance the initial gag (when Kyotaro finally unveils his not-so-honorable side) so much.

I've watched it over and over since I downloaded it yesterday and it still lighten my mood so much.

Simply awesome!

[CuTnPaste]

genius !!!

ahahahah really wonderful!

:applause: :applause:

[LiffaMan]

five starts no doubt..
one of the greatest shorts i ever seen

[Wiro]

Hilariouos! The beginning did feel a bit too long but the fighting scenes more than made up for it.
Plugged!

Wiro

[visualboo]

Great job guys. I loved it.

Crits:
- I think that was one of the best title sequesces I've seen in a long time. Absolutely loved it.
- I was going to say that 1:10 through 2:33 was a bit drawn out but I just watched it again and I think it's great the way it is. I like how it builds the feeling and emotion you get.
- 2:34 through 2:47 is great. I love the animation and poses you hit. Very nice.
- I loved how kokoro quivers with fear when ryotaro walks by all calm cool and collected.
- Funny bit with the crotch kick, and I love the pose.
- Camera angles up to this point are SUPERB.
- 4:20. This is where I think it takes a turn for the worse. I think you guys pulled off the style very well. NAILED the sound.
- 4:47 through 5:00. The graphics and stlye are great here.
- 5:01 through 5:08 is very nice. I actually felt like I was playing mortal combat or something.
- 5:09 through 5:30. This could have been kept out. This whole segment is unoriginal in every way. And whats up with the batman smoke puffs? It clashes completely. Of course maybe that's what you were going for... in that case... good job.
- 5:43 through 6:06. Although funny, I think that this drug on a bit. And I'm not particularly fond of the fact that kokoro is above the black divider. Like he's one layer to high :)
- 6:37 through 6:41. I really liked how you incorporated the 2d with that sequence. Very nice.
- 7:06 through 7:17 was awesome. I wish you guys would have incorporated more of this angle, style and animation into the short.
- Loved the ending also. Great idea... but P2P? cmon. Why didn't you thank the lady that gave you a cookie at age 8 despite the fact that your mom said no cookies.
- Honestly I think from 4:20 to 6:15 should be removed completely. I think this is the weakest part of the short.

Of course this is all imo. And sorry for the long post. Take care guys.

[harmonic01]

Totally love it. The beginning also felt a bid drawn out.... at the same time it makes a nice build up and introduces characters pretty well. :-)

Great job. :-)

[-KDX-]

the credits took almost as long as the movie.

I like the idea...and the animation and direction were great...but it seemed *TOO* wacky. Especially with that uber-traditional opening...

-KDX-

[Lukas]

This is the best animation i`v seen in a long time!
Generaly i love every single part of it ! and i was laughing my bottoms off with my friends watching it!:applause:
Very inspiring!
Good luck!

[DeepGreenJungle]

Your graphic style is excellent. I really like the beginning and the brush work. The story didn't pay off for me though. It didn't seem like it went anywhere, and I couldn't help but feel I'd seen a lot of those jokes before( the anime flashing motion lines for instance ) Somebody menioned that it runs a bit long, and I'll second that too. But great graphic quality, keep up the good work.

[kr3ml]

Great stuff, the begining was kinda long as mentioned but the fighting was awesome, nice going!

Finaly some animations plugged, congrats to the frontpage :thumbsup:

great work

[GeekAnimator]

Best. Credits. Ever.

[Lee3dee]

the beginning, i was like hmmm, whats everyone raving about, then u kicked some really awesome and unique ways the fighting :D. The final powerup combo was Hilarious! Conrgats on your hardwork! Hope your going to be submitting this to festivals for all to see :D

[tobiasth]

very good! +5

[Pinet]

heyoo!
IM JALOUUUS!!
I would like to know if you made somethin special so your thread have 1500 more views in only some hours! i would like my short to be seen by the most people possible and im watchin it very often, and i also watched yours and hours ago there were least people that watched it than mine and now its 3 time more viewed! is there a special strategy or thats just the way it is? :P

I would also like to know what kinda web host you have since i almost exploded my upload limit for the month with 3 time less viewing of my thread :S
If you could mirror my movie it would be cool too :P

Nyways, dont take that bad, i pretty liked your short i would just know how to pump up my views and what kinda webhost you have, so more people could see mine too!

[Chrono]

HAHAHA...best short ever!! :buttrock:
looks good, feels good...and uhm, smells good! It's got it all!! :love:

[urgaffel]

I must be very stupid because all I find to download on the site are two old works... No new movie?

[Pinet]

its kinda tricky, the movie isnt in dowload !
The links are under the picture of the main page
http://www.awakeyourconsciousness.com

[Fasty]

Wow, what a short! Outstanding! :eek:

EDIT: Was that Yi Are Kung Fu music in the credits? :buttrock:

[mimo8]

still downloading,
but I am really happy to
a.) see a short on cgtalks frontpage again. must have been month since I saw the last movie up there ... keep the animation alive !!!

b.) I apprechiate it a lot that you make the movie downloadable as you are finished. most people finishing theyr shorts nowadays hold them back to show them at the festivals first, or even just sell it as DVD. When I really like a short (and I am sure yours is one of them) and I see it at a festival, although I know it from the web, I am enjoying it even more.
When I didnt like it than its also cool, cause then I know that this gives me 5 minutes to go to the toilette. :argh:

later
m

[loocas]

This animation... is THE BEST HILARIOUS PIECE I'VE EVER SEEN MAN!!! :buttrock: :buttrock: :buttrock: :buttrock: :thumbsup: TOTALLY COOL http://www.cgtalk.com/images/rating/rating_5.gif :applause: :bowdown:

[mimo8]

now I am also through and it´s also five stars from me (I know how this makes you happy)

my biggest laugh ... when the scenery broke down and you two guys had to run of.

the long intro was great - didnt bore a sceond.

have a lot of fun presenting your great work and enjoy the fame

[calzoncillos]

Excellent movie, man! :) Congratulations!

Endurisimisimo, nen! Ahora, a comeros el mundo! :)

[rbgallinera]

nice treatment animation...rather refreshing to see something really sensless but entertaining still, done in this style.
credits part is unique, but is just takes long.

[rrobert]

Wonderfull, one of the most funny animation I have seen so far!

GREAT JOB!!! :thumbsup:

[cg_sprite]

Wow that was funny!!!

great animation and facial expressions, the look of the whole peice is very good too. only one bit i didnt like was the part where it revealed you guys. but other than that small bit its a stunning bit of animation. http://img127.exs.cx/img127/5672/rating54os.gif from me. Ive just watched the whole thing with no sound and its a sweet aniomation but im betting with sound its even better. cant wait to give it a second watch later on.

[ninjacore]

Outstanding. I really liked this. i totally wasnt expecting it to go where it did. this is the best thing i've seen on here in quite a while. where are all the shorts these days?

the sound is Awsome as well . i really liked the bit when the characters power up and their names are annoucned. all that kind of thing i wasnt expecting .

Good job! i'll stick this in my cool movies folder and show my pals :D

[bry]

Awesome work!

Great shots and storytelling, great lighting and animation and very good and extremely funny twists!

Keep it up!


Bruno

[jmBoekestein]

LOL!

I was really curious after seeing your WIP thread! I never saw this coming! That was really funny! A videogame, and to think I was playing all night last night while tuning a render! Life really is easier to bare in a video game...:scream:

[thewave]

Marvelous work. I wish I could get myself motivated to create something as unique and funny as this.

[shotta]

sois unos cracks mi enhorabuena :thumbsup::buttrock:

[farhquad]

Wooow man....Thanks a lot to all of you encouraging and telling us pretty things...THAT'S THE COOLEST PRIZE WE CAN GET FROM OUR HARD WORK...REALLY.

It's have been a lot of time desiring to show it to the people out there, fests are a cool thing, but we think that all this kind words and crits are unvaluable....:love:

Visualboo: Thaks a lot for all the time you took for doing your crits. Sincerely it's been cool to see that someone has dedicated a part of his time to watch it with calm and analyze it "deeply".

I agree in some points with you, we know that there are risky things in it, as the one you mentioned about the falling of the scene and our faces in that 2D bodies...We wanted that in that exact way...but we knew it was pretty easy that someone disliked it.

The part they are running was intended to be that long, as it is a joke from the Anime series like "Captain Tsubasa" where they run for a long time without arriving nowhere...


Anyway...We need this kind of crits too as that help us to grow in knowledge and that's why this kind of forums exist.

THANKS A LOT TO EVERYBODY!!

We are super happy and will be for a long time.

Most Valuable price with no doubt at all.

Thanks Guys

[safe05]

Nice work guys! Big smiles throughout. :thumbsup: Great character work and posing. Felt the leadin was a little long, but not to the point where it's distracting. Keep it up!

[mv]

Thanks for that short ! it is fresh and immensely funny. And technically well done too.
:applause: cheers !

[Pentagramma]

WOW! That was excellent - http://www.cgtalk.com/images/rating/rating_5.gif from me, too!

Maybe you guys could speed up the things a little bit on the cinematics intro, but I´m just nitpicking . It was a great , solid entry.

Wish you guys the best of luck on the Festivals circuit ... http://cgtalk.com/images/smilies/clap.gif

[BgDM]

Fantastic animation guys. Love the game setting you used. Really added a lot to it.

BgDM

[TANGOMAN]

Really Awesome!! Love the style of animation and the Character design Style,



You guys Rock!!:)

[Agostinuke]

Hi farhquad,

I really love your animation. Great directing, cuts, camera and characters movements.....the mix, the idea, of the "serious" element melted with the funny old videogame style are wonderful. Don't understand some critics, I would not delete anything from this short. It's so rich and detailed...it plays with every element...its incredible. But the most incredible thing is that you are seeking a job...you should find 200 hundred jobs now.

ciao

ago-stino

[agreenster]

The end line should be:

"Life is easier to BEAR," not BARE

English is weird.

[alseides]

I liked it very much up until right before the fight. It had a cinematic feel (the entire intro was like real movie, which was very nicely done), and then you started to mix many clashing elements together. I know its all for humor but it didnt register to me as a viewer a very cohesive piece. When I first started watching it I had the impression that the main emphasis was story (which I think is more important than anything else), but by the end there was little of that, so I was a bit disapointed.

Even though the character models arn't exactly my taste they do animate very nicely and shows your extensive skill.

[Gkaine]

that was AWWWWWWWWWWSOME

also the shout out to starcraft @ the end is money man. great job to everyone who worked on this

[Tilstrom]

Great work, very well done. :D

[Thewipe]

congratulations , nice work! its goin to be an inspiration .

[pepe de lucas]

Congratulations guys, awesome work!
I love the idea for the credit list...

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[darcru]

I enjoyed the beginning, I think it set a mood that was not where the short was going and it worked! The lighting was exceptional in the opening sequence. I liked the fact that this short was not only entertaining, but you never knew where it was going to take you.

Great work, very enjoyable

[itayg]

lol :scream: great stuff. you got my 100th post :thumbsup:

[Dancing Monkey]

I loved it... could be a cool game...

[rrobert]

Common, front page animation quality! Award these guys! :scream:

[Kid-Mesh]

What a ride, this was a very cool short. I just couldnt get over those legs trying to support those big bodies LOL but it was great!

[mrloco]

Somebody tell me why this doent have the CG CHOiCE AWARD??? Outstanding work. Did you guys get a job yet? You should post this in the looking for job section. cheers.

[ErAn-C]

Thank you for making this short, i enjoyed it a lot :thumbsup: awesome work .

[farhquad]

Hi there, we are done and things are lot better right now, no stress at all. The feeling of a good job done and the great response from all of you in the boards and emails is the best reward we could get.

We are grateful for all the encourages we have recieved the most.
We also want to thank here all the people supporting us and the ones that have collaborated in the making of the film, again:

- Francois Jolin: Best music ever (music samples (http://eonsounds.tripod.com/)).
- Pablo Senent: Great support in the making of the script.
- Manolo Sordo: Amazing web design and maintenance (design studio (http://www.perfornika.com/))
- Javier Kintana: For that cool 2d Background (site (http://www.javinkint.com/))
- Javier Esteban: Lightning guidance and basic setup (www.novuolo.com (http://www.novuolo.com)).
- Javier Regueiro: Pro like header for the film (site (http://www.divulga3d.com/)).
- Isaak Fernandez: Round One Fight!! great animation for this shot.
- Pablo Peiró: Sound mixing creative ;)
- Santi Agustí: Cool postproduction fx and advice (site (http://www.saponia.com/))
- Jorge Tejedor: The Voice behind Kakato and Ryotaro.

Stay tuned for a little candy coming next week



THANKS A LOT SINCERELY!! we are moved :love:





..Santi and Dani..

[xiao_x]

that really cool.......the most funny thing is the fighter pull the hp bar........just very funny with the expression....... :applause: i really enjoy with this animation

[welshboy]

Really funny short!! i loughed my a** off!

congrats!

one question:

the logo. it reminds me on the arcade game "Parodius DA!" are there relations?

[farhquad]

Well, we aren't sure about what logo are you refering to. By the way, if it's similar that's just a matter of chance.

I have to tell you that a little candy is going to be uploaded tomorrow. That's just a silly joke featuring Ryotaro and maybe you'll enjoy it. It'll be kind of 1'5 mb...

C Ya

[farhquad]

Somebody tell me why this doent have the CG CHOiCE AWARD??? Outstanding work. Did you guys get a job yet? You should post this in the looking for job section. cheers.

What's exactly that CG CHOICE AWARD?

Awards are always cool :buttrock:

[itayg]

What's exactly that CG CHOICE AWARD?

Awards are always cool :buttrock:


you get a cool award logo next to your avatar and your work goes into the cg award gallery
http://www.cgtalk.com/forumdisplay.php?f=138
but i dont think they give awards for animation. only 3d & 2d stills.:banghead:

[Flip_Render]

The cinematic storytelling in the beginning really gave the shortfilm a different flavour. The gameplay part was really funny, and I just loved the way U mixed this retro look in to it!

The characters kinda reminded me of Monsters Inc.

The "highscore" closing titles were a great idea! :thumbsup:

[NauticaC]

This is a great short film! I love how you incorporated the video game feel to it! There were some funny parts as well, nicely done!

[JamesMK]

I almost laughed my shorts off :D

My favourite parts were the freeze-poses in some of the fight scenes - pulled off with an excellent sense of timing.

Some sequences were maaaaaaaybe a tad bit to drawn out, but fact remains that I haven't laughed this hard since I watched Scrat in 'Ice Age'.

[CHERNABOG]

Me parece genial su trabajo, en serio son una inspiracion para la gente que estamos empezando, la creatividad y el concepto son demasiado geniales, en serio no tengo palabras, los felicito y espero sigan mostrando su talento. :applause:


I think your work is amazing, really you are an inspiration for all the people that is entering the cg world, the creativity and concept are genius, nothing to say about this film, just amazing, I give you five stars and i hope you keep showing us waht you can make. :buttrock:

[farhquad]

Thanks, we love that people reacts to the credits part, as it was our BIG HOMAGE to Spectrum ZX, and if you have a good memory the ending is also a homage to this great machine. That's is the way it reseted.

Thanks again.

Chernabog: Hope to chat with you sometimes by msn. We have made a cool friend from Peru tha's crazy man. This has given us lots of new cool contacts that we hope to keep in touch with.

[JRBRAZ]

Really relly good !! :applause:

I love the mix you done. The characters make´s me laugh a lot :bounce:

[frameboX]

really fantastic. you know the world of fighting games.. :-) I love the part where the "slim" guy falls to earth like "frosted" to a stiff pixel-Image when he looses the fight and bounces with such a "physic engine"... and the beginning is very well timed, this ironic view of martial arts culture... and great characters also, they are very individual!

[mr_wowtrousers]

Top stuff, I loved the style and you really capture the ambience of a traditional Japanese tatami room perfectly. The only thing I would say (and Pinet said it above) is that Japanese is writtet top to bottom, right to left, not left to right and top to bottom. This seems a strange "mistake" given that you guys obviously have a great interest in Japanese culture and talk about calligraphy on your home page.

If I were going to be submitting this for festivals etc, I would really look at correcting those few short sequences (he says, not having to correct them himself ;) as while it might look okay to the casual observer, it isn't correct and you guys seem to have pretty high standards.

Just my thoughts.

[funnydoodle]

im not sure if anyone brought this up yet, u guys could use a little more research. that is not the way a caligraphy brush is being held. this is particularly obvious to the asian viewers.

look carefully:

http://www.wooster.edu/isa/graphics/caligraphy_small.jpg

http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~mmaxim/china/images/ashluluvicky_small.jpg

[yenvalmar]

but this is flat out bizarre and hilarious, great work.

also i dont worry too much about getting things from asian cultures "Wrong" because for the most part i feel like asian speaking countries could care less about butchering english. i just hope any mistakes i make in that regard are as funny as most "engrish" is to me. (i lived in vietnam for a year and have been to japan, i have friends from korea and taiwan, i know people who have lived in thailand, singapore, hong kong, etc, i dont claim to be an expert about asia but i do have at least some knowledege about it..).

[farhquad]

I apologize to all the ones that may have felt disturbed by our mistakes about the art of caligraphy. We knew that we weren't being loyal to some aspects of this kind of art and phylosophy. As you can see, Ryotaro uses a simple jar to put the ink, there's no such kind of jar, they use some kind of a plate...but well, we just wanted to get the feel, and we thought that lots of this kind of thing will seem strange to people that doesn't know a lot about japanese or chinese caligraphy.

Even though, sorry for the mistakes.

Hope you enjoyed the film.

:: Santi ::

[elijah'77]

Peace!!!
amazing movie..... nice work man..... all the best ... lets c some more worx coming frm ur end... great!!!

BANSI - animated short (http://www.cgtalk.com/showthread.php?p=2058857#post2058857)
HULK - wip (http://www.cgtalk.com/showthread.php?p=2058905#post2058905)

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