Short animated episodes with Ricky Gervais

[grury]

great stuff Matt, very funny, the characters and animation are pretty good.

Very good idea, did u actually pitch it to them??

my only comment would be about the IK on the arms, sometimes the hands just get pinned in mid air, not moving with body, also when holding onto desk, sometimes the body is moving a lot but the hands are stuck to the desk not moving at all.

Cheers

[markpassion]

duuuuuuuuuude, you're like the best animator EVER! ;)

m

[IestynRoberts]

excellent work, well done!
Can you give me some pointers as to how you did the teddy's fur? Ive been trying to do thid for quite a while, your is the exact look im looking for, but maybe a bit more clumping. Could you give me any help?

[Mysterious X]

man episode 3 cracked me up !!!..great everything really....great job you did :thumbsup:

[lukx]

I Love It! Is it vray?

[CGmonkey]

Woa, I can't barely understand what they're sayin'.. great stuff :applause:

[AIPh Pretzel]

Not getting very good speeds. I am itching to watch these.

[satch919]

I can't see them either. Bad speeds.:sad:

[Don Kayote]

Could you bittorrent it. The suspence is killing me

[JHarford]

this is fantastic!!. i love Steven Merchant and Karl Pilkington !!!. every one of the XFM slots for very very funny..
'it's a stressfull city tokyo','you shaved your cat??'

[MattEveritt]

Sorry about the badness of the speedness

Ricky's site shoud be able to handle taking a beating from cgtalk if you wanna watch the lower res ones. I'm in the process of sorting out some mirrors now (in between doing some proper work of course)

[satch919]

Ok, I saw the lower res ones. Fantastic work. I loved them!

[JHarford]

i have to reply again!. :D. This is incredible animation..so much character in the little cute faces.. really nice design too.. and of course the lighting and rendering is brilliant.. props to you!. I cannot wait for more episodes!

[mrtprodz]

I can't see the episodes :sad:

[MattEveritt]

Helloo

Heres some more places to download from

www.me2films.com/bears3/foreigners.avi (http://www.me2films.com/bears3/foreigners.avi)

www.me2films.com/bears3/rock.avi (http://www.me2films.com/bears3/rock.avi)

www.me2films.com/bears3/mittens.avi (http://www.me2films.com/bears3/mittens.avi)

www.me2films.com/bears3/yfront.avi (http://www.me2films.com/bears3/yfront.avi)

Thanks for all the positive comments dudes....really gotta do some work now before i get the sack.

[kr3ml]

hahaha, great fun, really nice animtions, especially yfront episode, very well animated :thumbsup:

[Steve Green]

Very cool Matt, I love the little silent pauses...

- Steve

[AIPh Pretzel]

Goddamn that was brilliant. I laughed hardily.

[Matt-Clark]

Hello boys and girls,

I worked with Matt on these films, and as you can tell the servers are taking a bit of a thrashing, so I've mirrored them here too:

http://www.matt-clark.co.uk/bears3/

Don't hammer too much... we'll have torrents up soon.

[Ayen]

hey Mr Wibble, Great stuff, I love it, love it, love it :)

[AVTPro]

Hey. I enjoyed that. Thanks.

[MagnumCort]

These are really fun - made me laugh. Thanks for the pick-me-up!

[sykosys]

Great stuff. It's amazing how much character can be implied with a limp limb. :buttrock:Looks terrific!

[PCollier]

Excellent works chaps and superb animation ;)

[ebrowning]

Those are awesome! Laugh out loud funny! Great work!

[Ls3D]

What? No lip sync! I would at the least, employ a lipsync engine for these guys.

Congrates on digging up opportunity.

-S

[TheFreak]

FANTASTIC!!

I just watched the 4 shorts in work and i must say they are very good and very inspiring.

Keep up the great work and let us know if you make any more :)

Cheers

[MattEveritt]

Thanks a lot for the comments

My computer just returned from the doctors (it's been very unwell) and i'll be making a start on some new episodes soon. It would be ideal to release new ones on a regular basis but as always its just finding the time/energy to get them done.

Ta.

[AJ]

The instant whipping out of the lollipop & mittens made me laugh like a greased chimp! Also the fur (especially the rim lighting on the Rock episode) looks absolutely top notch.

Excellent stuff (although given where you work - I'm not surprised!)

[RAINpit]

its got me cracking laughter
great stuff man

ps. i smell lightwave round here. by the way, since some are curios, is that LW and messiah u got going on in there?

[MattEveritt]

RAINpit - Sniff a little deeper. Its not Lightwave you smell but the pong of good old 3d studio maximum.

[Jiokah]

hahahaha, the third one is flippin' brilliant! I haven't laughed that hard in a while! I think I even cracked a rib...

You have the physical expressions perfect! They're flawless! I didn't know a teddybear with no mouth could express that much.

Great Job! :thumbsup:

[alexyork]

these a freakin hilarious!! episode 3 is just awesome. so funny but so well animated, too. :buttrock:

[ThomasMahler]

Episode 3!! OMG! LOL!

Awesome work, I think there's a lot of potential here - I'd love to see some short series once in a while in tv, just for a good laugh or two! :) (Man, the voice of Ricky Gervais is incredible, he has such an addictive laugh!)

[eddieellis]

dude, thats so funny...

Can i make a sugguestion, if your using Ricky, you should do the episode where they do the muppets theme tune

[azloha]

i could even see the fur is shining, which just supposed to be........

[Dearmad]

OMG those effing rock! Haven't laughed so hard in quite awhile! :bounce:

[cpnichols]

RAINpit - Sniff a little deeper. Its not Lightwave you smell but the pong of good old 3d studio maximum.

Billiant... Brilliant animation. The rendering and the animation compliment eachother SO much. I have been showing this to everyone. Please you MUST give us more details... if you can't, I understand.

[Totoro]

HAHA
I love those bears :D
Episode 3 is really funny

[Pixelmech]

Oh man the guitar episode...

:buttrock::buttrock::buttrock::buttrock::buttrock::buttrock::buttrock::buttrock:

Great animation, no idea who these guys are but I love the bears. Great work showing emotion and character without mouths.. I love it.

[Ti-Ki]

These are great !

The voices are nice, and his laugh is so communicative ( not sure about this word in english).
First I didn't understand what he says on the "mittens" but just his laugh make me laugh too.

The facial is well done even without mouth. :thumbsup:

I didn't understand why the purple bear shakes his hand on the "y-front" episode.

I'm waiting for more episode for sure !

[mboi]

these are the best, can't wait to see more..

[Zeicon]

Nice work.

The humor is not my cup of tea though.

[Tink044]

I have put all four torrents in a zip file at www.pi-eta.co.uk/bears3.zip (http://www.pi-eta.co.uk/bears3.zip)

Be kind and leave it seeding for a bit please.

Cheers, and enjoy the vids they are ace.

[Geddart]

rofl... those are really funny. I like them a lot. Especially without the Libsync.

Keep it UP!:thumbsup:

[leigh]

Thank you!! Thank you for giving me something decent to laugh at :D Since moving to the States I have found myself feeling very deprived of decent humour, so this really made my day!!

Great work! I hope you make more and please keep us posted!! :thumbsup: :thumbsup:

[Koen86]

GheGhe! Tis is awesome! love the accent! Just Great! want to see more more more!!

Gr Koen

[mr_wowtrousers]

Ricky G is a comedic assasin. Top stuff. Good eyebrows.

[Matt-Clark]

Hello!

Glad to see your enjoying them,

If anyone's having probs viewing the high res videos, then there's a zip of the torrents here:

http://www.cgtalk.com/showpost.php?p=2194156&postcount=45

To answer a few questions:

These were entirely done in 3Dsmax. Mr Wibble (Matt Everitt) conceived and then animated all the shots after listening to the Xfm radio shows. Matt then asked me to add a visual flair to his originals, so I went in and slightly adjusted the the bears, added their fur, the backgrounds and then lit the scenes. The fur is created with Hairfx (formerly shag:hair), and is very quick to render and manage. No other plugins were used.

There are 2 other episodes currently in the works.. stayed tuned

Cheers,

[skull_leader]

Great work! I really look forward to the next two episodes.

I have just one question... how many days (i.e. 8 hours in a day) does it take for you to create one episode on average?

[Tughan]

These bears are so cute and so funny. No one can beat that two combinations. :)
Great work my friend.:thumbsup:

[HenningK]

Heh. Im just watching the Office episodes. Duality (nyeah!).
Pretty professional-lookin' stuff.
Was foreigners the original thing that you sent to Ricky?
Rock is sooo good.
'Course I could always go for a bit more expression in the eyes, if I had to make critique.
love,hen

[rhino23]

I got to tell you, those are really great. Very simple, clever, and quite humorous. I cracked up out loud during "y-front." Great job!!

[Tilstrom]

Heh, nice work. me likes a lot, me does. :thumbsup:

[RockinAkin]

Awesome work - everything is top notch - especially the fur shaders and lighting.
Keep making episodes, they're halarious.

[DUCKORABB]

Elo! This is probably the very great stuff!, but I can't see this:( every link (any parts) which You show not working:( (anyway me).

Regards

DCKBB

[andy_maxman]

this is gonna be there in every animation tutors reference folder.

classic piece to show communication with the eyes and brows.
it's very intimidating.....
:thumbsup: *****

[loocas]

Pretty cool animation and yes, very funny dialogues :thumbsup: http://www.cgtalk.com/images/rating/rating_5.gif from me man! :applause:

[MattEveritt]

Hi Skull_leader

In answer to your question about time its a bit difficult to answer. I've spent countless hours sifting through all the dialogue of the guys, chopping out bits that i like even if i'm not sure that i can do anything with them. Once i've got an idea the actual animation time would be a few days per episode once you add it all together. The difficult thing is to make them readable (cos of the big heads and small fingerless arms) but not overly animated. I'm a big fan of trying to animate with very simple characters. The quicker you can get stuffed rigged and start animating the better.
As for all the clever stuff that goes on once i've done animating i'm sure it takes Matt C next to no time at all. He's a clever b**ger and a fast worker once you get him out of the pub.

Cheers

[chris-mac]

superb!

great animation, with a really nice look to it.

:applause:

[Klytus]

I'm seeding all four AVIs from my server, get the torrent here:

*edit*

Actually, screw the torrent, I've never seeded anything before and can't get it to work.

Just grab the zip directly:

http://www.gd5.cn/bears2.zip


:-)

[Plugged]

I still get an unauthorised tracker error.. I'll help seed it once I get it..

[samartin]

Frickin' brilliant !!! Excellent execution, lighting and most of all animating...

Watched the lo-res version yesterday and thanks Klytus for the high-res ones...

[mimo8]

ahhh .... here it worked also for mac
http://www.rickygervais.com/bears3.php

great anim

[Morph21]

That is really funny...good work hope you make more of that stuff.


Have make also another mirror.

http://www.morph21.de/ftp/bears.zip

[MonteCristo]

That is really funny...good work hope you make more of that stuff.


Have make also another mirror.

http://www.morph21.de/ftp/bears.zip


the zip file is corrupted :( :( :( :( :( :(

[Morph21]

Hm yes i dont knwo why, i´ll fix it.

[Leionaaad]

my question:
did you used fur plugin, or is it just plain displacement, scatter, pFlow, or whatnot...
keep these thing coming dude!

[ilusiondigital]

Lovelyyyyyy, but htere are problems with the links

[Throbberwocky]

I simply L - O - V - E it! It makes me sooo wanna see more!

Ok ... enough flattering ... now give out some info about the fur :twisted:

[MrWyatt]

to say it in the words of the little boy on trycicle from the incredibles

THAT WAS TOTALLY WICKED !!!
:scream:

[Jiokah]

my question:
did you used fur plugin, or is it just plain displacement, scatter, pFlow, or whatnot...
keep these thing coming dude!

Matt Clark had answered this question in the first page of this thread, here's the quote:

To answer a few questions:

These were entirely done in 3Dsmax. Mr Wibble (Matt Everitt) conceived and then animated all the shots after listening to the Xfm radio shows. Matt then asked me to add a visual flair to his originals, so I went in and slightly adjusted the the bears, added their fur, the backgrounds and then lit the scenes. The fur is created with Hairfx (formerly shag:hair), and is very quick to render and manage. No other plugins were used.

[ddaniels]

Would really love to see these, what codec are they (cant view on the mac)

[Voluntas]

They are all very nice and funny. And episode 4 , althought 3 is also cool with the rock background, is the best, haha, the funny smile.

Good stuff. And like everybody says; "Keep it UP!" :D

[Samuraikuroi]

Lol Lol , Dude! this suff is great! pleasssssseeeeeeeeee do more!





My 2D Master & Servent (http://www.cgtalk.com/showthread.php?t=226306)

[CgIdentity]

I LOVE IT!!! Simply had me laughing so hard I almost fell out of my chair!!! Excellent, hope to see more!

[Fall0ut]

amazing, all I can say. All I need to say :D

[fxgogo]

Nice. works well.

[FrizzleFry0]

Excellent work! Even without lips or fingers, you still did incredible animation and display of characters. Like in the rock short for example, you can see how each bear has his own playing style. :buttrock:

[ivanisavich]

Haha! ....yfront! Oh man....

I salute you, and everyone else working at Passion.

[mopelie]

Ok, finally broke down and am responding after watching the episodes at least half a dozen times each. Episode 3 and 4 are my favorite. Great stuff man really! 5 stars from my end of the net.

Back: watched them some more...just priceless. /clap

[AJSolik]

Does anyone else think these aren't that funny? I dont see what everyones making a huge deal about unless ur all British.

[Chanchito]

Man this is stellar work!!! The part about the Y-front got me thinking, hmmm it's been a while since I ever wore a pair, of y-fronts that is, not underpants:D

[carlcaste]

is it just my interent connection or have all the links mirrors stopped working?!??!?!?!

i wanna see also ...........:cry:

[guereja_1]

is it just my interent connection or have all the links mirrors stopped working?!??!?!?!

i wanna see also ...........:cry:

i'm not able to see the clips either! the links say it's forbidden and so forth.

:(

[c_Hotchkiss]

hmm cant view

[Milho]

Try the torrents, it works quite fast and is a smart way of sharing clips without bandwidth problems ;)

[hackie]

lovely characters and fantastic animation.
especially, episode 3 "Rock" cracks me up!

btw, i'm like some of us curious aboout the teddy's fur.
if you dont mind plz tell me how you did that.
thnx

j!.

[NickBFTD]

These are great, the sound clips are funny by themselves but you've added a new layer to them with the props and such especially in number four.

[bunter]

I don't seem to be able t play these back on a mac. I have tried quicktime player, MPlayer, VLC and Windows media player -no joy. What codec do they use?

:(

[Matt-Clark]

http://www.rickygervais.com/bears3.php should play on Macs

[madgemini]

They R really cute ,aren't they??haha ,I like them,very muchchchchchchchchchch~~~~~

[Wintermute]

damn these are great! My co-worker thought they were hilarious, my friend just thinks they're wierd.

I personally love these, it just goes to show that you don't need a billion polys to pull off memorable characters. It also helps to have some really good voice-over/audio to go with your characters.

Great job matching up the animation to the audio-flawless job!

please make more!

[elijah'77]

hey the link isnt working..... jus chk it up...
-----------------------
BANSI-animated short (http://www.cgtalk.com/showthread.php?p=2058857#post2058857)
HULK-wip (http://www.cgtalk.com/showthread.php?p=2058905#post2058905)

[c_Hotchkiss]

got it and enjoyed!
Great At Accents, Man. Good work. Some nice character in the producer.

[][ndy]

Boy, these dudes are really cool. Episode 3 really rocks (and I don't mean StarWars ;o))
However when trying to load the avi files I get a forbidden message...

[wrench000]

Oh my god these are so aswome.. Love the bear and the animation. I would give my right gonad to see a full music vid of you gone go my way with the bears... Dood you got to do it.... Its my one of my fav songs.

[MattEveritt]

Cheers wrench000 I would love to do a full length version of Are You Gonna Go My Way although i'm not too sure that Lenny Kravitz would be too keen.

[oblong]

truly great work Wibble, You are one to watch.

Ob.


P.s Take a peek outside your window now-

[Marsinfur]

FORBIDDEN~!
WHy cant i see your stuff ....
check your links again ...

[MattEveritt]

Marsinfur - The best place to watch the clips is the original site where they were posted - http://www.rickygervais.com/bears3.php

cheers

[snovak]

hahahahahahahahahahaha I love it. Way to keep it simple. Great body language.

[wrench000]

Why not ask for permission.. Or better yet do the whole vid then beg for forgivness if they guy doesn't like it :) Remember its always easier to ask for forgivness then permission.

Man I love those bears they got so much attitude.

[CGRoman]

these bears are so icecold cool and even though i've never heard anything about ricky gervais: he's definitely got the style.

the animation is great in detail, how they move and underline each word with minimal expressions. just ... good!

[JKStudios]

These are absolutley excellent....Always liked Ricky Gervais' humour and youve managed to capture alot of character in those bears without mouth movement.

Just great....had to watch the 'mittens' one 4 times through...very funny. :thumbsup:

[yoa010]

good idea, so funny

[Oink]

Mittens = The best ;)

[danielkenobi]

lol very nice work Mr good luck with it :thumbsup:

[Chris Bacon]

Oh thats just crazy....and very funny...lol

exelent timing.....Im gona do some crazy animations now.....thanks for the boost....

[Norl]

Nice animation, cute!

[davidbasalla]

brilliant, really enjoyed it. great characters!! cool shading
sorry i have no clue about character animation so cant leave any constructive crits, looked nopnotch to me :thumbsup:

[MattEveritt]

Cheers fellas. Its great when an old thread pops back up the forum.

The Bears will soon be taking on the evil/brilliant Annoying Thing in the world of mobile phone-tertainment.
Am i selling out? You're damn right I am.

[mattmos]

Matt?! NOOOOooooooooooooo ! ! ! ! Don't do it! They'll have them doing a collaboration with 2 Unlimited :cry:





I'm sure the money would be nice though...

[MattEveritt]

Hey Matt hows it going?

Seeing as i'm not selling the rights for a company to do whatever they want with the characters I'll stay in control of the Bears destiny (insert evil laugh here)

I was thinking more The White Stripes than 2 Unlimited...Although what about...er...The Bear Stripes? Doing a cover of Tiffany's I Think We're Alone Now? It just might work.

[losttogether]

lighting and rendering is brilliant, i love the fuly look on the charaters, how did you do that? did you use fur? or just texture and bump? great character design and idea, short but brillant! good job!:applause:

[mattmos]

Hey Matt hows it going?

Seeing as i'm not selling the rights for a company to do whatever they want with the characters I'll stay in control of the Bears destiny (insert evil laugh here)

I was thinking more The White Stripes than 2 Unlimited...Although what about...er...The Bear Stripes? Doing a cover of Tiffany's I Think We're Alone Now? It just might work.

About the creative control good on ya, and I think rock teddies would er.. rock! Anything as long as its not europop :)

[Alf-Life]

Brilliant! :D

If you're still in contact with The Gervais, you could make use previewed clips from 'Extras' which comes out this Thursday and beat the rush. :) Or some classic moments from The Office - what I'd give to see that bear doing The Dance. :D

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