Animal Animation: A tiny sparrow

[LadyMedusa]

Holy shit! Thats amazing mate! :eek:
Keep it up.
Can't really say more

[NicoCorrao]

That looks damn nice....

seems a little heavy maybe on the first landing but holy crap a good job.

_Nico_

[pakdee]

looks so real
the animation is so detail. no crits from me. good job

[freakmoomin]

ONE day!!!

feckin hell, thats some real good work.

nice model, nice textures, NICE animation, nice rig!!!

most people would have been happy with getting one of those features that good in one day!


quality

5 stars!

[Tom W.]

Very nice, great jobs on the wing after it lands, very impressive :)

[erilaz]

Reminds me of the sparrow from Ninjai! Maybe it's just the music!:D

Abso-freakin-lutely stunning work mate. Deserves a plug on the front page.

[ivanisavich]

Thanks for commenting everyone...It's great to hear that you all like it!

[Chanchito]

Man that is solid animation! Very nice weight and good snappy motion!

Good stuff

[Dearmad]

um. Wow, that simply freakin' rocks.

Wow. Again, incredible. A few hours??? Having bred finches and watched birds a LOT, you simply have captured this one perfectly.

The ONLY crit I can come up with is that he seems to have a little too much weight when he lands, and judging by his speed, his velocity can't quite match how far the branch goes down- but that's pushing crits to the most outer limits.

Thanks for sharing that.

Edit: Oh, hey you did that peanut butter blob lego dance anim too, eh? That was hilarious to me- I wanted to see more of that!

[tobiasth]

wow, excellent work! :thumbsup:

[amf3d]

That is amazing ! Congrats ! No crits from me.... and for me, the weight is just fine considering where he lands.

[Joblh]

This is very impressive and realistic! and that in one day:eek:
no crits :applause:

[CGDeniz]

eeerrrrrrrrr....huh?

[agreenster]

dude, are you kidding me? You did all of that in ONE DAY?

I dont believe it. Just modeling it and getting the feathers and fur and everything textured would take at least a day, not to mention rigging and rendering an lighting and...........

If so, then you are very fast at what you do.

And you're only 18?

Bastard.

[vitorvilela]

Yooo!!!
Amazing piece of work my friend!! http://cgtalk.com/images/smilies/bouncy.gif

Everything is great, model, shading, and specially animation! It is REAL!!

Keep rocking!

C-Ya
Vitor Vilela

[ivanisavich]

Surprisingly enough...tweaking the fur on the underbellow took longer than all of the animation :P

Overall it's just a really simple scene....a couple of tweaked splines for the branches (which were deformed with bones)....a low-detail edit-meshed box for the bird's body (covered in fur)....a bunch of textured planes for the wing feathers (which were rigged using 2 bones and weighted orientation constraints so that the wing would open up like a fan)....a couple of bones to deform the bird's body...a couple of spheres for the eyes....a couple of deformed planes for the beak....about a dozen lights....and finally, a little animation to tie it all together.

[fsanimate]

Pretty cool. The branches are way too rubbery especially for ones that short. I would suggest making the whole of the branch move as opposed to such great movement in the one he lands on. A bird that small weighs almost nothing. The fast snaps are great with the feathers, but I think the head moves a bit too slow. Sparrows are like lightning in every move they make. I think the bird looks to weighty on the take off also.

Super animation man. Very well done.

B

[mohamed__]

Tyson, it looks crazy man.. every single aspect of it. http://cgtalk.com/images/smilies/smile.gif

[Dearmad]

Waitaminute... I think he need to update his site... isn't he about 22?

Good lord!

[kr3ml]

Unbelieveble :surprised One day!? :surprised You've inspired me to the death man

[MonteCristo]

Amazinggggggggggggggg!
Very Good Job!

[CoreyJAvitar]

http://cgtalk.com/images/smilies/scream.gif (that's me, screaming.......)

[ivanisavich]

Dearmad: nope...I'm definitely 18 ;)

[ashakarc]

That's one creepy talent you have. Awesome++

best,
ashakarc

[superCuzzo]

great job... that looks real...

[Chanchito]

"Dearmad: nope...I'm definitely 18 ;)"

It just goes to show, some people just have natural talent for this kind of stuff. Again, good job in cranking out that little featherball in such a short amount of time

[c_Hotchkiss]

cool dood


Very Very Close to fooling me, In the right context, entirely believable.

(It was the neck/head) Theres a bird almost exactly like this outside my window, Frequently I watch him. It has even faster movement with stronger holds. Very still holds. If you turned ONE of your poses at the end into a hold, (but keep your textured timing) you would have had me entirely convinced, the wings are impecible, the motion on the branch very very cool. This motion would help keep the scene alive with pwerful still holds.



Ps You got me skeptical: One Day ........ seriously now ..........

[ivanisavich]

Hi c_Hotchkiss,

Thank you for your critique. I believe that in my animation, each head "twitch" happens over only 2 or 3 frames (so I could get that snap)...but I guess (as some of you have suggested), if I dropped the number of transitional frames to none, it would help to simulate the "snap" even better.

Thanks again for your comments everyone! :)

[harmonic01]

dude, are you kidding me? You did all of that in ONE DAY?

I dont believe it. Just modeling it and getting the feathers and fur and everything textured would take at least a day, not to mention rigging and rendering an lighting and...........

If so, then you are very fast at what you do.

And you're only 18?

Bastard.

I totally agree with that.

Great work especialy for one day. :)

[ivanisavich]

Alrighty...here's some stuff that might help to see how the animation was made...

Shaded view of sparrow model:

http://www.theonlyt.com/Main/Animations/Sparrow/sp_shaded.jpg

Shaded+wireframe:

http://www.theonlyt.com/Main/Animations/Sparrow/sp_wires.jpg

Wing-rig video (300k, right-click "save target as") (http://www.theonlyt.com/Main/Animations/Sparrow/sp_wing.mpg)

Animation playblast (600k, right-click "save target as") (http://www.theonlyt.com/Main/Animations/Sparrow/sp_playblast.mpg)

Hope that helps!

Btw...according to the creation and modification dates on the .max files, it took almost exactly 13.5 hours to make, from start to finish. I started at 1:00pm in the afternoon, and finished at 2:30am at night.

[Dearmad]

Gotta post again: this freakin blows me away. It is such fine animation, just looks so real and full of character- like the little bird is actually *thinking!*

Guy can animate the thoughts in bird brains.... what next?

[webhead]

I think I just wet myself! So young, so fast -- so maddening!! Great work, really. The movement was so natural and life-like. A couple questions if I may, young whipper-snapper:

What software?

How long have you been using it?

Where/who/how did you learn to animate/model?

[sula_nebouxi]

Very impressive :)

But yeah, I was going to say that the head movements don't quite have that "snap" that you see in birds, but that's already been posted heh. It's great how you incorporated all the little movements that birds make too. That little tail shake was nicely done. Anyways, well done. :)

[mattmos]

Tyson, great work! Judged the amount of detail needed for the scene down to a 't'. Animation seems pretty darn good to me, can't see any flaws - did you rotoscope this? Its very real...

[ivanisavich]

Howdy, howdy, howdy

Dearmad: Hey man...thanks for all your comments! Very encouraging to say the least. I'm thinking of doing a squirrel next. Possibly some other garden creatures too...like a spider....maybe a chipmunk....I probably won't get any of those done in 1 day...but they'll all be pretty good practice.

webhead: Hey man. The software was 3d Studio Max 7 (scanline renderer)...I've been using it for about 4 years now, and I'm completely self-taught. Because I've recieved no formal training whatsoever (there's really not a whole lot offered in my area), I have been able to get where I am by playing around and making good use of the user manual :D

mattmos: Hey buddy...thanks for habitually replying to all of the animations I post here at cgtalk :thumbsup: ...I respect you a lot and admire your work! As for the anim...no...no rotoskoping or video referencing at all. As mentioned, I did about 20 minutes of outdoor visual observation (and a little bit of notetaking), before heading inside and modelling/animating for the rest of the day.

Thanks for all your support!

[DeathCry]

woah, that looks almost real!!
Cant say more, it brilliant

[chrisWhite]

I was blown away when I saw this, and I've had three or four other people come over thinking that it's real. None of them can believe you did that in a day either :buttrock:

[itsGuido]

incredible stuff man, im not going to crit as im sure you would have picked out prob areas if you spent a lil more than just 1 DAY! haha,
not only does this guy hav talent hes got this crazy underlying passion for the art and it keeps me inspired i luv it!, ya only have to look at his history of projects, ive come across your site before.. i think it was with that rolling guy that jumps on the bike for which you get a nice guy thumbs up :thumbsup:
ya dont need me to tell you to keep it up, so im just gonna wait for more

[erilaz]

That rig... damn. Has this been plugged yet??

[ivanisavich]

Haha...no...ah well. Next one eh ;)

[Dearmad]

Yeah I guess this didn't frontpage because you didn't animate the little mites flying out of his wings as he takes off, or a loose feather coming off, or... -er- breasts... :D

[andy_maxman]

dude, are you kidding me? You did all of that in ONE DAY?

I dont believe it. Just modeling it and getting the feathers and fur and everything textured would take at least a day, not to mention rigging and rendering an lighting and...........

If so, then you are very fast at what you do.

And you're only 18?



i'll spare you the curse Tyson......
let's see more of it......nice website and animations....:thumbsup:

[stilllife27]

:eek: Damn...how u did it...???...i mean..it's really amazing man...really amazing......Great work.....welldone...and keep it up.....really wish if u can give us some tips.

[mrtrashtalk]

Great work. :thumbsup:


One day ?? amazing

[almaghool]

great work :eek:

[ivanisavich]

Tips?

Well....number 1 is always to remember to observe the world around you. How can a painter paint the world around him when he is wearing a blindfold? The same is true for animation...look at how things work and move in real life, before trying to animate them. :thumbsup:

[mimo8]

cannot look at the codec here on a mac ... tried all my players (vlc, qt ...)
too bad, looks promissing

[ROWAN]

are you really eighteen ? are you really human? you made the whole thing in hours .model,texture,rigged,animated in hour . really nice man your work makes me feel ill

[ivanisavich]

Hey mimo: the codec is DivX 5.11 (I'm not sure if that's available for Macs)

Hey Rowan: Haha...no it wasn't made in 1 hour lol :P....it was 1 day ;)

[skull_leader]

freakishly fast and talented. Keep up with the good work.

[Varsha]

Do you have any idea abt how to do this in Maya? the rigging the feathers and all that?

Great job...

[ivanisavich]

Hey Varsha...sorry man...I've never used Maya before. But if you can link an object's orientation to several other object's orientations (and use weights to determine how much influence each parent object has on the child's rotation)...then you're set ;)

[shakii]

S.i.m.p.l.y.A.m.a.z.i.n.g.


:applause:

haha, will definitely follow your work closely!!
Keep up the good work!!

[Drake83]

amazing work, i love it! And in one day!!

[sebastienc]

super realistic

[pecan]

Wow. Really impressive! Downloaded some of the other animations from your site- excellent stuff.

[agreenster]

i'll spare you the curse Tyson......
let's see more of it......nice website and animations....:thumbsup:

No curse intended--just flabbergasted!

Still amazes me that this is one day's work

Nice job

[Heber G Conde]

Hi Ivan,
Really amazing job! The wings are incredible! So is the branch! (i´m not sure if this is the correct name for the "trunk" - that I even not sure what means!) :shrug:

The animation is also great! I´m downloading the videos from your site and so far , I´m very impressed!

You are very fast man!
Great job! Congratulations!

Heber

[JuGGerNauTT]

Completely speechless....... Tyson......, man, you are so completely talented, that you put every single one of us here into shame. Personaly I have spent loads of money on education and it's really frustrating to know that I will perhaps never accomplish what you already have here.

I guess that, no matter what they all say, you just can't buy talent.... Keep up the hard work....

WORLD, you better watch out, a new Directing Animator is born !!! Seriously if you animate like this at 18, I'd venture to say that if you keep this up for the rest of your life, you'll certenly reach a level of mastery, only a handful of people ever accomplished in the world of animation.

Good luck and keep us inspired.

[Remi]

Any chance of seeing a screen of the rig? I'm really interested in how you rigged the wings in particular. Nice work

[ivanisavich]

Thanks for the tremendous encouragement JuGGerNauTT! Now you've given me a name I have to live up to though ;)

Remi: Here's a screenshot of the rig in the viewport. As you can see, it's ridiculously simple.

http://www.theonlyt.com/Main/Animations/Sparrow/sparrow_screen.jpg

Thanks again everyone! It's always encouraging to come back here, see that this thread is still alive, and see that you all like what I've made! :scream:

[cgclay]

Wow, great work. Very impressive animation, especially for 1 days work. You definitely have a bright future in animation. Keep up the good work, I really enjoy everything you've done

[arLutiK]

Tyson, dear friend I tought I'd drop a line



:bowdown::bowdown::bowdown::bowdown::bowdown:

[arneltapia]

Simple but impressive! i love it!

[NicNac]

Of my first year of 3dmaxing, I have never seen something so real. I hat is off to u. I am very curious as how u did your branches... How did you add so much detail in them? Did you use some kind of displacement?

[IestynRoberts]

......waw!

[Dave3D]

:thumbsup: that really cool, the motion is perfect, hehe nice lipsync too

Dave

[mickatt]

very realistic work and impressive animation

[yoa010]

Good Work.

[HenningK]

Brilliant. Well-observed. A beautiful piece.
If I had to make critique, it would be that the branches are too rubbery.
love,hen

[OptimusDinkus]

man tyson, be thankfull that your not out of highschool yet, cause I think people will go after blood when you apply for work, just great stuff. And dont take the spare time you have in highschool for granted nether, nor after cause it will bite you in the ass later.

[AJ]

Why in the name of all that's good in the World has this not been plugged... :scream:

It's absolutely marvellous and in 13.5 hours from scratch... just gobsmacking!

If you're charging your freelance out on an hourly rate I seriously hope you charge a shitload.

You're an inspiration!

:D

[SheepFactory]

*plugged

Great stuff Tyson , goes to show that simple is better.

[alexyork]

absolutely stunning... stuggling hard to find anything to crit here!

[Lystmaler]

I really like this bird. The whole thing look so natural, I really have to say that you didn't fail to amaze me.

[Dearmad]

FINALLY on the front page. About time. Plenty of lesser stuff has been there lately...

[jdsb]

hohaaaaaaaa hoha :eek:

[jdsb]

ok i am feeling better,this is simply stunning,simply aaaargh,the pain:scream::thumbsup::buttrock::argh::cry::banghead:

[MMuster]

Whew, awesome work. The only little thing you could optimise is the branch which springs like rubber in some way. But this has been mentioned before.
Besides this animation is very beautiful. :thumbsup: Keep it up.

[YoYoYohan]

Now you made me jealous. it looks wonderfull!

may i ask???
How many years did it take you to reach this skills for 3d modeling?

[monovich]

really cool animation, and well done. I agree with a previous post about the branch looking a bit like a noodle when it moves... but I'm sure you could have fixed it with a second day's work. ha ha.

hey, what was that track you used for the dancing peanut butter?

-s

[Iotrez]

1 day!!

Thats amazing.

Do u work at this level of intensity everyday.

[Neil]

I rarely comment on front page work, but this is really nice. Very simple and very well executed. Compares nicely to all these "sketch of the weeks" we see on the front. Goes to show how much a simple real life animation can be successful.
For the longest time I wanted to do a bird pecking around at food on the ground and flying away, but never got around to it. You really nailed it quite nicely.

I am not a fan of the blurred background. It doesn't really fit in terms of colors and is VERY blurred.

[Slurry]

We're all going to be working for this guys some day...:eek:
I'm going to need some help picking my jaw up off the floor here guys...anyone? A little help here...?
That is sick!
Way to go!

Art

[ivanisavich]

THANK YOU FOR THE PLUG! That just made my day :)

Hey Optimus: Well I'm not in highschool anymore ;)...just finished my first year of college...but still young I guess!

Hey AJ: Well....not a huge amount of money yet....haven't gotten enough work yet to be able to say that I'm an experience freelancer and be able to charge what I want...(future employers: please don't read this next sentence)...The day will come though...boy will it come! :D Haha...jokes.

Hi YoYoYohan: Been doing 3d for about 4 years...but in the early years it was very on/off...so I'd say (taking into consideration some long breaks I took) about 3.

As for the branch: Thank you for your critiques! I agree that it does look very rubbery...and I'll probably go back and fix that some day...not yet though...13.5 hours in a row was enough for me to work on that scene for the next LONG while...haha...

Anyways...once again, I'm honoured that I've been plugged, and really appreciate everyone taking the time to comment!

*edit*: as for the blurry background...well.....I did that mainly to save me the hassle of having to model a background....the focus was animation so I wasn't too worried about what was happening behind the bird :)

[loocas]

In one day?! And I thought I was fast :D Man, this is really beautiful! Awesome job dude! http://www.cgtalk.com/images/rating/rating_5.gif from me :buttrock:

[jjburton]

I just don't know what to say man...cut that into a sequence and most of the crits I have would disappear. I'd agree with most of what has been said crit wise, but a great accomplishment for such a short deadline. Love the bird wing rig. Reminds me of Johnny Gordon's from last year of the cartoony bird. VERY nice execution.:thumbsup:

[JAF]

I hope you'll take off like your bird. :bounce: Great job, i really like it.

5 stars for me too, just IMHO.
Keep it up ;)

[Konoku]

Very nice work on the animation portion!, and overall scene.

[AVIATION1]

This is amazing!

Cute little birdy :)

Five stars from me!

Q: How can you do the animation of the tree? I mean is that rigged up with bones or something?

[DuttyFoot]

man thats just amazing....so realisitc...i have watched sparrows before and you really have the movement down

[archerx]

congrats on the front page plug Tyson, can't wait to see your next short ;)

[Dr. Ira Kane]

sweeeeet :D

[CharleyBoy]

WOW!!

Nice Rigg too!!

[MDR]

Wow!......That has to be one of the best pieces of animation i've ever seen, the level of detail is amazing,the animation is just flawless i cant believe it's cg at a glance it looks like real life. Truely an amazing feet for just one days work, you have some solid skills.

[jamihn]

I love how simple the whole setup and modeling seems and how realistic the end result looks. This is a perfect example of CG giving the impression of reality. Brilliance in simplicity! I love it!

[SteveNewport]

This is really great dude, very impressive. Looks completely natural

[-KDX-]

don't know if I commented yet, but this is amazing.

even if it was a week long work, it would be front page, top notch material...but the fact that you did it in a day is what kills me...sickens me even..good job!

-KDX-

[arLutiK]

Tyson dear friend


You are a star now :applause:

[PBlades]

Nicest animation i've seen in a long time, great work.

[Naughty]

Its youst lovley

[Deadtown_Ripper]

That's really amazing mate! You captured the nervous, flitting energy of little birds like that perfectly. Very insipirational to see results like that in such a short time.

I seriously doubt anyone outside the CG community would be able to pick that it isn't a real scene filmed from life - keep up the fantastic work!

[object]

awsome, inspiring animation, reminds me of Audubon films from when I was younger.

[Ducimus]

Amazing. Top Notch.

Cheers.

[XYZRGB]

Completely speechless....... Tyson......, man, you are so completely talented, that you put every single one of us here into shame. Personaly I have spent loads of money on education and it's really frustrating to know that I will perhaps never accomplish what you already have here.

I guess that, no matter what they all say, you just can't buy talent.... Keep up the hard work....

WORLD, you better watch out, a new Directing Animator is born !!! Seriously if you animate like this at 18, I'd venture to say that if you keep this up for the rest of your life, you'll certenly reach a level of mastery, only a handful of people ever accomplished in the world of animation.

Good luck and keep us inspired.

I agree entirely.

Major, major respect.

Also you web site is a must see as well. The animations actually had me laughing ( something that I rarely do for an animation. ) :thumbsup:

[ivanisavich]

Thank you thank you! The response I've been getting from this is phenomenal! :bounce:

Deadtown_Ripper: Haha...when I showed my dad he absolutely didn't believe it was animation at first....normally he doesn't pay much attention to my work but this one had him in disbelief ;)...I guess my mission was a success!

[franklyn]

yea yea yea just dont let it get to your head.

[lamarvisions]

Really well done man.Exceptional effort.:thumbsup: :thumbsup:

[petertan]

hehe yeah i agree with franklyn not to let all of this praise get to your head. But man you've got talent. I've visited your site and i love all the animation you got there. What i've noticed is that most of the stuff you do is physical animation. Thought of doing more acting stuff? That freedom clip had some nice acting...would love to see more man!
Did you use character studio or did you rig the chars on your own?

-pete-

[Jaycee77]

Wow...that is simply amazing work there,great job.

[ivanisavich]

Haha Frank...from the3dstudio.com to here, you always gotta be causin trouble. :P

[adren@line]

Dude,

Im sure there are bunch of us who want to know exactly HOW you did all of that in one day.

Perhaps, if you had the time, you could put togethor a tutorial in how to make this project, as im sure there are dozens of us who are curious to know what your workflow is like.

Maybe even CGTALK could feature it, but i guess you'd have to talk to one of the admins about that.

The fact that you did this all in one day makes it even more unbelievable.

[ivanisavich]

Hi adren@line,

That's definitely an idea...as I've noticed that a lot of people have wanted to know how I did it.

But I think a tutorial (even if it were in-depth) would be a bit disappointing. There was no magical technique put into practice...and the scene was actually really easy to setup.

As you can see from my previous posts, the model was ridiculously simple, and the rig was simple as well (even the wing rig, which only took about 20 minutes to set up from scratch...starting from trial-and-error, having never tried anything like that before).

The animation was also really simple. I didn't block it out or do thumbnails or storyboards or pre-planning. I just sat down, and animated it from start to finish, adding secondary motion as I went along.

Also, the lighting setup was super easy too. Just a few omnis and Max's standard Scanline renderer.

Finally, the scene setup was about as basic as it gets too. Just a couple of splines (turned into editable meshes and tweaked for roughness, then rigged with a few bones), and a blurred map in the background. No DOF was used, I simply applied a "blur" render effect to the twigs in the foreground to give the illusion of depth and scale.

All in all, the animation consists only of some very fundamental principles put into practice, and is something that anyone with a basic sense of weight and timing could do.

:)

[greenj2]

Truely amazing man. Not only the quality of everything but also the fact you made it in one day. My only crit would be that the branch he takes off from seems a bit too rubbery, but that's just me being pedantic. Great work! :applause:

[dcmoutinho]

amazing !!!:eek:
the bird until it seems that it is real.

congratulations:applause:

[Deletedaccount]

Hey, that's realy amazing work! I just looks so, real :eek:

And like adren@line said, a tutorial will be nice :thumbsup:
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[emiliew]

Holy crap I think I just shat myself. One freakin day!! Is this for real an 18 yr. old did this.........NO FREAKIN WAY! And that's coming from someone who works in the business. So you say you are in college.....how can they teach you anything? If you keep this pace up by the time you graduate you should not just be an animator, (even if it is Pixar), you should go for the gold baby........director (or start your own animation company)! The scary thing is your website has animations that actually made me laugh!........that almost never happens. I hope you stay humble, however, but geesh your website is sick........at 18!

[mehdianim]

Wow no comment. Especially for one day's worth of work...
respek!

[Lique]

I bet you've made yourself famous in 1 day !!! :thumbsup:

Thanks for sharing the simple techinques, very inspiring. Keep posting good work man! :)

btw 5 stars of course, I would have given 6 if possible!!!

[attune]

Let me start off by saying, excellent work. Very very nice. I am thoroughly impressed. Ok then... the branch. Looks like it's made of rubber. The branch should bend a little but mostly from that angle it will bounce from the bottom to the top of the frame without so much play in the shorter branches. When the bird takes off, he has a little hang before he leave the branch. I've noticed that those type of birds, and small birds in general (with the exception of maybe humming birds) tend to pitch themselves forward off of the branch and leap, opening the wings shortly after take off. I am sure there is more, but these are the ones that stood out immediately. Great work. You have a promising future. =)

[sKullzao]

:bowdown: :bowdown: :bowdown: :bowdown: :bowdown: :bowdown:

ur simply amazing, we see all those big project that takes months, and u there in 13 hours made something that showed u talent very well!!!

Looking foward for more animation from you.

[ivanisavich]

Haha...well...funny thing is, I'm not actually going to school for animation! I just finished a year of Bible college, and am waiting for Ryerson University to send out their admissions for their film course.

Turns out that my 2d portfolio (which basically consists of nothing) isn't strong enough to get me into any traditional animation courses around here (Sheridan's, for example), and I can't afford to ship myself off to another country for expensive 3d animation courses (there aren't really any around here)....so it looks like I'm either going to be studying film and doing 3d as a hobby (don't get me wrong...I still LOVE 3d and animation), or will be working for a year and continuing my 3d hobby (if I don't get accepted).

Anyways...that's my life story ;) Haha...wish me luck with my acceptances!

[budakterbang]

wow.. i really like it when the bird touch the branch.. looks very natural.. :D

[petertan]

Hey Tyson,

Going to an animation school will definitely be great, you'll learn the foundations and fundamentals and i have no doubt you'll be one of the top students in your course. But if for some weird x-files reason you don't get accepted (God forbid) I think you'll still have no problems getting a job in this industry. A lot of ppl have the education and yrs of experience and still wouldn't be able to do what you do. Trust yourself man, you can even start sending your cv and portfolio to big studios, you'll get their attention.

-pete-

[Pi3141]

Holy shit that's good.

Seeing this kind of work makes me want to animate. Then I realise I suck with timing, weight transfer and have the patience of a watermelon :cool:



Killer work man, love it :thumbsup:

[kleinluka]

Awesome work, dude.

I checked the rest of your gallery and I'm very very impressed.

[andronikos916]

amazing - super work for 1 day...nothing to say I feel like quiting 3d!

[jscheel]

Great work! I think that the parts that could be critiqued, already have been, so I'll leave it at that. BTW, how did you achieve the handcranked feel to your machineflesh flythrough?

[triayami]

what a animation amazing stuff
Thanks for posting man
can u plz post a High rez Still frame for my wallpaper ;)

Plzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
thanks
Prashant
:thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup:

[emiliew]

Dont get me wrong Sheridan is a fine school.....buttttttt.....you could teach all the courses there in 3D. In fact, I showed your work to the head animation director here and he nearly flipped his lid. If they dont accept you they should be condemned for stupidity. hahahahahaha As well, with your eyes of focus you could learn the 2D skills pretty quickly I would think. Why dont you take a few figure, sculpture or painting courses at the local college and build up your 2D portfolio. You might look around for scholarship oppurtunities. I think what's so phenomenal about your work is your quality in all areas of 3D is strong. Many times we see great modelers and texture artists that have no animation skills and vice versa. You have both......rare indeed. In fact, I would be willing to gamble that it's the first 3D piece that could merit front page as a still or animation.

[Shadowkiller]

...and the earth was created in 7 days.

[kuoseph]

absolutely sick!

amazing....

[mauves]

Can't we give this guy two awards?



Hats off, best work I've seen in a long time here on CGtalk.



cheers

[akin]

in one day? brillant

[Georgie]

Top class work! Although the bird's eyes (looks like plastic buttons) and the branches (too "fluid") might need some improvements, it's an amazing work of art indeed. Most impressed with your exceptionally perfect duplication of a sparrow's movement!

[seb4d]

Excellent work !
But ONE day ! I can't believe it man !!

[steverage]

Not a lot more to add, just to say thats some damned fine work there mate, well done.

[francomanko]

excellent work..especially the transition from flying to perching , lovely.

[squeezestudio]

thats a really great job you've done on this clip. The aniamtion look nice and real , timing are great and the texture and rendering are perfect .... wow !

[Monster_General]

What the hell ? :shrug: ... How you made that ? :shrug:

I am not understand from animations but You are very good on it ... Keep up this :beer:

[aydinu]

Amazing work and inspiring to all of use for sure :)

Cheers

Aydin

[glassefx]

YOU see almost everything...

Very well trained eyes you have. It's almost perfect which NEVER happens with CG.... Even the high-dollar stuff! The only thing wrong with it is the branches do look too "rubbery" when they are effected by the bird's weight release. Also the bird's last little neck movments before he flies off... For some reason that ques my eye as duplicated... Maybe just one direction/one twitch but his head does kinda a "double-take" with one direction. Its like the birds checking something out before he flies off but it does'nt translate well. Maybe more of a little pause before he flights off?

Dude I'm really impressed and I'm gonna add some more layers to my animation tonight. Thanks for the "inspiration."

Top-Notch here guys...:buttrock:

[ivanisavich]

Hey everyone!

Just so ya'll know....I went and fixed the branch shaking, tweaked the look of the bird's eye, and sped up some of the head movements! I'll be posting the re-rendered version soon, for your critiquing pleasure ;)

Thanks for your support, otherwise I would have just left it and it would only have been 90% completed :thumbsup:

edit: btw....Squeeze! My man! I LOVE your stuff....the furry little mouse is one of my favourite 3d characters of all time :D ...thanks for dropping by!

[gagn]

My only advice is to stiffen the branch. Otherwise very, very good work.

cheers,
Gabriel

[DickBoot]

i am speechless.....euhh WOW!!!

[Turbonium]

/me is depressed and impressed.

[tel]

:bounce: F-A-N-T-A-S-T-I-C!

[dharmabum]

Yo! He's from the TDot as well! What's shaking fellow Canadian? Great stuff! Putting me and my 8 years of experience to shame bro. You're going to have to tell people your process in the way you work otherwise people are just not going to believe that you did it in 1 day. Even industry professionals like myself can't do that. Then again never tried.

How about a challenge hear on CGtalk to see what other people can do in that time and that quality.

Brilliant my friend.

[snovak]

Really very good.. everything.. I checked out your site. You are very observant and have a ton of talent to boot. Good luck to you in whatever you do.

[Ravix]

I wish i discover 3d when i was in my puberty :p good job! :thumbsup:

[Sniffet]

Hey Tyson, I don't think I ever replied on any work posted on cgtalk before. But in your case I can't shut up :) Your work is truly excellent executed in every way. The model/texture has this nice subtle blend, that just made it look truly lifelike. And the animation is extremly well done!! Just the bird rig in itself is a very good "one day" job.. Hats off!

/Regards Peter K (AM week6.. Bouncing balls... balls... balls... balls....)

[Aedilhum]

Great work! Can't say anything that hasn't been said, look forward to the re-rendered version...yeah those eyes bugged me too.
Great stuff on your site too, keep it up.

[leho]

sweet mother of 3D. thats too real :|

[CuneytGuclu]

That is real or animation? Haah man...:thumbsup:

[TimMehmet]

Hey man I just wanna say Im a real fan of your work, Iv checked out everything on ya site and I love it all to bits. I'm only a begginer in the animating department but I can really appreciate the skill it takes to achieve stuff like this.
Woo go you

[DerPapa]

in one day! holy shit! This is one of the best "one day stuff" I've ever seen, man!

one day.....

cheers
Michael

....one day...

[Spc]

WoW so amazing real.
Flawless.

:eek:

[Djampa]

WOW holly S__-T!
Da_N

1 Day???
Awesome.
:thumbsup:

But there is something, I am a very anoying person in animation... the bird head should move a lil bit faster I think so, there is something slow on the timming there and I can't really see it, just feel, I keep watching birds all the time, altough you made the movement perfect, did u use a reference?

It is superb, specially because you did it in 1 day... oh... my... :buttrock:

[formoso]

very good for 1 day man. i agree the head is too slow but the wings are pretty amazing. The branches of course are too soft but somehow i like it that way even tho its not realistic. id say leave it as it is.

[SamAdam]

that, is, incredible.

the branch is a little too soft at the end, it seems to bend, it should sway.

i am sure you won't read this, but so much for that.

maybe i will get really good in the next year.

[XYZRGB]

Your stuff made me severly depressed all of yesterday.
But now ... i'm back . This time with questions :
I notice every animation that you have done has music that is perfect for the piece.

Where do you get your sound clips from ?
( It would have taken me a full 14 hours just to find music.)

Where do you get your humour from ?
( Do you brainstorm with other people, or do you just have a 'gift' of comedy as well ? )

Are you exceptionally smart ? ( Photographic memory, ... that sort of thing )
( C'mon ...I need an excuse )

You say you just learned the program on your own without schooling. Did you team up with friends to learn the program or did you just 'absorb' it on your own ?

You had a lot of encouragement as a kid didn't you ( wait a minute ... you still are a kid :scream: )
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CGTalkers : This guys little sparrow animation is impressive, but what I was most impressed with were the animations on his site. Check it out.

[msouza]

Astonish ! Really impressed with the quality delivered in one day. You are now able to work in Brazil. :) Our Deadlines are VERY tight like that. lol !

Could you show your process doing this animation in such tight time ? The Feathers are Feathers or some trick ?

[retsbabe]

wow, very nice!:thumbsup:

[plug5]

Greate job.

how to setup spreading feather use to three bone link?
i wonder how to setup.

[adren@line]

dude... tutorial..

shit ill even pay for it!

[B-rad]

Man this is the second clip on this site that has blown me away.. I better get to work Im falling behind on the skills. Very nice work!! :bowdown:

[ivanisavich]

Hi Vegan,


Where do you get your sound clips from ?


My music, I mostly take from a Royalty Free Music cd I have. It's really handy for times like this (when I have a short animation that needs music) because it's got hundreds of different songs for every occasion :)


Where do you get your humour from ?


Humour? ;)


Are you exceptionally smart ?


Hahaha! Far from it! I just love 3d, so I work at it with a passion. But...my room is always messy, I don't wear a pocket protector, and I don't know all 57 (? ;)) states...so I'm definitely not "exceptionally smart"!


Did you team up with friends to learn the program or did you just 'absorb' it on your own


Haha...I wish! None of my friends are interested in cg animation....all my "teammates" consist of people like you, on forums like this :D

[Room335]

In the word of Frank Romano "Holy Crap!" That is exceptional!


How'd you do that?

[ivanisavich]

Ok...here's a bit of a re-worked version.

As you can see, the branch is much more rigid now, the highlight on the eye is a bit sharper, and a couple of the head twitches have been compressed by a few frames.

Sparrow Update (1.8mb, DivX) (http://www.theonlyt.com/Main/Animations/sparrow_fix.avi)

Lemme know if I went in the right direction!

[taverns3]

fixed.

you went in the right direction... and here i thought you weren't going to go near this piece for a while.
and i can't believe your friends aren't into 3D, but now that i think of it neither are mine, excluding the ones from school.

cheers, D

[Dan Shores]

I'm still learning Max 7.0 so I'm sorry if this question is simple. How did you get your feathers to spread properly with just one bone? Also, what fur plugin did you use for your feathers?

[koyimaold]

nothing to crit, everything has been said and taken care of

u are really good and u should continue in this way,cos if u don't, work starts messing around with what u want to do...when weekends and all ur freetime will be spent away from 3dsmax

that's all i have to say, keep it up

[DrFx]

WoW! Only crit I can think of is the branch being too soft, kinda rubbery. Otherwise, truly impressive! And ONE DAY?!? You da man!!!
Edit: Hadn't seen the fix! Now it's perfect! *****!!!

[Dreamzsguy]

Awsome it looks real,nice work dude

[jojanson]

Awesome!! Very good!!

[sekocan]

woww
I I I I can't believe
it's real....
first video was really good and this last video (you have fixed the branch I think) it is excellent
it's really good
it's ......
wow

[formoso]

on second look i found somthing to crit (from your updated version) right before the bird takes off it moves its head down and to its left. i think to much of the body moves with it, i might be wrong but birds make a similar motion which isnt quite what you have. i think if the head rotated rather than moved it would seem more natural. when they look at something below they crank there neck rather than resituating the body to compensate. just a thought.

[ivanisavich]

Great! I'm glad the fixed version of the branch works for all of you! :D

Hey formoso, thanks for picking that up about the bird....it's a good point you make. Buuuut...I probably won't touch it up again, because I'm tired of waiting 14 hours for the sequence to render :P...but if I do any other birds in the future, I'll keep that in mind! :scream:

[formoso]

no worrys man i feel the pain :P. i think this should stay as a 1 day peice anyways its totally wicked work under those constraints.

[jdsb]

the new clip is even better:applause:http://www.cgtalk.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

[mhinks]

So good, its taken me a couple of hours to regather myself and post!

Really like it, Id never have guessed it was done with scanline. And your website has a lot of very good work. I have the gift.

[NicNac]

I'm serious you're gonna have to tell me how you make your branches or I will sh!t my pants! How did you make them so real? Did you use displacement? CMON help me out :P

[NicNac]

OoooooooooOooooo, your revised branch is official "perfect" :D

[Chats]

incredible.... especially for 1 day

i downloaded your other animations from your website, they are hilarious!

...i especially like the dancing peanut butter blob

keep up the good work!

[rrobert]

Simple concept, yet an amazing result ! :thumbsup: Very good work.

Cheers...

[rquinn]

HOLY MOTHER OF PEARLS
that is noice

the modeling could use some brushing up but man unbelievable you did that in one day
i want a friggin tutorial from beginning to end!
I WOULD PAY!

[ivanisavich]

Hmmm....that makes two people who have offered to pay for a tutorial...

*rubs chin*

[AJ]

I'll pay you to rub your chin!

Wait... damn!

[rquinn]

haha
hes thinking is he

[ivanisavich]

Hi NicNac,

The branches are splines which were then converted to editable meshes.

Once they were meshes, I tweaked their shape and added a noise modifier to them, to give them a bit of roughness.

Finally, I applied a texture to them which included bump and displacement. I had to give the branches a few extra smooth iterations with Meshsmooth, so that the detail from the displacement map would be (somewhat) visible (since I wasn't using any fancy micro-triangle displacement system).

FINALLY, I also scattered some green objects (small spheres, with only a few primitive segments, which were then given a noise modifier) over the branches, to give the illusion of fungus/tiny-leaves (using the "Scatter" compound object).

That's about it ;)

[geis]

amazing work nice texturing :thumbsup:

[Coolrider64n]

Thats VERY well done. I cant belive you did that in a day. Nice work. That would of taken me at least a week just for the tree.

[Tombed]

Wonderful theme! :bounce: You really captured the motion. Not meaning that I think you used MOCAP:D The bit where the bird lands and folds it's feathers is so realistic. They do it so quickly that you can't really see it happening, I don't know how you did it! My only criticism is that the last head movements before he takes off are a bit slow, not quite as snappy as I'd expect a real bird to be. The take off is amazing. The oily appearance of the feathers is perfect. And all done in one day with scanline rendering? Unbelievable!!!

[Juzz]

What can I say?
Sweet.

[krazed]

..............:eek:

[mikeyb3]

Quite impressive. I'd love to see some screenshots of models/rig. Too bad it wasnt longer.:) I have nothing to add but praise. It was like, "I want to see more" then it was over. Excellent work! Keep that stuff coming!:thumbsup:

[frameboX]

Its just amazing how exactly you got the details in movement and timing! Congrats, really impressive!

[rnb2]

Really, really impressive!

I'm a bit of a bird nut, and you really nailed the behavior and motion. The only crit I have, and it's a minor one, is that the takeoff is a bit too slow - we have a bird feeder in our livingroom window, and I'm always amazed how instantaneous the takeoff is. They are there, and then they're gone - literally "blink and you miss it" stuff.

Overall though, a really fine piece of work, and the fact that you did it in a day tells me everything I need to know about why I gave up animation about 18 months ago :)

Rick

[IanE]

That's an amazing piece of work. My classmates and I here in BCIS2 thought it was real film...

And for just 1 day's work... incredible. Congratulations. Awesome work.

Ian

[ivanisavich]

Hi everyone,

Several people have asked to see the model/rig....so as a reminder....don't forget to check the screenshots that I posted in this thread earlier! (I believe on page 2 or 3) :)

[aRTCy]

Where the hell are you finding yours sounds and music? That's quality stuff!!

[eliment]

Qualitatively!!!!!!!!

[SpiritWalker]

amazing! really amazing!

if i may ask, where did you learn from? my biggest frustration (this question is actualy towards anyone who can help me) is where i can get learning material, anything you can recommend? i work in maya though.

[86point5]

Very nice work.

As I was running it a couple of times to watch it, the family cat jumped up on the chair to take a look. Seems like maybe you fooled him too. :)

[Stevejjd]

This is breathtaking. I watched this several times through. Honestly its one of the most amazing animations I have ever seen.

[Link_DX]

Amazing animation man. It really blows me away that you're 18 and you did all that in one day. On the other hand there's me who's 17 and not even close to your talent. I gotta get cracking.

[Okan]

ok, show the bird with mocap suit :P

[nsnaveen]

AWSOME work

gr8 timing and animation.

[satkoski27]

The last update to the branch really works.

Any school that turns you down is going to be missing out.

[LuisNCT]

One day?? :eek:

It's great! Too much life sensation

[APD-Jack]

Holy Rig maaan!! This is awesome!! It's looks realy natural. I didn't read whole replies, but i understand why it takes 15 pages replies :)
Congratulations
Keep good working :thumbsup:

[tawfiq]

i do not know what to say about this animation
but just is say oh my god

how could you do this in one day its amazing
good luck
tawfiq

[Cararan]

I'm sorry to have brought this thread back from the dead. But I most say that’s an incredible piece of work there. And the fact that you did this in one day. Oh My Goooodesss.

[PETER HUYCK]

it is wonderful, I think it is a wonderful work.

[bloggs]

man when it first saw this i thought 1 day yeah right! this guy has to be joking. but now that i see how you did it! I definatly beleave ya. i think the thing i like the best is the fact that you have come up with something really simple but its executed so well that its concincing. man that a good skill to have. the animation looks fine. makes me want to get back into doing more winged creatures.

i wish i could say some of my work was done in a day!


any more birds on the way? bird are somthing i reall want ot get to do more as they are a nice challanging rigging exersize. i used the same oriention constarints method on one of my projects.

well done:thumbsup:


cheers


john

[Norl]

It takes a veteran to complete this short in a day with high quality modeling and texturing plus a realistic animation so it is no surprise that this is a masterpiece. Excellent work!

[Norl]

I went to your website and I am surprised that you are just 18 years old with no formal education or training in 3D animation/visual effects, a self-starter. Good enough to produce a remarkable work like this and especially the short film The Beast Within, (though the directing needs some improvement but high score for its 3D/effects)! Salutations! I highly recommend that you pursue this passion in a school like Vancouver Film School, Academy of Arts University, San Franscisco, etc. for example. I see you having no problem getting even a 3D intern/job between classes then. I also welcome more 3D learning resources at your site. You are certainly on your way to become another Carlos Baena and other greats to work even in ILM or Pixar!

[Lamster]

Hey man! Hats off to you! It's great! I'd give it 6 stars :D

[herbertV399]

You are using very well reference videos.
I see a combination between rotoscoping and keying. Very good action/reaction on landiing, and wing movement. Some issues with head movement.
In overall very good work.

[ivanisavich]

Hi herbert,

No rotoscoping or video references were used. All of the animation came right out of my head ;)

[3d Magic]

I somehow could'nt tell if its a CG Animation or normal video recording. Could you please mention few pointers for wings/feather setup. It looks very natural and also how you did the rig which works pretty well.

[Quaint Data]

Well, it being spring here and all...I thought I'd take a break from regular humanoid characters and animate something that I've never tried before.

So...I sat down yesterday and observed some little sparrows fluttering around in some trees. Then I figured that they'd do just fine for subject matter ;)

Long story short....after several hours of toying around, here's the animation I have to show:

http://www.theonlyt.com/Main/Animations/sparrow.avi (1.8mb, DivX...watch it with sound!)

***EDIT***...here's a "fixed" version, which features a more rigid branch, and some tweaking of othe things :D

http://www.theonlyt.com/Main/Animations/sparrow_fix.avi (1.8mb, DivX)

***

http://www.theonlyt.com/Main/Animations/sparrow.jpg

Everything (from modelling, to texturing, to animation, etc) was done in 1 day. It was rendered with the Scanline Max renderer, and sound effects were added (as usual) in Adobe Premiere.

Lemme know what you think!
:applause:
Your truely gifted. Awsome realism. Can't wait to see what is next.

[xtetra]

fantastic motion! So realisitc it looks as if you had a sparrow cooperate and wear little avian mo-cap suit for you. Very Impressive!

[ivanisavich]

Hehe...looks like this thread got hit with the defibulators again ;)

Thanks for the extra comments :)

Quaint Data: Did you happen to see my spider/fly or ladybug threads? :D

[israelyang]

Tyson
Very very good work indeed.
Are you applying to Ryerson in Toronto? They do have a very good film program.

[ivanisavich]

Hi israelyang,

Although I applied to both York and Ryerson this year (got accepted to York for film, but was declined by Ryerson), I took a job here in Minneapolis (before I recieved my York acceptance) instead ;)

[Leon.S.Ken]

I like it! very impressive !
nice model!

[norman365]

All I can say is well done.

every thread you post just makes it more amazing to me...(one day,no planning, rig in 20 minutes and straight ahead?!)

the only question I have left is do you have any tips for improving the sharpness of someone's observational skills?

[ivanisavich]

Hi norman....here's a good thing to do when observing things (particularly animals).....watch each part of it (or whatever it is) separately as it moves, and note how/why the part moves the way it does.

So for example, for my bird animation...I went outside and checked out some sparrows and watched how their tail feathers moved, then how their heads moved, then how their wings moved etc etc....concentrating on each part separately and individually. My sparrow animation is far from being totally realistic.....but doing that type of observation made it that much better than it probably would have been otherwise.

Hope that helps :)

[norman365]

cool advice Tyson, definitely take it up.:thumbsup:

btw, just about to have a go at your tutorial on secondary motion, going to watch the movies in the galleries as well!

[ivanisavich]

Cool! Thanks :)

[Norl]

This sparrow clip should be your only demo reel needed to apply to major top-notch studios. Work for a while to save up and gain experience as well as improve on your drawings to go to any great CG school you want. All the best! :)

[Lfx]

This is on my PSP now :thumbsup:
Thanks for the animation!

[syndrome]

dude thats so good!
the movements look really realistic
nice job

[Vinu]

Amazing peice of work!
Though it took a little time to load the avi, its WORTH WAITING!

Congrats.
Vinu

[Bluder]

...So for example, for my bird animation...I went outside and checked out some sparrows and watched how their tail feathers moved, then how their heads moved, then how their wings moved etc etc....

so your saying its not rotoscop? am find this hard to belive, either way its brilliant.

[ivanisavich]

No it's not rotoscoped. No video refs either. Just a bit of observation and my memory :)

[daesup]

I can't believe this is CG. Just perfect!

[jussing]

(sorry to revive an oldie, but I just stumbled on this awesome piece)

Animation, texturing and lighting is all perfect and amazing. :thumbsup:

A crit though, is the rendering of the textures - I see a lot of flickering, propably due to sampling problems, which makes the bird and the branches look CG. I'm no Maya user, but In Max I would solve the problem by turning on supersampling.

Cheers,
- Jonas

[ivanisavich]

Hey Jonas, thanks for dropping by!

Yeah....supersampling and turning up the shadow map size would definitely have helped with that....good point :)

[rblitz7]

Thats great man!!:scream: I love it!:) Explain to me how you got the bird to fly away so perfectly.

[Firefox]

Hey thats awesome man... specially considering you finished all that in 1 day.... man thats GOODD!!!:buttrock:

I saw your other animations also... they look really coooll

Keep up the good work

Cheers

[sainte7777]

i must tell u man, blown away! i was not expecting that kind of beauty because i don't look at animations much, but great motion, detail and atmosphere (love that tune) only crit: the eye of the bird doesn't look as detailed as the rest of it's body, more shiny and a tad metallic, but other than that nit-pick, great piece of work!

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