Animation short: "Bicho"

[eric-s]

tried but cant download.
how long is that movie?
maybe reduce it to 4-5 mb ?

[Enrique Gato]

To download just click on the links. Don't try to rightclick and save, it doesn't work. The server doesn't support getright or gozilla, so don't use them if you want to get the animations.

[Obraxis]

Absolutly WONDERFUL! Inspired work!

Your animation/camera work/lighting/style is just great! :thumbsup:

How long did this take you to complete? And which proggy? And what kind of system did u do this on?

Great work! :airguitar

[lildragon]

I absolutely love animations that can speak without words, this was very well done and had a nice twist there at the end very very nice indeed. Although I would've recommended more 'snappy' timing, I grew to like the aliens movements this way.

I plugged it both here and http://www.3dfestival.com

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salud

[dies-irae]

AMAZING!!:eek::eek:
really good job!
i really dig the atmosphere!

would you care to give us some tech info?

[Namroth]

What software?
How long time?

Can you give oss some info?

[Johnlittle]

I cannot see it. it says server has internal error? I have never had this problem with this machine before. Is it just me? :surprised :hmm:

[Enrique Gato]

Thank you very much for all your comments, I'm really glad you like the short.

I spent about a year making it in my spare time. The software I used is 3d Studio Max 4, Combustion and Adobe Premiere.

If you enter in http://www.3dluvr.com/gato and click on the animations section you'll find some extra info about the short that you'd probably like to know.

Thanks again

[Jimmy(Taiwan)]

so cool
I love this character:bounce: :thumbsup:
but I cant download this avi.........

[Enrique Gato]

For all those people who can't download the avi, please try enter directly to my web: www.3dluvr.com/gato, go to the animations section and try to download it from that page.

[moroten]

Trying to download, but it's painfully slow... Could someone please mirror it somewhere?

-Daniel

[edaddy]

been waiting on this download forever - this animation better be like. .. an hour long. . . . . . . or just really, really good

[Agraba]

My download stopped for the third time now.
Better find an alternate host.

[Obraxis]

Im uploading the high-res one to my site. If Bicho doesnt want me to, then I will remove it. I just feel as many people should see his work. GREAT work.

URl soon.

[Enrique Gato]

Originally posted by Obraxis
Im uploading the high-res one to my site. If Bicho doesnt want me to, then I will remove it. I just feel as many people should see his work. GREAT work.

URl soon.

Thanks Obraxis. Sorry but I have no other server to upload the short. Sorry for all the problems to download it. If I get other site I'll tell you.

[kr3ml]

3 h and 10 min remaining 3,5 kb / s :hmm:

[Obraxis]

Ok, a New Mirror for the High-Res one (36Meg) is:

http://www.digi-port.net/bicho/Bicho_400x300_mpeg4.avi

Fully DAP/Getright compatable.

Regards

-Obraxis

[lildragon]

Awesome Obraxis, thx for that, I'll post it on 3dfestival.com as well :thumbsup:

salud

[froggyplat]

thank you for that, obraxis. can't wait to see it:)

[tariel]

Thank you, Obraxis :beer:

[Frinsklen]

Holaaaaaaa....

I had already downloaded your short, like a month ago or so.
I have to say that you've done a wonderful job, and the only thing I can crit here, is that the whole thing seems to be a bit slow to me in a couple of moments, like if the action scenes need to be faster or more dramatic. I'm not sure why I'm saying this, though. :rolleyes:


I cant wait to see what's next!


Saludos

[moroten]

Real nice! :beer: I like the smooth cartoony style to the characters (just like my Ice Egg chicken)! Congratulations!

-Daniel

[CGmonkey]

awesome dude!! Damn I can't believe it's so damn funny!!!

[stickyblue]

hey what about posting somescreenshots for people who has slow connection at home and needs to go back to school to download such a big file like that ... *me* :)

[Enrique Gato]

Originally posted by sticky blue
hey what about posting somescreenshots for people who has slow connection at home and needs to go back to school to download such a big file like that ... *me* :)

Ok, here you are three of them. If you want to see more enter http://www.3dluvr.com/gato and go to the Stills section. There you have more pics of the short.

http://perso.wanadoo.es/enriquegato/framesBicho.jpg

[CarlCampbell]

That was excellent! I really loved it!

Enrique, de que manera te ayudó Martinez Lara? Ya lo conozco a través de Pepeland, pero es que dices soporte técnico...
Animaste los créditos en 3D por cierto o en 2D?
Muy buen trabajo, no tengo ninguna crítica negativa!

Carl :beer:

[Stephen Vyas]

A very deserving CGChoice award. I can only say good things about this short.

Keep up the good work!

Cheers
Steve

[Indavisual]

Rrrrr keeps telling me server has internal error when I try to download. for both places. Im trying to use DAP to download it. I tried IE downloader and it downloaded but it wont play!! I want to see it so bad. Looks good from what you've shown.

[Matt]

E.T. Phone Home?

[Obraxis]

Originally posted by Indavisual
Rrrrr keeps telling me server has internal error when I try to download. for both places. Im trying to use DAP to download it. I tried IE downloader and it downloaded but it wont play!! I want to see it so bad. Looks good from what you've shown.

I checked out my mirror link and I cant find anything wrong with it Im afraid....:shrug:

[Larry_g1s]

Oh man...just finished watching it (...sorry, I'm on dial-up) and I gotta say GREAT job! Nice animation and expressions. Real quality short. :thumbsup:

[markdc]

I saw this a while ago. I thought the pacing was too slow and the music was annoying. The animation is pretty good.

[Jabo]

I can't play the file, even though I installed Quicktime6!

[moovieboy]

Hmmm... I'm having difficulty playing it. What's the codec?

I hope it's not the older version of DivX (aka 3.11) because the only way us Mac OS9 users are able to view DivX 5 stuff is to trash 3.11:annoyed:

-Tom

[Obraxis]

Ok Mac people - the reason ur having probs playing it is cause the audio is in WindowsMediaAudio...only the visuals are Mpeg4.

Which means u Mac people have to download MediaPlayer for Mac from good ol' Microsoft.

[Grgeon]

I too am unable to see it on my Mac os X.2

By the way everyone is talking about it, I'd really like to see it.

what can be done?

George

[Jabo]

I'm a Windows XP guy, still can't play it tho ;)

[Johnlittle]

First of all thanks Obraxis. I got it to download with blazing speed with my DSL service. Before that the internal error was all I got. In case some of you still get it make sure to change the name of the mirror,otherwise it will still conk out.
As for the short: Very well animated. Fantastic in fact. The music was good,not great,just good,not annoying. But I think it's good to get a wide variety of honest opinions from many people, don't you Enrique Gato? This way you can still make minor adgustments all for the better.

Spoilers below ....beware.










The story was very good. Interesting. Pretty fun. I like the fact that the bad guy ends up in the space Zoo/museum. Expressions were very well done to. I think all in all it was a very good piece of work.I had fun watching it. Thanks for the short Enrique Gato. :thumbsup: :applause: :beer:

[MaskTX]

Sorry! I just cannot download this big file(slow connection) I realy wanted to see it but i cant :annoyed:

[Paul V]

Great work!!!

Esta curradillo el tema...
Lo mejor del corto la animación sin duda.

[Enrique Gato]

Hello again

First of all thanks to everybody for your comments (for all of them, including the people who didn't like some aspects of the short, there're always things to learn from negative critics)

I see there are some people who can't download the whole short due to slow connection. If you want to try at least to download a piece of the whole movie, check the next URLs:

high quality(12 Mb): http://www.3dluvr.com/gato/videos/Bicho_400x300_mpeg4_SHORT.avi

low quality(7,5 Mb): http://www.3dluvr.com/gato/videos/Bicho_320x240_mpeg4_SHORT.avi

All the avis are compressed with Microsoft MPEG4 codec. You can get it downloading an updated version of Windows media player:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/en/download/default.asp

For all the people who have other problems to download the short I just can say them to wait some hours so that the server is not collapsed.

Thanks for your patience

[Omita]

The character reminds me of Mark Osborne's claymation characters from "More".

http://www.awn.com/mag/issue3.11/3.11pages/osbornemore.php3

Good short.

-Omita

[Stratobrain]

Windows Media Player doesn't play any avi files on a mac. It seems to be part of Microsoft's condemnable strategy to introduce new standards, force them upon windows users and not support them on other systems.

The Mp42 codec is supposed to be an mpeg codec, but microsoft managed it to be incompatible with this very standard. :thumbsdow I can only beg anyone offering content on the internet to use standards that anyone is equally able to use, as http://www.3ivx.com/

Yet for anyone with a mac using X there is hope :p You can download mplayer, it plays most avi's that the qt player doesn't. (get MPlayerOSX1.01.sit)
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=62947&release_id=124929

[moovieboy]

Sigh... I'm just getting error messages with MPlayer...

Double sigh... I really would like to see this animation too:shrug:

-Tom

[mpatton]

Another alternative for Mac users is a program called VideoLAN Client, which I've found to play both the audio and video of avi's very well. Though I can't say whether it works with this specific file yet (still need to get the download working), if you're having trouble getting the file playing, and want to try it out you can download it here (http://www.videolan.org/pub/videolan/vlc/0.4.6/macosx/vlc-0.4.6.dmg). Hope it works ok, and looking forward to seeing the animation! :thumbsup:

[mpatton]

Ah! Just found Obraxis' mirror, and downloaded from there. Happy to say that both the video and audio work fine in VLC on 10.2 (again, you can download it for Mac here (http://www.videolan.org/pub/videolan/vlc/0.4.6/macosx/vlc-0.4.6.dmg)), so if you haven't gotten it working yet, that might be your answer.

Oh, and, of course, great animation! Love the expressions of the character, and nice job on the lighting :applause:

[Faraguay]

Great short film! I enjoyed it a lot. It reminded me a lot to Daniel's Martinez style. Very nice. What I enjoyed the most is when the alien pushes the button of his space ship to take land: I love the expresion on his face and his pose. It's very subtile and I think it's because of this I like it.
I don't like the fact that there're very few elements textured in the short... But I know that making all this work one or two persons is already a hard task. You're excused. :p

I wish I could animate like you do... :thumbsup:

Un saludo y enhorabuena!

[Jenner]

This was a cute little show! I loved it! especially when the main-character dude plays with that flumpy jelly-thing :bounce:

[3dmask]

Hola Gato!

You did an amazing work with Bicho. I saw this character a long time ago in Lara's school, and I think now it's better than a year ago. I think the animation is one of the best I've ever seen in a particular work. I must give you the highest rating.

Congratulations
---------------
3Dmask - character animator

[Rmortis]

Hola, que casualidad mi personaje tambien se llama bicho, esta en la seccion de desarrollo.

La animación la estoy bajando , tiene buena pinta. Ya te comento luego.Ya la he visto, lo mejor los titulos de credito.
Esta bien, tal vez le falta algo mas de dinamismo.

Un saludo.

Activating translate....

Hi, mine character name is bicho too.
I download the animation, pics look good. I coment animation later.



Sorry mine english.

[Mangled Poly]

truly awesome work!

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