Animation: New "Blue" Production Clip!

[FusionDG]

Hi Christopher,

Thanks for keeping us updated w/your short. I found the first teaser you gave us very promising, and your second clip is peaking that interest. :applause:

Everything looks beautiful, but there is one really minor thing that stuck out to me.

I don’t know if it is your intention or not, but when your scared robot starts to walk backwards, around the 0:25 mark, he does something that looks odd to me.

He pauses and brings his right foot FWD, then zips running the opposite direction. It had a “WB” Bugs Bunny kinda feel to it, almost as if I could expect to see a puff of smoke remaining from where he took off from.

If the character is meant to move as in real life, I would expect [this is how I’d move anyways, but I’m not a robot :D] at the 0:25 mark instead of moving my right foot FWD and pausing for a sec, I would quickly take a giant step backward with the right foot and then w/the left foot all while looking at the bad guy. Then the next step would be to quickly spin my torso 180 degrees off of the left foot to land on my right foot so that I would be facing down the hall to where I was going to be running FWD. All of this would be in one quick, fluid motion without a pause.

It’s just a simple observation. I’m not an animator or even anything related to the field, so I really may not know what I’m talking about here. So if I am way off base, just ignore this post minus the kudos :blush:

Looking forward to the updates, and thanks for keeping us posted! :thumbsup:

~ Paul.

[HieSpike]

LOoks very Cool....
but it makes no sense.
Maybe it's because it's just a clip. But I don't see why Blue runs away from the red robot.

Oh well....great work though.

peace,
Kane

[Mully]

Fusion,

Thanx for your interest and support!

Well... it WAS supposed to have a slight bugs bunny feel. The rest of the film's character animation is pretty straight-forward and psuedo realistic... I just thought that would be a little bit of comic relief. I guess it would be hard for you to get the same feel since it's really the ONLY animation you've seen. But I will definitely keep your criticism in mind. Who know's... I may change it.

;-)

Cheers bro,
-Christopher Mullins
www.blueshortfilm.com

[roguenroll]

very nice work.

R:buttrock:

[lildragon]

Good to see you here Christopher this looks like the next generation of Rustboy, maybe him in the future? Heh looks very promising indeed, what's your timeframe on it? And we need more more :)

btw where's this? I couldn't find a link :shrug:

Originally posted by HieSpike
But I don't see why Blue runs away from the red robot.

Kane

salud

[Rudity]

Good job Mully.

I have been eagerly waiting for this short since the last post of it.
:thumbsup:

YAYY its looking good. Can't wait till its done.


Later Rudity
:beer:

[Freestyler]

downloading it right now... damn that server is slow, 10 kb/s..:hmm:

[lildragon]

btw, where did you snag those images of the QT and divx logos? would love to use ones without a BG for my site also :)

salud

[samartin]

Seen the frontapge and it looks really good, any chance u can post some still frames as I'm on a cr@ppy 56K modem until 2morrow that is...

[CGmonkey]

Awesome Production Clip! :)

[moroten]

Terribly slow download... 1,3 kB/sec. If it's OK with the author, could someone post a mirror URL?

-Daniel

[Ed Lee]

Congratulations on your film...seems like with advent of some great 3D soft creative people are undertaking a visual medium to tell a story. I too am working on "something" so I appreciate those who decide to take on such a daunting task, and willingness to expose themselves to the masses (and also face crits and praises). It takes heroic effort to commit oneself to that endeavor.

Bringing creative people together are not easy, but in the end must be fulfilling as it is the process of cooperation and creative exchanges to make a product come together. I salute thee..!

Ed--

www.edleeart.com

[Stimpy]

i didnt really like the use of DOF in this clip... half of the clip seems to be all blurry... shame, cause you lose all the nice details.
but thats of course just my opinion.

good luck with the movie, looking very promising

[Underleft]

I tried Downloading it...but its only going at 1 kb/s and Im on DSL. Do you think you could get a faster server or anything?

[Mully]

Thank you all for your kind compliments! They're greatly appreciated. All criticisms have been noted as well.

;-)

If someone wants to post the Production Clip on a mirror site, you have my permission.

-Christopher Mullins
www.blueshortfilm.com

[niut]

Yep! Ilike your works a lot! :applause: :applause: :applause:

[Abominable]

Love to see your style but the d/l is about 2 k/s so i killed it. Sorry man...I'll try again later...Cheers!

[lildragon]

Very nice indeed, as I said in my original post. :)


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salud

[chicken]

ive been browsing cgtalk for a while now and i just felt like posting a mirror

i dont think artwork shouldent be shown just because a server is slow

this SHOULD be faster

I have around 29gb transfer left on my account hopefully this will last

the divx versions

Teaser
http://www.stiraboutlane.com/Teaser01_Divx.zip

Production
http://www.stiraboutlane.com/Chase_divx.avi

*EDIT*forgot to say how much i liked them hehe i think the stall on teh 25sec mark is a good addition :thumbsup: */EDIT*

[froggyplat]

wow.....

wow.


that is cool. thanks to chicken for mirroring the vid's: otherwise i wouldn't have bothered.

that's some great stuff mully. i especially liked your camera and composition...very engaging. and the teaser really left me wanting to see more (cool music too). great job!

keep us posted:)

[DougG]

Amazing work, I can't wait to see more.

I love that music, where did you get it?

Or did you create it?

[Mully]

The music is being created by an Australian name James Anderson. At some point he is supposed to create a site to advertise his services as a "musician for hire"... He's quite busy now though with Blue and other projects.

Cheers,
-Christopher Mullins
www.blueshortfilm.com

[William b. Hand]

:bounce: THIS IS EXCEPTIONAL! It took a little while to load... but just a few minutes, not the 2 kbps or whatever that someone else mentioned. I also felt that the motivation for the robot to book outta there was sorta self-evident... I don't really get the criticisms others are tossing at you, this is top-notch. I really dig this, thanks for sharing it!:wavey:

[harly]

I really dig the design !!!
was a little bit dissapointed while watchin´ the teaser, just expected the big robot chasing the small one..
Hmm, hurry on guys, show us more :p

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