SHORT MOVIE - Meet the Barrows

[Kid Dynomite]

Heh, those clips are hilarious, although everyone seems to be falling over and dying. Your animation skills are quite good.

it should be some texan accent, kind of rednecks, cynical, maybe scratchy, passive but histerical

As someone born and raised in Texas, I'm highly offended by your characterization of my peoples. :applause: Just kidding. I'd help you out, but my accent is long gone.

[mediaramas]

:scream:no way! that`s only the personality description of my characters, not my concept of people from Texas at all!

[Loolarge]

I hope the sacrifice will pay off for you :) Looking good so far.

[tevih]

I didn't hear any sound in the clips, but the animation was hysterical! Great character designs! This really is looking great so far!!

I love doing voices - I'd do a Texan for fun, for free! Send me some lines and I'll pop you a recording.

[vdhalexis]

Yép matias, this first small shot are cool; and have a special style!
I'm waiting the entire short with tenasity!

a date?

> the ambient occ. is very good here! :D

Best +

[mediaramas]

thanks a lot guys!

I also expect the sacrifice is worthy!

a launching date? mmm.....within a month or two I guess, I am just working on the final scene that completes 12 minutes exactly, I left out 2 scenes that I really liked but I think it works the same way without them

here is one of the many animations I started working but decided to disregard, in this case, because I dont think that a person who`s been drinkin whiskey his all life would puke because of it, besides I also preferred to avoid gross out stuff like pukes, farts and berps, I know they are always funny :) , but I wanted something differente to that

enjoy the puke! video 7 (http://www.mediaramas.com/videos/deletescene.mov)

I`d appreciate more comments! it`s always inspiring to have other points of views and critics

[pinoyanimator]

nice animation,

[sgbox]

hi mediaramas,
character design is very successfull and animation is really cute.
i got quality poses, right and quality Poses are very important
for good animation. And the topic as a half of the project is
very entertaining as well.

[TP]

love your character man , sooo cool :thumbsup: , waiting to see the final movie looking good :applause: , gr8 textures on the stills :p

[Bleen]

Hello there :)

First of all, kudos on taking on such a huge task. I hope your efforts pay off :thumbsup:

Now, some mild critique... Love the character designs and color palette, however, I believe that in the last two stills, the palette differs from the rest.

Also, you seem to be having problems with the shoulder rig, I see some akward twisting and texture stretching in some places...

Not much to critique yet, but I'm sure more will come up as you update.

I will be expecting a signed copy :D (j/k)

[pixeldoggy]

hey matias,

that looks like it's going to be a great piece. Love the whole design. 12 minutes is a huge undertaking, but I'm sure all your sacrifices will pay off in the end. Gotta do what you love!

sven

[mediaramas]

thanks a lot guys!!

Bleen, yeah, the last image was still in progress, that was just a plain render before, this is how it is gonna look in the final piece

http://www.mediaramas.com/videos/shot1b.jpg

it still looks different from the rest because it is part of the introduction that happened in a different time from the rest of the story

I´ve been inspired for this silly cops by the weasels from Roger Rabbit
for the rest of the stuff my inspirations are John Kricfalusi(I had the pleasure to shake hands with this freak genious a few years ago at the Ottawa animation festival), Bob Clampett, Tex Avery, Chuck Jones, Max Fleischer, Jim henson and sooo many other artists


I am starting working on the music right now, got many great songs on my mind, Johnny cash, Statler brothers, Soggy Bottom Boys, Credence, and lots of other cool country stuff, ...so suggestions are welcome!

[Bleen]

Well, I don't know much about music, but maybe you could use two styles? Dixieland jazz for the cops, and country for the other folks? :-) could turn out nice

[Tasimasu]

congrats to such a brave man. quiting jop for doing short film. you are nut :D but I guess all of your effort can be return you as a good jop. I like your characters and your animation is very good. Im waiting to see it. I have a short film project but I cant find enough time to finish it :( quiting job it is too brave decision for me to take. I ll sent my best wishes and good luck in festivals. for music http://www.icebergradio.com/genre/country you can find some music and it can be give you alternatives . hope it helps you..

[harmonic01]

Hey Matias,

You are brave for quitting your job and moving back. I think you'll do very well with this short, though. It already looks great and I am really looking forward to seeing it. Best of luck to you. :thumbsup:

[mediaramas]

thanks! guys!!

I am not that brave actually, it was more of a drastic decision, wasnt happy at what I was doing and wanted to do something different and more personal

I am working on the smoke for the cigar based on the Allan Mckay tutorial

and planning to fur the dog, not sure if going for ornatrix or hair and shave, suggestions welcome

and btw, I am still looking for voices in case someone wants to help me out!

just a small image of expressions and mouth positions

http://www.mediaramas.com/pics/morphs%20bonnie.jpg

[mimo8]

great concept, animation ... and fun

really love the "job" you do here.
the animation is full of details and has a great toony style.
I love the car driving away in intro4b ... wobble - wobble.

keep the good work up.
good luck finding your voices and developing the dogs (great character) hair.
I work with maya (hair) so I cannot recommend neither shave nor ornatrix,
but if you want to avoid real fur I was realy pleased with the look of a fake fur solution,
using a velvet shader in combination with fur like textures.
PM me if you need detailed infos, or want to look at the shader network, photoshop layers. look at my short "outofthebox" to see the result.

cu arround
http://www.brain-one.at/mmm/bunny.gif

[adib]

Superb project bravo 5*:thumbsup:

[colony]

very inspirational stuff dude! great concept and animation is nice too. wish you luck!

[akin]

l realy liked the mongol low brained style characters a lot. there is some good smells of pro looking point of view. we need that kind of neo thoughs too. nice start hope to see more...

[mediaramas]

thanks a lot guys!
I am pretty much done with the animation and almost there with postproduction, jut fixing some smoke here and there

the last thing I am doing is the audio right now, should have been the first, but, well...
so if someone wants to help out doing funny voices will be awsome! I tried my own voice and it sucks

here is one of the first test renders I had for the characters, but the kid, the jews and the tall guy(he`s homosexual btw) won`t show up until the next short, if I ever happen to make a second one

http://www.mediaramas.com/pics/characters2.jpg

[Arrrgh4life]

Ha, Fantastic. I cant wait to see this short! Do you still have the concept sketches, I always think those are cool to look at, and then compare to the final result. Assuming you've done most of the renders already, How long did this take to render?

[Bleen]

Hey, great blendshape shot!
Are those actual blendshapes, or are they combined into expressions?
If so, how many blendshapes did you create for that character? (right and left blendshapes count as one each).

[ratatat]

wow, super concepts and animation. the rendered stills look amazing as well. i'm sure the labor will pay off once your film is launched into the festival world. it's great to see someone doing something they truely enjoy. can you see my envy :drool:

took a look at your site and it was AWESOME. Your cowboys and engines concept is quite funny. keep up the good work and can't wait to see the full short.

cheers!

[mediaramas]

thanks guys for all the support and feedback!


AUGUST 19th - trailer released!:twisted:
check www.mediaramas.com/bc (http://www.mediaramas.com/bc)

btw, I am still looking for voice talents for the characters, if you want to cooperate email me at matias@mediaramas.com

[Bleen]

Awesome :bounce:

Bonnie and Clyde! I saw the film some time ago... great movie... excellent topic imho.

One thing that was weird was the gunshots when the car is being shot... it seemed it was being shot by machineguns, but I heard revolver/pistol gunshots... better practice some foley or get some sound fx :D

Can't wait to see the completed short! Bet you it'll end up in the front page :deal:

[blz]

i must say youre really a brave men to just quit everything and start to fulfil your dreams.
the work youve done so far is very impressive and i rally do hope everything will go smooth in the future and youll have some success with it :)
and if you find yourself in need of some original score, lemme know, maybe i will be able to help you with this one.
keep up the good work!

[mediaramas]

thanks guys!

Bleen, yeah, I know nothing about sfx, nothing about guns either, I just made the sound for that trailer, but I am not doing the final sfx for the movie for sure, I am talking to a few sound designers these days.

I made a lot of research about Bonnie n´Clyde, I took lots of references from the few pictures of them, in fact I represented the poses from those pictures in my movie, take a look at them!

http://www.mediaramas.com/videos/classics.jpg

[Meteoro]

WOW, I saw this trailer in another forum and just want to give you my support here too.

Awesome work! :thumbsup: 5* from me.

Cheers.

[MAB991]

Hi , well done man :thumbsup: , I like the animation it's really nice , i'm doing now my Animation Assignment for my college and it's my frist time animating so i found that to animate a character is not easy at all , anyway your work is really nice good for you to do like that . ****

[mediaramas]

thanks guys!
it´s been a while since I don`t post here, I got this movie pretty much done now!

...and thanks to my good friends in Chicago who made those terrific voice overs!

here`s one more still from the movie..

http://www.mediaramas.com/pics/Bgallery.jpg

[Serebryakov]

Hey man, just wanted to tell you that I think your work is great. I still can't believe that you pulled so much with creating your own characters, creating concept, sets, modeling,texturing and so on and on... yourself. I think you might become my idol lol and a great example of an independent artist. But seriously, thanks for the hard work and devotion of yours. Thanks for the support of other people that helped you. I don't think it will be more important how much you would earn on this movie, but it will be more important as an example for other people to see and follow this art.

Good luck!!!

[chrishaighcomposer]

Quality!! the stills look amazing so well done on them, I've tried to watch some of the short clips, but I cant seem to get them. Oh well I'll try for like the 55th time, may get lucky.

Anyway great looking work

Kindest Regards
Chris Haigh

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