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thanatos

01-21-2003, 03:23 PM

I am working on a bit of character animation and I wanted to share what I had and open it to some constructive criticism. This is a one minute piece called "Trigger". I modeled, animated and rendered it in Maya. I welcome comments.

The animation is more or less complete but for some problems that I am currently trying to resolve with secondary movement and some odd "3d animation"-looking motion in the arms of both characters.

Anyway, check it out. Its about 8 megs in AVI DIVX.

http://www.lineofaction.com/vidsource/trigger_final_divx.avi

Alternately...

http://64.127.204.202/vidsource/trigger_final_divx.avi

cheers,

ryokley@lineofaction.com

Hexodam

01-21-2003, 03:46 PM

I like it, wonderful animation:)

DDS

01-21-2003, 04:37 PM

wowwww really nice, i love it. which 3d package have you used?
keep working :thumbsup:

t-toe

01-21-2003, 04:48 PM

DDS if you just read his post, you'll discover what 3d package he used... read it again...

--t.toe

The3DMan

01-21-2003, 06:43 PM

hey thats pretty nice! good job :)

thanatos

01-21-2003, 09:28 PM

Indeed, I used Maya 4.0 for all the animation and modeling, yada yada. All the textures are procedural. I was thinking about changing the lighting setup to something more like GI and rendering everything in Renderman. I'm still learning how to use it though and I haven't quite figured out how to layer procedurals yet.

Don't be afraid to tear me a new one if you think something should change, btw. ;)

thanatos

01-21-2003, 11:19 PM

There was some issue with my domain server not working. It should be fixed now.

distopia

01-22-2003, 06:09 PM

I like it. I think that there are some problems with that headlight thing on both of them. Doesn't seem to move consistently.

thanatos

01-27-2003, 07:41 PM

Cheers. Yeah. I'm working to fix that. I'm trying to find a good way to rig that thing but haven't quite found a viable solution yet. Same with the currently immobile tail. Right now its a string of joints controlled using the old 'select -hi' trick. That's apparently not the best solution.

Any ideas?

Oh and if anyone was having problems seeing the thing, the dns that controls my domain is apparently wonky, so here's the ip:

http://64.127.204.202/vidsource/trigger_final_divx.avi

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