Animation (premiere) : TOTAL CONTROL (car chase)

[Omniscient]

Link doesent work for me, but that picture looks cool.

[chot]

cant play your movie. what codecs do i need?

[stephen2002]

movie dosn't play and I have the most recent version of DivX installed

[CGmonkey]

Awesome action scenes, I usually hate carchases but this one was hella cool! :)

[Pengy300]

Great action scenes...IMHO it ranks right up there with Steve Mcqueen in BULLITT...Only 1 thing I would have liked to have seen and that's the tanker truck blowing up. Excellent work.

Pengy
P.S. What about the usual background info, How long to do? What programs? etc.

[aazimkhan]

Hello,

It took me about 1.5months. For all the modeling, texturing animation and post work + a few weeks for rendering.
Excluding the SUV, cop and chopper which were modeled earlier but were re-touched for the animation.

All the 3d work was done in XSI, and post work in combustion.
The train was modeling in one day including the texures.

The most time was spent on rendering...
It was all dont on a P4 1.8Ghz | 256DDR ram | Geforce2 64MB

[JBruckner]

Im interested, how long did the rendering take in all?

[stephen2002]

the animation is pretty good but a lot of the environments and the cars are lacking details that would make it more realistic. This is more video-game style graphics, but pretty good overall.

[aazimkhan]

Hi,

yeah i wasnt aiming for realism, i wanted the kind of look from need for speed hot pursuit intro .... and i wanted it to be like a intro of a car game...

the rendering took about a month...all the scenes were rendered in a minimum of 3 layers...i find rendering the hardest part of 3D.

[Xilica]

HOLY HELL!!!


HOLY ****

VERY VERY HAHAH NICE!!!!!!

i SWEAR TO SWEET JESUS THIS IS SO ****ING HARDCORE

:buttrock: :buttrock: :buttrock: :buttrock: :buttrock: :buttrock: :buttrock: :buttrock:

[WhiteRabbitObj]

Heh, dude I think you need to get someone else to do compression for ya, the big file seems not to work either. I think maybe you had it output just work area instead of the entire timeline in whatever program you used. Dunno for sure, but, I can play about 5 seconds then it freezes, continues to play music, but wont play any more video. Checkin out the smaller version now.

[EDIT] Same thing happened with smaller divX. every time it gets to what I assume is the first cut, where the yellow car races past the screen, it freezes.

[WhiteRabbitObj]

Well, couldnt get the divx versions to end up working, tried two different players. But I watched the QT... definitely awesome. I'll do some crit later but it looks awesome off the bat!

[aazimkhan]

thanks whiterabbit....i think that divx one wont work...damn.
I `ll delete those and put another quicktime medium resolution instead....

thanks

EDIT: ...never mind...please get the LATEST...divx...5.03!...
thanks

[WhiteRabbitObj]

So, aazimkhan and I got this worked out, make sure you've got the absolute latest version of DivX. I thought I did but I was off by .01. lol! This rocks, highly recommended d/l.

[StevenR]

Excellent animation!:thumbsup:
My only gripe is that the text near the end is difficult to read ('Total Speed' and 'Total Power,' I believe), as it is very bright.

[aazimkhan]

okay....my site was down for some time...and also problems with the formats ( divx ) not working.

1st of...divx5.03 strictly recomended.

Also i added a WMV (windows media video version )
....hopefully everyone will be able to open the wmv file......

i hope i dont have any more probs now...

Enjoy..

[OrestesMantra]

Amazing:drool:

That was a very cool short.

[SEPHROTH64]

really good but a lil too much like fast and the furious there at the end for my taste

[facial]

Coooooooooooooool. :eek: :thumbsup:

[xynaria]

Main crit... where the cars go from slo mo back to speed doesn't quite read .... they don't seem to get back to speed properly.
Other crit..... be possibly good to have images of the vehicle to look at as well as .mov files on the website.
Otherwise looks pretty successful to me with some very effective cutting. :)

[veryferry]

:buttrock: That is way cool.
I really love it, especially when they shoot along the truck, when the slip in the sand...very cool.

[kin]

really nice! great work! :thumbsup:

[nek11man]

OMG, awesome job man, incredible animation
good job

:buttrock: :buttrock: :buttrock:



http://www.vfs.com/~manft/ken_web/

[KotsVlok]

Need 4 Speed is in da house :D :drool:

[Yorgo12345]

Slammin!

My favorite part is when the yellow one passes the truck, it looks so wild and out of controll!!

just slammin!

[aazimkhan]

Wow..... got some replies here...

xynaria : thanks for the idea...i`ll add in few images for the models in there too.

SEPHROTH64 : yeah...well i didnt know what kind of action...i planned a few differnt action shots but..then they looked way too unreal....the final show from F&F is awesome...it looked jsut right.... so i thoght why not do the same....

the overall animation was inspired ffrom the NFS4 intro.

veryferry,kin,KotsVlok,Yorgo12345,StevenR,OrestesMantra:
thanks, the hold up behind the truck was my addition to build the pressure...and then show a sudden burst of speed - continuing to the final F&F stunt.

nek11man : hey ken, your new model is awesome. really nice and clean. g8!....i would love to see more of your new work.!

[Abhinav3d]

Kya re...
logo ne tera kaam nahi dekha..first time...
second time 4 star rating ...
sahi hai re...

Keep up the good work....
You have worked shit hard for this and I know u will succeed...

As for the crits..>I already sent u....


Keep it up...Good work...

Sabaash Mere cheteeh

Tera bhai,
( chotta nahi...bada)

Take care,
Abhi

[Pin_pal]

I liked it a lot. Perfect for like a game intro. Nice work!

[Dj Petro]

It was nice to see that Airwolf made its way into the game...I used to love that show.

_

[cyberjunkie]

Very awesome. I love the scene where the cars overtake the tanker from both the sides with all the dust flying and all. Very cool indeeed :bounce: :bounce: :bounce:

[zkanal]

Not your fault ,but even with the latest divx it didn't work for me. Well somewhat ,but garbled image.

[[DSmod]Tweak]

I think you should add some REALLY REALLY small back roads with like cork screw turns and te cars going like 60 on em and smoking the turn hahahha that woulkd be AWSOME!

[phoenix2k]

wow.... amazing! :eek:

[lawmanis1]

loved the animation...i see that you took the ending of the jump across the railroad tracks from the movie fast and the furious.

[Slippery]

Hey Aazim that was really cool....i wanted tried to see this a couple of months ago but the divx thing wasn't working...finally got to see it...this is really cool animation.

[hackie]

Hi!! Aazimkhan!!

it's just mind blower!!!
that's super-duper awesome!!!
everything is working pretty good on your reel.
i love the camera walk...that's pretty realistic besides your nice models(cars, chopper, train, what else)
i still can't believe that you finished everything in 2.5 months.
compared to mine, it took me forever(*cough* 6 months, as you know)
well, i'm jealous man!

good job!!!!

5/5

:D

[sixthe45]

Nothing fabulous.
Have seen this type of chase sequences before.
So in terms of something new there isnt any :thumbsdow
Stars deserved 2/5.
Texturing quality needs to go up.
Cars seem to act like blocks (physics engine needs to be introduced)

[Abhinav3d]

HEy aazim khan...
great work...
I simply love it...
Can't believe u finished in 2.5 months...IT looks awesome...
Wish u all the luck with this, Mate...

Hey sixthe45,
This is an animation sequence all keyframed by hand..OK..so no dynamics and stuff.. and considering the time limit...2.5 months is good...and the main focus here I guess, was animation ok..not texturing...
The reason EA sequences look better coz they have a team doing it and they are pros..
This stuff looks good becoz its got potential ok its not top notch but its good...
I would appreciate if you would be a bit more conscious about your criticisms...Ok...
Have a good day,
Adios
Abhi

[DarkHydra]

That was pretty cool. One thing I really would have liked to see from the Fast and Furious rail road jump is a shot from above. A shot from directly above would really show off the close call I feel. Good work either way.

[aazimkhan]

wow, my long lost thread up here again...
good to see some of u liked it...

sixthe45 : you seem to have a differnt view, a little more detial about what u didnt like could actually help me...Yes i agree the car models are not gr8, but can u tell me more about where my textures can be improved?...

As for the car physics, everything is keyframed animation. .. Now that i see my own animation after sometime ,..i too think the animation could have been better.


:)

[ReSeT]

awesome, outstanding .... whatever! :applause: :thumbsup:

[jayreef]

i thought that was very impressive indeed, for the beginning of a car chase game, it really was outstanding, and I will be even more impressed when i find out the poly counts on those vehicles:thumbsup:

[Nexu]

good job.. specially the car models

:)

[Tycane]

oh yea,i like this one,though i did see it what,half a year or longer ago,its been done for quite a while now,think you posted it at cgchat right?

anyways,the whole thing is totally cool,just a few minor points,in the slowmo jump of the orange car,at the end he seems to slam pretty hard to the asphalt and a bit out of flow with the slowmo part.and the other thing,at the end when they drive away from when the train just passed,it seems like their only going 60(km/ph).
other then that,wicked,totally love the part where the chopper cuts into screen,totally nailed that one.(but what about the rockets,everything tastes better with rockets ;) )

[Frank Dodd]

Very nice little animation, pacey, carefully assembled will realistic motion and very eye catching. The only thing that I think would improve it would be a little human touch even if only from simple bystanders.

Well done.

[FloydBishop]

I like this a lot. It reminds me of "Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit".

[wedge]

i'm not really impressed by this. the cars have no sense of weight, they don't seem to be riding on shocks, and they don't seem to have any grip on the road. maybe this would work better if they were hover cars?

[jdsb]

wgeddes: u need some sleep or a doctor...
aazim:this is TOTAL CONTROL, and i mean TOTAL :eek: :eek: :eek:

[aazimkhan]

Woah!, this thread is back from the dead!!, after like AGES!!....

"Who dares wake this thread from its slumber" (echo)

This was done almost a year ago - and I myself agree the car models arent that good (this was rather a quick project - testing my lowpoly modeling, evnironment, composition, and my favourite music video stlye editing - to bring engery.

I have news I am working on a newer one - hi-quality car models - well detialed environments. And i`ll make sure the cars are not hovering but running on the road! :scream:

here is a wip shot of the cop car: (wip )
http://www.aazim.odhn.com/orion/ornsp20.jpg
image update october08,2004


anyways, I appreciate many people liked it.

Thanks.

[jdsb]

cant wait....:wise: :) :thumbsup:

[pritishd]

wasn't this your VFS demo reel

[SeVeR3K]

OMFG this is so cool its let me thinking of NFS HP II

NICE ANI Movie!!

[Gremlin]

does indeed remind me of NFS:HP2 (maybe because the cars are similar, and the same color?:D) but it was pretty cool...

I mean, I know its old school... but anywho, the one thing that stood is out when the red car is in the air duringh the slow mod, the sound continues to "slow" even the animation doesnt, so its like... "why is the sound pitch/speed decreasing even tho the animation speed isnt" but other than that, it was pretty cool...

the new cop car looks interesting, not my personal style (the car looks like its a futuristic 1982 honda accord) but I'm sure the new animation will be just as good if not better.

[Acree]

Dude! This is one of the best animation pieces I have ever seen!:thumbsup:

It even rivals the bionicle film.

Well sort of,:wise:

And before anyone thinks I'm crazy its my lil bro's film not mine.:rolleyes:

[aazimkhan]

thanks dudes, for the appreciation - i`ll make sure the next animation is better - it wont be compeleted at the same speed i did this, coz of work - but i am definetly progressing . collecting references etc - for environments/city, car model references. a lot of car videos for stunts, looking for music tracks etc etc.

Its this appreciation that makes all the work worth it! :)

thanks.

[Hagan]

I would very much like to see your films and screenshots but the link and server seems to be down. Are they permenantly removed now or is this a temporary glitch?

[aazimkhan]

Hi HD,
thanks for ur interest in my short film.

MY server was down for last 2 days. Its up and running now.
If u want to download other versions, please visit my site www.aazim.odhn.com (http://www.aazim.odhn.com)
and goto animations page.

thanks.

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