character animation : origami

[JokerMax]

man i like it!
its so damn touching for me.
and i guess it was quite challenging technically as well. share som e details please.
great job to be short.

[magic6435]

i cant even fold paper in real life :( nice work

[Ben Shore]

What codec is that compressed with? I couldn't view it :(

[OrestesMantra]

Amazing work!:drool:

[John Lee]

Hey this animation is very original. never seen anything like ths b4. good work man. i will be interested in seing more of your work if that's ok? Did you use morphs?

[zoso]

when your red paper falls down i would allow for more slow-ins and slow-outs when it changes directions and when coming to a stop.

after the red paper gets folded into the little animal i wouldn't cross fade to a closer shot of him i would just cut or use no camera transitions at all keeping the original shot.

other than that is was very enjoyable and touching.

[Phrenzy84]

very artistic, very nice. The music really works well with this piece.
Great work. :thumbsup:

[stephen2002]

very nice work. The only thing that was a little bit annoying to me is that the paper was infinitly flat. I am sure if you extrued it a little bit to add depth it would have become a lot harder to "fold".

Very original

[dragonz]

WOW! i enjoyed that very much, very original. Very good work.

[fubar3d]

thx for all the positiv feedback.

@zoso
yes, some of the cuts and fades could be better, but it's still quite an improvement over my earlier versions.

@stephen2002
yes, i tried doing it as a box, but it turned out to be nearly impossible to fold. I also tried to only extrude it after the folding(for the animation), but that didn't work either

how i did it?
it's basicly an animated construction history using rotation(translation) of clustered vertices with poly(edge) cutting tool. Took a bit of practice, but worked quite well in the end. I did try softbodies(springs as well) and cloth, to make the folding look more natural. but the results were far from usable.

joerg

[Enrique Gato]

Nice piece, I liked it so much. Only one technical crit: when the burned paper falls down into ashes, particles are too big and defined (you can see the triangles).

Congratulations
:thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup:

[inverse]

wow! I love it! yeah lol, the ONLY thing you could say anything about would be the particles, but personally I didn't even notice it. It's awesoe, great camera positions too. when do we get to see more?

[Viper]

Whoa! Amazing work! Really touching :)

:applause:

[Larry_g1s]

:eek: OUTSTANDING ! ! !
That was soo great. The story was so cute, and the animation was top notch. This should be on the CGtalk front page.

[fubar3d]

funny thing u can see triangles, coz the particles are a SW-particle clowd, there is no geometry...

but i know what u mean. ;) the problem is the physical simulation. the forces change to fast between the frames which causes a ripping-appart effect. increasing the oversampling might have helped, but the particle HD-cache already was 13GB+. And oversampling only works for caching, not on direct rendering. (At least i didn't get it to work)

joerg

[ALZHEM]

I like very much

[insidemaya]

great work ,i just can't believe my eyes!:applause:

[DigiLusionist]

Thank you for creating such a wonderful piece. I enjoyed watching it very much.

[Fitharn]

Definatly frontpage material... the fire nearly made me cry :cry:

Great modeling and especially animating:thumbsup:

[jah]

simply beautifull :applause: :beer:

[D_Nice]

The concept was very good and the overall presentation and story were excellent.

I liked the particle fire, but found the particles to not be quite turbulent enough when the character was blowing away at the end. Overall I loved it.

[noisewar]

BRAVO! I love origami, have always been waiting for someone to tackle it in 3D. Great job, we need to see more stuff like this! How about a sequel with Robert J. Lang's instrumentalists? Takes me hours just to fold it, wonder how long it'd take to animate.

Thumbs upppppp!

[Chaos Maximus]

Hey,

That was awesome, esp cause i was doing oragami last night with my japaneese teacher.

what was atsuatsu supposed to mean? my dictionary says 'pipping hot'

anyway it was awesome, you may want to look for a plugin like the foil plugin for max, it adds a little thickness to planes, i think without the actually geometry. or perhapse a displacment mapcould give a little thickness.

good luck with the work

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