Dragon.aikido

[shadowedge]

Here are a couple of images from the short.

http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h273/ninjei/DRAGONAIKIDO_sample1.jpg


http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h273/ninjei/DRAGONAIKIDO_sample2.jpg


This short is a tribute to some of my favorite things... Dragons, Aikido, Animation and so on....

[shadowedge]

Here are a couple images of the model I used :wip:

http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h273/ninjei/dragonmodelA.jpg

http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h273/ninjei/closeup.jpg

[mxdirector]

post it on youtube.

[mistasam02]

Yea.. on T1 I'm only getting 35 kb/s. There's no reason this should be 90mb+ lol :D

[shadowedge]

Allright,

I orgininally didn't want to put it on youtube, but what the heck... here it is :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSbKroR7j04

C&C please... hehehe

[vekien]

I downloaded the high quality one the other night when you initially posted. I got 300-500 kb/s XD

Very nice, I liked first impressions. You do need a better camera though lol can tell it's a bit fake.

The animation is a big jaggy and fast, but still pretty good none the lessy, the SFX are great, the best bit, i really liked them. Awesome stuff.

This would of been great if you could of done a CG area, and green screened the guy fighting, then you could of had better lighting and such. Good job.

[shadowedge]

hey thanks!

:) yeah, I sure wish I had the chance to do it on a green screen. I had quite a lot of fun doing this. Plus it was my grilfriend's 1st time to shoot anything like this...

The guy on the video ~ that was me hehehehe...

[shadowedge]

http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h273/ninjei/Body_Pass.jpg

http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h273/ninjei/matte_pass.jpg

http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h273/ninjei/shadowpass.jpg

http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h273/ninjei/Beauty_Pass.jpg

[shadowedge]

Here's a compositing breakdown of what I did.

Using XSI's multi pass rendering, I first rendered out the armour, which I considered as the main/beauty pass of the dragon.

The secondary main pass would be its body. The dragon is supposed to be a ghostly shadow apparition wearing solid armour. So to do this, I rendered the body in its own pass giving it a toon shaded material with highlights set on low values. In AFX, I gave the body a 60 % transparency, and a little blur to soften it up. But i needed to place the body layer on top of the armour layer so it doesn't get covered up. That creates a layering problem.

To solve the issue, I rendered out a white matte pass, but I created a separate partition with a red constant material for the armour. In AFX, I keyed out that red material so that the holes would be where armour is supposed to cover. I also used a matte choker to further shrink the matte.

Going back to the body, I needed to use set matte so that it extracts a new alpha from the white matte pass. I placed the matte layer in its own precomposition so that the alpha exctraction could work the way I needed it to.

The final touch was adding the ground shadow under the armour and newly made body layers. To do this I had a black solid layer extract its matte from the shadow pass. I placed the newly created shadow uner so that the shadows on the armour wouldn't show. I gave it the same transparency and blur settings to match the body since it was supposedly an extension of the Dragon's dark body.

And that is how I made a "Llight breathing ~ Shadow Dragon"


http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h273/ninjei/output.jpg

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