Animation: the Milko Cow

[bigbad]

Wow this is cool.

I´ve seen this on the TV. Now I can download it. :thumbsup:

[Mackan]

yeah i saw this one on tv yesterday i think

nice, but i dont like those kids :)

[bigbad]

btw the Behind the scenes stuff are really cool too.

[Creature]

:buttrock: :beer: :buttrock:

How did you create the clean plate for the water splash? I imagine it as extremly difficult to paint out the foot from the splashing water?

[BladeFX]

very nice :applause:

[Rotamus]

yeah i wish more ppl would do behind the scenes stuff ... :buttrock:

[GrafOrlok]

Thanks guys. Glad you liked the "behind the scenes"-part. About creating the clean plate for the watersplash: It was suprisingly easy because we used a black draped foot when filming. I will ask Martin, who painted it out, how he pulled that through. Probably I am over simplyfying it...:rolleyes:

I forgot to say: we used Maya for all modeling and animation and did all compositing in After Effects and in Avid DS/HD. Some shots where as many as 80 layers all in all I believe (I'll have to check that with Nordis... sounds pretty unbelievable...). As you can see in the behind-the-scenes material the cow itself was built up in several layers just to get that subtle furry look.

Staffan Linder
Lead animator
___________
Fido Film AB

[TheGreenGiant]

That's pretty sweet stuff. BUmping it up and I recommend anyone with bandwidth to check it out. More please

:thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup:

[big]

I love that commercial. My favorite one is the one when he's standing in the window looking down on the street, one of the first one with him in it. :buttrock:

[mracer]

Cool commercial!! I love the AE86 ;)

[GrafOrlok]

I love the AE86

That was done digitally. It actually rubs off a little when the guy sprays the wall...:p

[icky]

Fantastic little ad. I found it compelling from start to finish.... you guys did your jobs well for me.

Animation wise, the belly wobble was a nice touch, when the cow gets hit by the car. I like the running camera pans also. It all adds to an exciting piece.

:thumbsup:

[lildragon]

Very cool commercial ;) it's always refreshing to see things like this from the other side of the planet, job well done! [plugged] the water splash was excellent btw ;)

salud

[Mr Nice]

Hey nice work! Haven’t seen it on the tv yet. I really don’t like those kids at the subway always picking on the cows :p

I didn’t like the music that much, but that’s just my opinion.

[kr3ml]

ey , horunge...yao, v'a'rsta bra jobbat l'a'n!

Trans: Nice work !!

[Buck]

Is this the legendary "Fjällräven" or am I mistaken? :)

[baby]

very good work...

poor little cow :(

[Tottebias]

Snyggt jobbat!

[baby]

how did you clean the water splash shot ?!?
:surprised

[anieves]

very cool stuff. The artist that painted the foot out did one hell of a job.

[Franc]

:rolleyes:
ha ha ha~~~~~~~;)

[CGmonkey]

I love this.. I love the other commercial with him in his apartment looking all sad and stuff because he longs home to the farm.. :)

Awesome stuff! :thumbsup:

[Cynical_Saint]

ROFL, that was great man. Animation was superb too. Especially the "belly jiggle" when he rolled over the hood of the car.

Well done. :)

[gL_spear]

Smartly done, i like it! :thumbsup:

[jecal]

cool ... :buttrock:

could you tell us which renderer was used ?

- Maya builtin
- Mental ray
- Renderman
- ...





:shrug:

[bigray]

Downloading now, I loved the still frame, so I'm sure I'll like the movie.

:beer:

[mental]

great job Graf :thumbsup:

with all the subtile details added you can tell your team had fun doing that spot.

congratulations

-mental :surprised

[fr3drik]

Always nice to see swedes posting stuff! ;)

[xasteycracker]

great work. it was really funny. the music went well with the animation too.:thumbsup: :thumbsup:

[Wigaru Wiyamoto]

Wow, looks awesome!

[phoenix]

nice ...........work..........


what renderer u used:thumbsup:

[GrafOrlok]

Wow, plugged... What a response!

*The water splash: I don't really remember who did the paint job. Martin Malm and Pablo Diaz did all compositing and I remember talking to Martin about it and he said it went quite well doing that because of the black foot... Today someone here said Pablo did it though, and both are on vacation right now so I can't ask:D I guess they cloned from previous frames and tweaked the results. They used some sort of displacement to fake the refractions. And hey, please take notice of the remaining watersplash in the background of the following clip. It's all fake!

*The roll over the car: it's one of my favorites too. I used a lattice deformer to deform his body where it hits the car hood and there's a slight jiggle effect on the belly, but most of the soft bouncyness is just careful keyframing and weighting... The tail was driven by a softbody IK-spline throughout animation and here is a rare occation where it actually does what I wanted it to do. The car is all from the live footage except for shadows and reflections. It was painted out to get that little extra bounce and Johan Nordensson, who did all shading/texturing/lights, put these extra reflections that made the hood buckle a little, just for the final touch.

*Renderer: We used Maya's native renderer throughout the gig. We felt that we needed to use it to get the fur rendered without problems (yeah, right!). It took a week to render all the layers, and of course, we had to do it again a few times:rolleyes:

And on the behalf of the Fido staff: thanx for all the nice words.

[sin]

god damn it ! ..i hate this ! :buttrock: :thumbsup: :applause: :airguitar

great work ! congratulations !

[jazzman121]

hey do u know what camera they used for the video ???

[robin]

im not sure about it, but i think i saw something similar on Tv yesterday ...

[JamesMK]

Very grand of you sir to make those 'behind the scenes' scenes... Excellent. It's always fascinating to see how you can never dodge solid planning and lots of honest hard work :D

Eftersom jag också är svensk så betyder det här förstås automatiskt att jag också skulle kunna göra actionsekvenser med kor som huvudpersoner. Next up: Mamma Mu ;)

[Frank Dodd]

Excellent piece of animation work certainly a job well, thank you very much for the behind the scenes clips too, its nice to see the effort you put in to achieving the realistic detail in making it feel as though the cow was really there in particular the sequence where the cow bounces over the car.

I can't fault this one very nice work all around :applause:

[CLAW]

Nice stuff, saw it broadcasted yesterday. Immediately I thought that this must be Fido! And, yeah.. I was right:)

The only thing thats bothers me is the fur in some angles.

[JamesMK]

Originally posted by CLAW The only thing thats bothers me is the fur in some angels. [/B]

Bwaahaa! Yeah, I always try to stay away from furry angels too! They're scary things I tell ya! :D :D :D

sorry... mehheh... couldn't resist

[CLAW]

sorry, I meant angles:)

[tsakson]

Very Cool!
Liked the behind the scenes too.
Thanks!

[unclebob]

that is frick'in great. very well done. I loved the roll over the car, but the greatest is the end ... posing infront of the vending machine... just too funny.:applause:

I wish we had cooler commercials like yours, here the States a lot of ours are mindnumbingly stupid. :annoyed:

bob

[Per-Anders]

hehe, loved it, i loved the milko music machine as well...

but it appears that the site's no longer there for it! waah.

oh well, great work :)

[CLAW]

Graf Orlok, why is that cow hated so much? I kinda feel sorry for that poor fellow:)

[GrafOrlok]

Graf Orlok, why is that cow hated so much? I kinda feel sorry for that poor fellow
What?:surprised I've only heard people react to these pesky little brats:p

I wish we had cooler commercials like yours, here the States a lot of ours are mindnumbingly stupid.
Thanx. But I must say one of my alltime favorites is Carl and Ray from Tippet studios for blockbuster video. But they're in a whole different league... Wish we could do that quality. This was as far as I know the first time a character was integrated like this in a commercial here in Sweden. But let me tell you, the budgets over here is so different from in the States, that our budget would only go as far as preproduction in the States. So with this tight budget and only about 5-8 guys working on it (the PP I mean) I think we got quite far...
But it was fun. :beer:

[GrafOrlok]

We've updated the behind the scenes with more clips and also more accurate clips. Enjoy.
New Behind-the-scenes (http://www.fido.se/cgi-bin/Media_Archive/imageFolio.cgi?direct=0003D_Style_Anim/008Milko/500Behind_The_Scenes)

Staffan Linder
Animation Lead
___________
Fido film

[CLAW]

Looked into this animation a bit more, it's really great! Hope more commercials will have CG like this in the future!

Things that could be worked on though:

Better Lightning, the cow look sometimes plastic, but as I understand you had a deadline!:)

The compositing work is nice. Really enjoy to watch the behind the scenes movies. What is it, After-FX? Shake?

Keep up the good work!

[Rmac36]

Man that was cool! I love the character!
I especially liked the effect of the cow hoof in the puddle> Awesome!:airguitar

[MasterZap]

Men hallå! Den var ju på tv typ nyss! !! !!! !!!!!!

(= "Hey! It was on TV just now" in the tounge of the only true Vikings)

Very Well Done! Fab!

Hey guys, need any help - hint hint (http://www.kidwars.com/intermezzo/)?

/Z

[MasterZap]

Oh guys, FYI, none of my computers (all PC, one brand new outta-the-box XP machine) shows your webpage properly.

www.fido.se click in the "flash site" link... nothing happens. Page loads with a "Page loaded but with errors".

Does anyone else have this problem? (And yeah I have flash)

/Z

[GrafOrlok]

That's strange! Obviously mine at work shows everything OK, brand new, and so does my home PC which is very old. However I've noticed that when your Java and Flash settings aren't optimized you get an error message... Dunnu

Oh, and Master Zap, take a look here: http://www.cgtalk.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=68892

Staffan

[tobe90]

excellent work! but nothing other was expected from Staffan and the guys at Fido. that's one crazy cow for ya.
btw the fido site works fine on all my computers xp as well as 2000, all SP's installed. Thats a really nice site, I really love the rolling boxes/frames/thingies. But why, oh why aren't you listed in the staff section, Staffan?:shrug:

[MasterZap]

I dont know, I just telli'n ya how I see it.

I go to www.fido.se, front page, try to click the "modem" or "broadband" and nothing nada happens.

If I go into the project archive, and from THERE click a site link, it works (and a great looki'n site it is!). It's just the entry on the frontpage that doesnt run .... seems to me something is off w. the script on that page? IE sez script error to me.

Just tryi'n to help thats all :)

/Z

[MasterZap]

Aha! Embarressed to say but it was a "PICNIC" (= Problem In Chair, Not In Computer" :) ):

Click on the little blue squares, which I did -> Nothing happens

Click on the actual *text* that reads "modem" or "broadband" -> WORKS

You should consider making the li'l blue squares to the right of the actual text klickable too. Sure threw ME off. :)

/Z

[GrafOrlok]

Tobbe! You're too kind. Great to hear from you. Hope all is well over at IdolFX. There's a technical issue that stops us from updating some of the pages at the site. We're working on it whenever we got time (yeah, right).

Glad it worked out for you Master Zap:rolleyes:. You know, the mouse arrow turns into a pointing finger whenever there's a link... I think there's a chapter in "Windows for Dummies" on that...:p Just kidding!
:scream:
Sorry, just couldn't resist.


edit: loadsatypos

[rrobert]

What do I have to say? I know...

http://www.vi2.com/getFile/188416.gif

[FCBS]

mmmm... Fjällfil...

:)

[facial]

Downloading, Well, I love this character design, should move interesting in the clip..:bounce:

[MasterZap]

You know, the mouse arrow turns into a pointing finger whenever there's a link

And this is EXACTLY the problem; The mouse IS a pointing finger there (because the whole image is a clickable link linking to self ("#") and your actual links are in the JavaScript). So I click. Nothi'n happens.

Thought you had me there, hmmm? ;)

/Z

[facial]

Hey, Very coooooooooooool commercial. I love the idea.
:D
Well done.

[Sherif.Nagib]

AWESOME TRACKING

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