Animation: Ferrari Chase Inside my Head

[Killer_bean]

huge! this is F****** cool animation!!!
me sure that i will find a job for summer;)

[Icarus]

amazing, that was a well set out peice, the sound was worked in well and all, but the fade from song>>Car Screeching was a little bit 2 strong imo,


but overall, very awsome, best of luck with future projects

TyR_

[lildragon]

You've got talent kid, bravo well done. ;) [Plugged] but do spend more time on the character animation aspect of it.

-lild

[Howzat]

Pretty sweet!
It was a little bit sudden transitioning to the explosion, but definitely a cool clip!

[oxygen_77]

good job! I would've liked to have seen the music slow as the cars entered "bullet time" and when the car explodes it definately would've been nice to keep the music going but maybe just toned it down instead of cutting it completely. You did a great job on modeling the environment and vehicles.. the people though could use some work (i.e. textures, clothing design). I think you also did a great job with the timing and synchronizing the music to the action... If you keep at it you have a bright future ahead of you in 3D! Thanks for posting this, I enjoyed watching it!

[Wiz]

ok the clip Rocked!
the transtion of the explosion ,what a tad too much..
all in all great ,really like the tubes going on there :)

but i gotta say ,that song ROCKS!
never heard it be4 ,i just donwloaded it ,what an awesome song!

[Control-Freak]

Very Very nice :)

Loved it alot

I really liked when the dark driver turned into the angel.

The fire in the explosion scene seemed a bit distant from the car towards the end of the explosion.

[ed209]

OK You had me hooked until the race started. Then it just got kind of silly. You need to loosen those characters up a bit. They were way too stiff and floaty the entire animation. The car animation also felt a bit off. Play Grand Tourismo for a good example of car physics. All in all though, a really fun idea but I think your execution was a bit weak. Sorry for being mean, but that's my honest reaction.

[Kid-Mesh]

[ Jaw Drops ]


What the hell is going on in your head kid? LOL !

You got mad skills...keep it up.

[Onno]

Wow, that was awesome!

The surroundings were a bit so so I think: pretty undetailed and boring. But the car animation and the whole idea is sweet.

It had it's ups and downs.

Great work though!

[Gelero]

OHH MY GOD!!! :eek: :eek:

how did you do that AMAZING explosion! :surprised

WRITE A TUTORIAL RIGHT NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
:D

and im serious! :thumbsup:

[RobertoOrtiz]

Kid you have talent to burn.
Good job.
The framing of your shots is really good.

-R

How the heck did you do the slow motion shots?

[jazzman121]

OH MY GOSH loveee the way its directed... could still work on ur charcter animations... but the way it was directed ITS TYTEEEEEEE

[Riptyde]

pretty good animation. I agree that the character animation needs some work (I think that was mentioned in one of the earlier replies). I also think that the enginen noise and soundrack do not mix well. Maybe tone the engine noise down or something

Anyway it still a great start. the transition from live vid to digital was pretty good

Riptyde

[kdub]

wow, so many responses, and my servers is about to bust. thanks! i would take time to respons but i'm scampering to find a place ot put it.

About transition and the character animation...yeah....but i really had to pull this together in 4 months, and at the end...some stuff just didn't pull through....maybe for the next anim i do :)

[Xilica]

VERY NICE FERRARI CHASE

[Hexodam]

so young and so much talent:bounce:

I give you 5 years and you will be working for the big boys :D

[viseff]

That was DOPE:surprised

[mattregnier]

wow--there are people that have been messing with cg and that i know from school that after four years of training they still can't get stuff to look as good as this. you have an incredibly bright future ahead of you. I'd totally hire you man :D awesome job.

nothing else to crit than what others have said...

[MUzza]

*picks up jaw*

amazing

[cbutlerc]

Very well done.
There are some little tweaks that could be done here and there, but all of our work is that way.
I thought it flowed very well.
With the skills you have at 18, dont even worry about a job.
You have many, many years to improve.

[dmeyer]

Whats the name of the song going when the Ferrari's first slide around the corner?

[kr3ml]

I like it ! :thumbsup:

[ryguy]

Very cool animation. However, I think it could do without the Evanescence music. I've seen almost 10 clips now that use that same song.

Other than that, great work!

~Ryan

[aazimkhan]

hmm,...I am downloading it right now...its a bit slow..

the word Car chase caught my attention...and so I have to download it!....i post back commnt after i get it.

[Gelero]

man, how did you do that explosion???

[aazimkhan]

hehe...that was good....
I might be too hard here but...besides character animation improvements...I would also point out the camera movements they were linear...

but........overall it was good...

[MDB101]

Awesome concept in your filming part! the begining totaly reminds me of me. lol getting up 11:33 every god dam day, Looking at all my pictures on my walls LOL! Hard to get up, still dreaming a bit. LOL man that was soo close to me.

Nice start on your CG part too :) your stilll young! keep it going bro your gunna make it big time! the ladder is already there for you to climb.

[KotsVlok]

Dude, much respect...honestly...that age combined with those results...man, you rock :thumbsup:

[plaguelord]

I agree with exodam, In a few years you will work for the big boys, the selection of the music is perfect, and some shoots are very nice, I love the transition to your brain!!! and these streets, wow!:applause: :applause:

[roguenroll]

nice job, looks great, love the slow mo stuff

[dragonz]

Wow, impressive work. I really thought the changing into angel part was ewll played. Besideds anything else, mabye character movement everything else was great. Keep it up!
*the soud cuttig out that the explosion part.....eh...just does not fit.*

[shaangfx]

bravo..u have a talent! wrk more hard and u r there! still at least 4 yrs to go!
at this young age u r on front page..keep wrkin. and yes dont forget character animation!

[slice56]

VERY VERY NICE man! :bounce: :bounce: :bounce:

only thing i didnt like was the transitiion from her to the explosion. it was way too sudden. other than that, the engine noises needed to be muffled a little more so they dont interrupt the music playing. nice work though! :thumbsup:

[redig]

Can anybody tell me why my WMP will play the opening credit animation then freezes on the first frame of the bedroom? The music continues playing, but it keeps the image of the bedroom up. Any ideas?

Im using WMP 9

[Khepri]

you need the newest DivX version.



kevin: very nice stuff :D its come a long way :D

[lildragon]

Credit where credit is due. I have to give you more props man

http://www.3dfestival.com

you seriously have a bright future ahead of you. Incredible what you're producing at your age.

hats off to you

salud

[brittnell]

Great job man...
Awesome that you took your idea all the way.
Best of luck to you (not that you really need it), and I'm sure we'll be seeing more of you.
Cheers,
[/b]

[Popsicle_g]

Wow, nice stuff. I'm 18 too, and I was going to post my stuff.. but now I think I'll wait until I have something better... amazing work man.

[TheFrumpster]

:scream: :scream:
You win, kill me now...
:wip:

[LordShaitan]

Personally i dont see what brazil was used for, maybe you can point that out.

[metal me solid]

du-hu-huuuude! that animation rox O_o seriously, cant believe u did that all by yourself O_O *dies*

Originally posted by dmeyer
Whats the name of the song going when the Ferrari's first slide around the corner?
evanescence-bring me to life

[kdub]

Ok...where to start...there are too many comments to address everyone though that is what i ususally do, but over all thanks soo much for both the good and the crits! A few things, about the music. I used this music long before evanescence became popular. As you can tell it was more or less built around the music. The point is, I wasn't trying to be trendy the song just worked when the idea actually started brewing inside my head :). About the sound issues, all are correct i wouldn't argue a minute.

About brazil, i used no special features at all. I could pretty much render them the same seamlessly minus the kick ass lights cameras and carpaint material. ***BUT**** With a scene with 2, 500k poly cars, 2, 300k poly rigged characters, reflections and a rather long while not complex environment. Max scanline just died...i mean taking 10 min a frame render times cuz of ram handling. Brazil....1000% faster on some scenes (not exaggerating) The renderer truely made this possible. Not to mention the superior image filters :drool: It is important to understand that brazil does great scattering and amazing "pretty stuff" but it is one sweet all-around renderer that will handle anything you can throw at it...reflect it, and then render it faster than anything you have ever seen, on a computer that aint so great.

I guess for the most advanced brazil thing i used was the glossy reflection on the road sign...but regardless, this thing would not have been done until....I would have given up with those scanline rendertimes....(don't kill me discreet, I love everything else :))

[LordShaitan]

Originally posted by kdub
About brazil, i used no special features at all. I could pretty much render them the same seamlessly minus the kick ass lights cameras and carpaint material.. ECT


Thats what i assumed after watching it, i dunder stand i do the same with Final render. Good stuff man, i wish i would have kept up the 3d and i would have been at your point 2 years ago.

[KolbyJukes]

WOW!

I first saw this at school and then decided to download it again when I got home. Very impressive man, the camera work and editing is top notch. I don't care too much for the linear camera, though I do love the composition of your shots - I suppose you really like "the Fast and the Furious". Anyway, great modelling, you have great things in your future.

-Kol

[o-phile]

there were a few things i liked
the idea was pretty cool
but there's certain things i'm sure you could've done better...

:beer: :thumbsup:

[xasteycracker]

man that is some great work you have done. the music went well with the animation. the car model were good as well as the humans. i really liked the part when that guy transformed to and angel that was tight. great work man.:thumbsup: :beer: :buttrock:

[Cyberdigitus]

:bounce: WONDERFUL! but...


great concept, excellent directing (the live action footage even more then the CG)

your framing is good, but the camera motion couldbe more dynamic. and some shot could be timed better or have better cinematic flow. the soundtrack is very well suited and the visuals flow along well with it. sound FX could use work though. models are good, texturing could use some work. characters are stiff indeed, mainly the arms and facial expressions.

i think next to better animation and dynamism in camera motion, the short would benefit most from an even more consistent shading style. i mean i like how the cars have colors and the environment is more greyscale, but this could be taken further. the shading of the characters feels odd. maybe some postproduction could have brought the colors ,shading and filter more like the life action footage. i mean you can go really far here, like even making the explosion fx toon style, if i may carry on from your vision, i think that would work well. great FX on the Angel though.

somethings a bit odd about the story though, when the winner gets out, becomes angel and destroys the car but resues the girl.. but allaz it's a dream sequence.

don't get me wrong here, these critics are only possible because it is executed so well, and so i hope they are constructive enough to keep you going.

maybe with all the comments here and your own, do a retrospect now the work is done, take note of what was good, what was bad, what could be improved upon, what could be left out, added in, ...

You have a bright CG carrer before you, exelent talent and great vision too boot. Keep Going ! wonder where you will be in two years time. - would be great to see a remake by then too :airguitar

[robin]

The idea behind the concept is pretty good, you should watch out however to tell a story in your short ;)

[datter]

Excellent stuff. I think the strength lies in the video shooting/editing myself, much less so in the 3d. You should look into post production. :)

datter

[That Adrian Guy]

why didn't I have the explosion in my download?

[Stupeyfied]

OMFG...me being a car huge car fan, and always love a little slow-mo effects, that had to be the coolest goddamned part of the whole thing...I love that... how it flashed with the music and went into slow-mo.....mmm...scrumptious! Oh, and the rest of it was pretty damn good too! LOL Superb, mano!!!:D :buttrock: :thumbsup:

[CarlosA]

hey bro thats pretty cool,
what kind of work are you looking for??
have you thought about looking for internships?
i think some one in your position may benefit more from the experiance you might gain interning at a game or or animtion firm, than working animating logo's.
i only say this becuse i think your a pritty talented kidd, but you are still very very very ruff, but with the right guidance, in a few years you might working at a good firm doing some cool stuff.
you should also see if you can take some more art and 3d classes too, that is if you are intersted in making a career out of 3d.
ok man,
lates,
Los.

[xynaria]

Although it's far from 'perfect' I find it hard to criticise this because there's so much to commend in it if only the fact that you actually did it and have probably learnt heaps from doing so. Looking forward to seeing where you go next. What did you use for the explosion? :)

[robin]

Looks like afterburner to me, im just speculating however

[Emberghost]

That truely was one of the best 3D shorts I have scene. The intro when the cars first come in just keep you thinking like, "Damn, that is cool!" You deffinatly have a great future ahead of you. Keep at it and you will do fine ....:D

[Cman]

The editing is the strength of this short for me. The explosion is very legit overall.
Live action was very nice.
Great idea!

[ga-analytics]

I like it, great idea, good realization, good models.
But how did you render all this. I simply can`t do that, because my pc would run for months...?

greets&regegards

]gRe[

ah, and good sound, too

[Gremlin]

i mean... if i understood what the hell is going on, i could prolly respect it more than i do, but theres no need, im fully impressed. looks pretty sweet.... i just suggest working on the characters / materials. :D

also, I have some awesome race music.... the song you had didnt seem appropriate, UNTIL I see the angle part at the end :hmmm:
Cheers,
:beer:

[Nicobertlin]

Well ltem me put it like this. In the near future, lets say a couple of years. Not many, just a couple. Then might be one of the guys that are admired by many. You are allready admired by the good people on this forum, i can imagine the word are spreading to alot of places regarding this little anim of yours. Well back to the thing. I do hope you keep the spitit high and keep on doing what you do now. Keep evolving and get to the top. I do think you are on the way there.

Best of luck and regards

[Mahlikus]

if only i had those skills at your age...hell, if I only had those skills.
Amazing job little man!! You keep it up.


:beer: :beer: :beer:

[DJ_soysauce]

nice work. however i must tell you that the music you chose thouroughly blows. very much so.

great explosion!

[dtrimble]

Great animation! seriously I love it.

But here is my crit: The live action stuff was dragging, I almost stopped watching, next time you may want to think about build up through pacing your shots better. Second, the shot of the cars after they slide on screen, introducing the characters seems static because it's a little too straight on after the great right to left action shot that comes before it. Third people have mentioned, the conflict is confused as the angel switches sides with no reasoning. It may have been better to have the guy split too two angels, one light, one dark, and then you could have planned the last shot a little more clear like this: the dark angel grows blade, the chick looks in mirror to see or turns head around to see the dark angel coming, thus maybe you could have her try and evade, or some other kind of action, but her knowing she is gonna fail would make her bailing action more believeable, meanwhile you could have the light angel established as watching also, next she bails, just before the dark splits the car, and the light swoops into the blast, will he save her?, finally you see out of the blast the light angel fly out with her inhis arms sheltering her as best he can and still flying.
That's just one take on it, definitly not the only way to do it, but hopefully gives you some ideas!

[M.Rogne]

The characters aren't superb, but it's lovely anyway.

[mohh]

That was an awesome short. I loved the slowmo sequences!

[Captain]

You have gotten all sorts of praise from people, so i decided to talk about the other things, i mean, how could you grow anyways? I thought it was Extremly Overly Dramatic, The music has become very cliche and concept felt like an excuse for fast and the furious style car chases and matrix slowmos.

And now that your mad at me (sorry :() I will go to the good :)

It is a finished piece and remains constant from beggining to end, congrats, you did something I havn't been able to yet (finish an animation from concept to execution), and no matter what i could gripe about, the fact remains taht your devotion is amazing. Good Job, and Best of Luck :)

By the way, the timing and that flash when the music really starts up and the cars race from off the screen on that drift, that was a beautifull thing. That single few second moment was so well done, beyond proffesional and I can't get enough of it :D (going to watch again, and keeping the flash concept in mind for expermintation)

-Captain (hope the first part wasn't too negative)

[kdub]

50 gigs of bandwidth....goodbye paycheck :buttrock: regardless, once again thanks for all the crits and complements. I would like to adrdess the fact that the music has been used way too much, and also another fact about me personally.

The music. When i first heard this song, long long before it came out in stores or even appeared on the internet...months ago, i got the vision of the 360 modena sliding around the corner in slowmo, just like it did. Later i got the short concept and integrated this shot into it. As you can see the music matches the action to a T more or less, this is due to the fact that I drew up a storyboard, edited together with music, and then animated/rendred frame for frame. I did not make the anim and then add the music. When i first chose to use this music it would have been a better choice, and now i do realize the crazy popularity of it, but it would have been impossible to change the music.

And about me. I should have explained it in the first post, but i love cars, ferraris specifically. And not just love, i mean i go crazy when i see em, ask my friends, they have deemed my reaction the "cargasm". Also I am a crazy thinker, i have the craziest ideas, and this was sorta like a little autobiographic piece.

Otherwise thanks for the comments again, i appreciate all your opinions.

Captain - why would I mind a few crits? I did put it up on a forum of some serious talent. If i wanted to be praised, i would just keep showing it to my friends. I do however know most of its problems, I just didn't have time or the capability to fix them.

[pluMmet]

kdub- I agree with all the complements and screw the nay-sayers.

Can't wait to see what your cg looks like in 5 years. (It's not that long :rolleyes: )


:airguitar

[unwrap]

That's a great movie.
I always wanted to make one, also with cars and blasts and stuff. And the soundtrack is great too. Great car explosion.
Goodluck in your job seeking. :thumbsup:

[lildragon]

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salud

[Mahlikus]

You go boy!!!! Congrats!!
:beer: :applause: :beer: :applause: :beer:

[samtimes]

Afarin bar to!

Really good work Kevin. You have a bright future my friend.

Kheili hal kardam,

[technogirl28]

Your links aren't working to download the video.:shrug:

[viper11885]

download isn't working for me as well.. but looking forward to seeing it asap :D

[kdub]

i see a few people missed it. So i'm putting up the high res and a new really hi res version. If i see bandwidth peeking again, i will take it down, but it will be back next month. Anyway. Here are the links: and i have edited the first post. (it would be nice if you folks would share this in kazaa and other p2p progs. tell your friends :))

http://www.renderpaz.com/idle_1500.avi 50 mb
http://www.renderpaz.com/idle_600.avi 23 mb

[Solesurvivor]

wow, ok, and you're what , 19?? impressive

one side note , take a better quality of the evanescence song, it has nothing to do with 3d i know, but you notice it cuz the other songs are of better quality

but overall, very well done:thumbsup:

[kdub]

server has reached the bandwidth limit so i'm taking it down except for the lowest quality. I will give the adress only by request. If anyone wants to put it up on their page and put a link i would be most appreciative. :)

[Twistedsoul]

Hi, I am new here so didn't see your great as all said ;) video.
So can you send a link?

Best regards.

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