Animation:RUN, DRAGON, RUN!!

[lildragon]

Thx Ricardo ;) check the frontpage, once again great work bud.

salud

[tjbeseda]

PLUGGED! sweet stuff. i like your style....really enjoyed it!

[kr3ml]

I think I've seen this in WIP befor ...

Edit: Now i've seen it ,... very nice style very good aninmation ... but the story ..hmm.. well .... you could have done it better...:hmm: ... othervise very good :D :thumbsup:

[lmc]

Yup...i still remember the WIP thread....welldone...:thumbsup:

Academy of Art College ?! do u know a buddy call "YANG ZI" ?!

[ed209]

Great short, I love the mix of 2D and 3D. The design of the little dragon is great and despite some limitations that I thought he may have you've done an incredible job with his animation. Students pay attention to this short, it shows how keeping things simple can pay off in the end.

Two thumbs up.
:thumbsup: :thumbsup:

[RADiator]

I LOVE IT!!! ITS GREAT!!!:buttrock: :buttrock: :buttrock:

[PaxtonGerrish]

WOOOO HOOOO
killer !!!!:applause:

[ToastMan]

Ummm... Your site doesnt seem to load.

Nevermind I got it. I'll post my thoughts later after I watch it.

[ToastMan]

LOL! I loved it!! I really liked the cartoon style, really humoristic.

[Soulstorm]

the movie is loading damn slow, i guess thats because so many cgtalk users are viewing it now. so far it looks kick-ass :D

[fattyLees]

Hey Ricardo-

Awsome short...
Glad I got to be a small part of it and watch the story take shape from the begining.

What are you working on next?

-Eric

[sebek27]

very cool ! how were the background done ? is it 2d or 3d and some type of cell render ?

[Gilgamesh]

Nice to see this on CGTalk. This was definately my favorite piece at the spring show. Good job!

[CharacterTD]

downloading........ :drool:

[muckymouse]

That is beautiful...Still havn't downloaded the movie yet, is way to slow for 56k...Anyway nice to see somthing so good coming outta the academy, im in my second year right now, and you're work is very inspiring. Keep it up!!!


- RUnyon

[d4rk]

HA HA HA! This is totally cool!

[cgbinho]

GREAT WORK biriba!!!!
i saw some WIP sketches from the 3donline foruns... i was looking forward to see your short finished, and turned out awesome!!! great style dude!!

parabéns velho!!!!!!

[hakkston]

mando BEZASSO cara

parabens!
:buttrock:

[SketchPad]

Would have LOVED to see it but.....

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Hope you get it up on another server.
Cheers,
SketchPad

[feefunk]

Originally posted by SketchPad
Would have LOVED to see it but.....

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Hope you get it up on another server.
Cheers,
SketchPad

Maybe lildragon can come to the rescue with one of those "mirroring" tricks he's so good at!

;)

[AndreKling]

Hey Dude, i couldnt download your file yet, hope i can do it soon. Congatut anyway.
Po eu nao sabia q tinha brazuca na Academy of arts nao, po me manda um email eu moro perto de sao francisco e seria uma honrra conhece-lo, meu email e andrekling@uol.com.br.
Parabenz cara.
Andre Kling David

[lildragon]

Originally posted by feefunk
Maybe lildragon can come to the rescue with one of those "mirroring" tricks he's so good at!

;)

;) first post, we need more mirrors! Anyone that can help would be tres cool.

salud

[biriba]

I'm really glad with all this positive response.Thanks a lot guys.
I'm working hard trying to find someone who could help me with some others mirrors. I wasn't expecting so many hits today:)

I'll let you know as soon as I have some news. Meanwhile if someone wants to do some charity by helping me out with this issue, just drop me a line.

Thanks so much,

ricardo@biriba.net

[lildragon]

Sorry had to pull it off our servers, there's just way to much happening today, even more so than usually :argh: searching for other mirrors

Tito

[dutch]

http://www.testroete.com/stuff/run_medium.mov

there it is.

[DZL]

this li'l guy kicks ass. i love the style and simplicity of the character...

i need to see the animation!

[kerux]

Cool!!! :bounce:

Mirrored it, see top post...(#2) or use this link:
Run dragon mirror (http://www.student.kun.nl/m.vanderheijden/run_medium.mov)

[Fitharn]

OMG! That was so freaking awesome. I think it's one of the best I've seen on this site (and that means a *lot*).

The militia who are only visible with their helmets were great :D

The animation is fabulous and I like the drawing/cartoon/3d mix of styles.

Big A+

:buttrock:

[AWAKE]

Yeah!


SO worth the download time.. Really really nice work.

[chicken]

great job man ... very funny ... i enjoyed it


Another mirror if you need it (http://www.stiraboutlane.com/run_medium.mov)

[lildragon]

oooodles of mirrors in the 1st thread now. Enjoy guys and big thx to those who gave a piece of their bandwith! Now that's a community!

-lild

[konst]

WOW:eek: :eek:

That was a great movie. I dig the story but the best thing was the cartoon style.:love:


Keep up the good work!!:thumbsup:

[jtk77]

Honestly, that was one of the funnest things I have seen in a very long time. I hope great things come.
That was wonderful. Made my day

[Emersive]

Your work is really inspiring. Great Job on it, I love the character, the animation was done well extremely great... nice work!
:applause:

[enzodiac]

truly a master piece ! really great work :D i love them little knights hahaha :applause: :applause: :love:

[CuTnPaste]

Hey,

great direction, great idea and great look !!

amazing!


CuTnPaste

:applause: :applause: :applause: :applause:

[Thekkur]

awesome! and typicly irish too :) but that's prolly just because of the music.

one thing bothered me though: not all of the sound effects were very nice. some of em didn't really fit into the overall picture, and this worked kinda enstranging. (is that a word? I meant'that they make you cané entirely lose yerself in the story)

[mattmos]

Fantastic stuff, the economic use of 2d/3d works like a charm!
Loved the sheepish smile at the end :applause:

[zandernice]

Hello, I would first like to say that is this is a trully wonderful piece.

the other thing I would like to ask is how do you like the art academy. I started taking my first class there this week and I am going for my BFA in animation. Its hard to get a good Idea about what I can expect in the higher level classes. How was your experience?

thanks

[Kananga]

arrhggghhh...cant....seem to....download...

I loved the 2d/3d style in the still images though. Very inspring work.:buttrock:

[thms__0]

i love this moviehttp://www.cgtalk.com/newreply.php?s=&action=newreply&threadid=70337#http://www.cgtalk.com/newreply.php?s=&action=newreply&threadid=70337#http://www.cgtalk.com/newreply.php?s=&action=newreply&threadid=70337#

[fluxgrafx]

let's see...
Add some Lion King, a smidgen of Ren and Stimpy, some Labrynith, and a touch of this and that...oh yea..and cant forget the Geris game. Top it off with a dash of origainality and you got a short there. I'm speaking in terms of acting choices btw. The idea is kinda ok i guess...but a fart joke is a fart joke. Also it drags like crazy when he's at the cliff...I almost turned it off. Believe me, I can bet I'm not the only one who sees it. Keep going. Good work overall.

[rayz]

excellent work, very funny ....... love it how you mixed the 2d and 3d look :beer: kind of reminds me of legend of zeld - the wind waker ------ with the music and all..

beautifully done :thumbsup:

[L0rd]

Implimentation brilliant, luv the models the scenes, the animation, clever way of avoiding animating "crowd of angry warriors."

Liked the style, though...

...have to agree with fluxgrafx on many points there, particularly the drawn out clifftop anticipation.

but hey I laughed, and felt genuinely involved in the experience.

Call me childish but I kinda like fart jokes, and reckon there are still plenty of kids out there two who do as well.

I'll be keeping an eye (twitching included) out for more.

Cheers,

L0rd

[BlueCougar]

Great job getting it all together. I also was left wondering with the cliff sequence but it played well in the end.

Got me feeling jealous, I need to get a project out one of these days!

Kenn

[chewaka]

:buttrock: weeeeeeee, great look and animation

Excellent Work.

:applause: :applause: :applause:

[Cod]

:applause:


I'm new to the whole CG/Animation scene, but I must say, that short was absotuley amazing. I never thought I was gonna stop laughing after it was over. Hopefully you have another short in the making right now involving the dragon.

Congrats again on a job well done.

[muckymouse]

Beautiful. I hope you keep us updated on your website as to what your next project is!!

= RUnyon

[Throbberwocky]

WOW!!! :eek:

This is definitely the best short I've seen in ages!!! Amazing style, exciting expression, superb animation and a hilarious story! Really great great work! I wanna see MOOOORE!

:love: it!

[SketchPad]

LOL!!!
That movie was hillarious! Nice work.

Cheers,
SketchPad

[facial]

Well done, Keep post up more/
The dragon is funny,:thumbsup:

[squeezestudio]

the story is great ... the desing is great and the animation are amazing !!!! . congradulation !

[rrobert]

Here is what I think about your enviroment:

http://www.vi2.com/getFile/188480.gif

[Rmac36]

I second that. Very original. Loved the story. Loved the characters. very funny. Oh yes and loved the music too. Amazing.:bounce:

[peanuckle]

Wonderful Job Man I really like the lil' knight helmets chasing him around...:)

Supremo WORK!

pea~

[Pinionist]

This is briliant! I love the design and colors. Composition is great, those 2D backrounds makes me fell...:drool: . I hope, that there will be more guys, who's going to vizualize theirs ideas in some other, more interesting way. Simply: Rocks :buttrock:

[Psybah]

Beautiful work! I love every aspect of it. Colors, shots, character animation.... everything! Awesome!

[spiff73]

hey ricardo. it's Moonsung. congratulations on finishing up your project!! i know how rewarding it is. make sure to send it out to festivals all over the world. animation is looking great and the stylization is very nice.

[woadiestyol]

Ha ha ha! This is great! I love the sound effect when the dragon is shaking the trees, it made me laugh!:thumbsup:

[biriba]

Thanks a lot guys, I really appreciate all the comments, that kind of feedback is awsome. This was my first attempt to make a short film, and I have to admit that the best way to learn is doing it. It was so fun that I'm already working on my next one. I hope it'll better than the first :)

To my Academy of Art College peers: if you want, you can check it out my thesis project dvd at the library. There you'll find the film, layouts, skecthes, animation tests and all the good stuff. :thumbsup:

Biriba
ricardo@biriba.net
www.biriba.net

[katon]

wow that was amazing, i loved the style of the short, and i also liekd the ending, serves them right for shooting arows at him. hahahaha, great job.:applause:

[I animate]

Bravo !!! :applause: :bounce: :applause:

[msouza]

Coool Biriba...I know how hard your work to finish this short movie, to your Art College.

Great animation, and i just love the stilish painted backgrounds. The character Design is very cool too ! :)

You're very talented and modest guy. I am proud to be you friend. :)

[m-greenwood]

Very nice work, mate.
The style of the whole piece was very good and I loved the colour schemes. The knights were the icing on the cake.
Keep up the good work,
Cheers.

[Oktavian]

The hole thing is absolutely awesome !! :thumbsup:

[Kananga]

Thats the best thing Ive seen in a while! Nice animation and great pantomime, the dragon is a really cool character!

[lildragon]

What more can I say ;)

You have received the CGtalk choice award .Please feel free to display this image anywhere you like! Excellent work!

upon receiving this award, it guarantees you a spot in the cgtalk gallery hall of fame (http://gallery.cgtalk.com) - which you are now placed

http://www.cgtalk.com/plug_award/cgtalk_award_june03.jpg

P.S. Please email me @ tito@cgnetworks.com so I can send you the award .psd file

salud

[Pinionist]

Biriba, you really deserved this award. Congratulations! :beer:

[mehdianim]

:thumbsup: :D
I love the design real tight stuff! althought I was expecting something more along the lines of a children's story, the explosive gas in the end caught me off guard :surprised .
Anyway I enjoyed watching it, great short!

Mehdi

[mister conehead]

wow, very good animation. i like the style of moddeling and animation. Very original animated! :bounce:

[HowardM]

very cool style!
so what was this done in? Maya?
how did you do the nice wispy smoke when the guys are charred?? 3d? 2d?

[biriba]

Thanks HowardM,

All the 3d stuff was done in Maya and the compositing in After Effects. The backgrounds and textures were painted in photoshop.

About the nice smoke.....well, I cheated a little bit and used some smokes from the Artbeats cds:)

Cheers,

Biriba

[dimitrios_c]

Awesome? Yes indeed....the only bit that didn't quite do it for me was the fact that he seemed to linger at the edge of the cliff for too long before actually coming up with ways to escape. Yes, I am nitpicking, but there isn't much else wrong with it. Technically it's a proffesional piece of animation. :applause: :beer: :applause:

[barkerc]

Wonderful mix of 2&3d. Love the poses, the 'dilema' cognition especially. Thinks:
Perhaps the "running away against the sky" shot, looking up at the character could have some more mis-en-scene to tell us how quick he's moving?
I found myself wondering "what's keeping the knights"?
The shot at the end, with the dragon doing the show...perhaps one more arrow shot at him?

Obviously a brilliant shot, all told. Congratulations

[mistica]

hi
your animation was great i loved it.....:applause:

[Danmoreno]

Hey Biriba,

Great 1st movie. Awesome style. When is the next one coming? hehe :D

-Daniel Moreno
www.3dluvr.com/dam
Rio de Janeiro / Brazil

[Solomon_Tsai]

The short film is terrific!:thumbsup:
Neat! I like...

[fluxgrafx]

hey...short is great as i quoted before. a friend of mine and i were doing some chatting about the subject of animation as usual and something intersting came up. the title of your short "Run, Dragon, Run".... any similarity to "Run, Lola, Run"?? the title i mean of course.

[NowhereMan]

Hey biriba,

Thats a trully awesome job u have done huh??!!!:buttrock:

Even if it wasnt your first, it would be still great!

I would like to point something out for the sake of the logic of this forum, to receive critiques that maybe improve your work. (well... or maybe not ) :))

The entire project is far perfect by me, but the climax kinda lacks intensity and that breath-taking feeling of : "go, go stupid dragon, do something, the enemies are too close, move your ass!!!" We have too much time to watch the dragon slowly change betwen expressions and look backwards and forward and we kinda forget about the enemies that are coming, and i think it breaks the flow of the animation a little. Even for a "slow-ass", and "slow-minded" dragon, he could act a little faster.

Maybe your intentions were about doing the stuff just like that, "slow-minded dragon and slow running enemies". But personally i prefere a most intense and breathtaking shooting.

No geral, parabéns cara, muito muito show de bola esse seu curta, prova q vc vai ser um mestre animador q vai escolher onde trampar!! :thumbsup:

abraços!

[banzato]

My opinion is the same of nowhereman. Congratulations for the CGtalk choice award.
Parabens!:thumbsup:

[gmoran]

Hey Biriba,

I saw this when you first brought it to CGTalk and was amazed by it then!!

Now after seeing the entire clip, I'm amazed even more!!

Congrats on the CGTalk Choice Award!! :thumbsup: :applause:

You definately deserve it!! I'd be very surprised if you didn't get one by now!

Cheers!

[gmoran]

Hey Biriba,

One more thing. I'm such a fan of your storybook, painting style, do you plan to have wallpapers available from Run Dragon, Run?

I think many people here, would definately proudly tote your images on their desktops. :thumbsup:



Cheers,

[biriba]

Hey Gmoran,

Thanks a lot for the nice words, I'm glad you liked the film. About the wallpaper, I hadn't think about that before, but since you brought it up, I'll work on it and I'll post a link here later today.

Cheers

[agreenster]

Geeez. Why isnt this on the front page? (or was it and I missed it?)

Nice job! I do agree that it got slow at one point, but it was timing, not the dragon's movement that slowed the pace. Still, nice work. I love the '3D' and '2 1/2 D' mix.

Fantastic. Good luck with everything!

[lesc]

exelent, all people that see your animation here in my work place really enjoy it, very nice stuff:applause:
very creative :thumbsup:

[Kenter]

Cool,like it very much.:thumbsup:

[Mrtvy brouk]

Sweet stuff :)

[calebs]

well done. i enjoyed it. simple and great job on the animation.

[biriba]

Thanks a lot for the comments. It's really rewarding to have such response!
I’d like to let you know that I uploaded three different Run, Dragon, Run wallpapers
to my website. You can go on www.biriba.net/run.html check it out.

Cheers,

Biriba

[Goro]

This is a really amazing short! nice animation
simply great!!

:thumbsup: :thumbsup:

[Blud_Stane]

:beer:

Damn fine work, i loved that... reminded me of Shrek! You should enter this in contests!!! How the hell did you do this, mixing 2d with 3d and the whole process of rendering... you've inspired me to learn.

[DoLeeP]

:thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup:

[Eldar]

One of the best shorts I have seen in a while. The punch line may be somewhat crude, but it still made me chuckle.

The execution is excellent. Some possible timing issues on the ledge as other have noted, but I don't think it is anything major.

Beautiful expressions and 2d / 3d intergration. :)

[Kel Solaar]

Awesome and verry funny!

[Neemo]

:applause: man I laughed really hard, haha, really nice one man, love the textures, good timing in his expressions, and the knights are perfect. good job man!

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