Animation:The Adventures of Captain Blasty

[gary hsu]

amazing work, I love it.............very much, hehe

[DC2002]

its hilarious!! amazing job - and if its for ur demo reel or something like that im sure ull succeed (good luck)

[gary hsu]

by the way, I know what lil dragon will say, so I suggest you get some mirror ok? it's going front page, hehehehhe

[3DArtZ]

Hey that was excellent! I wish there were some fighting scene's with the monster, only cause everything else was sooo cool!

Mike Fitz

[3DArtZ]

I can't believe that this piece has not gotten more responses let alone a spot on the front page.
Maybe people are just not at thier computers today.
Anyhows, again good job on the animation.
Mike Fitz

[T0BER]

Great stuff. :)

I too would have liked to see more of the monster, but a good laugh anyway.

All the best. :)

[Beastie]

Yea that was good, maybe even INCREDIBLE...If you had multiples of this movie you could call them, The Incredibles.... :D Even so, nice piece.

[Lombardo]

Great work.
i loved the clean cel quality render. The old grandma scene had me rolling. you have a great sense of timing which i think is the most important factor in any animation.

[tubby]

hey really great job! A really high energy piece . The music went along really well with the pace of the story, and the animation was very energetic too, I love it!someone plug this badboy!:beer:

[ts9236]

It's amazing.... :applause:

I just love it :love:

[Banshee]

This is really, really good stuff :thumbsup:

I was almost rolling on the floor laughing when the monster appeared the first time and met captain blasty! The best thing is how the monster moves, that´s just perfect :scream:

I just wished the end would be more like the beginning - Maybe it´s just me, but I found the start a lot more funny than the end.

Nevertheless, this is extremely good AND funny stuff!

Why isn´t this on the front page?

[kr3ml]

I think everyone is up for "The Incredibels" , hehe

[Oren Ben-Tov]

Thats a very cool and nice animation short :)
great cuts and editing.
good luck

[DangerousLlama]

lol

love how the monster ran off and when he punched that girl off the bike haha! :applause:

[lildragon]

Friendly advice, find some mirrors pronto, because this is going on both frontpages :) seriously I mean pronto!!.

I hope you're looking for a job, because I'll add a little promo for ya ;) check cgnetworks.com

-lild

[jason-slab]

i think we need some mirrors already!

[AidanGibbons]

Yup im only getting 3.7k/sec here. Will comment when it's downloaded!

[squeezestudio]

nice animation short ..... !!!!!!

[gL_spear]

oooh! thats a sloooow connection, I'll keep checking back for updates ;)

[???]

Bandwidth... :annoyed:

[Milho]

Mirror please! I die to see this one! I need a personal webserver :annoyed:

This looks so great cartoonish!! :applause:

[cgjie]

where is mirror?:scream:
I beleve it should be a very nice work and I think vfs school is
a great place because so many amazing work were burn in there.

BTW:How do you like vfs?
(I had visited the site before.)

[cgjie]

Thanks a lot!
:beer:

[Zmei]

Unable to download the reel, can anyone get it post on a better server?

[John Lee]

I'm having trouble with the link?

[wei0829]

so good~~
thx ~~:applause:

[xeno]

Man i wanna see this!! i do hope those mirrors are here soon!

[dingo]

I can't connect at all. Any mirrors yet?

[steveblake]

Been downloading the reel for the last 4 hours and I'm currently only at 64%...!

:surprised

[urgaffel]

Oi, LilD, can't you be a saving angel and put up a mirror for us?

:)

[Capt. Ney]

man, i feel sorry for the VFS IT dept.

[Signal2Noise]

I gave up downloading it:annoyed:
My work computer is too slow for these types of things. I'll try again on the weekend when I'm back home at my own desktop.

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[ntmonkey]

Hey Guys,

Here's a link to the movie. I'll hold up this link as long as I can. Download it!

Great job on the animation short! Hope you get into Pixar!!!

peace,

Lu


http://www.visualeruptions.com/downloads/mlum_704Reel.avi

r-click Save as....

P.S. You might want to edit your post and put this link up there, Michael.

[Expired-Coupon]

ntmonkey, thanks dude, appreciated. Looking forward to having a gander at this.

[John Lee]

yeah man thank for the mirror downloading now thanks. You da man!

[Vandal]

That's truly amazing work.
Very cool man... that reel will definitly get you somewhere.
I love all the secondary action on EVERYTHING! It's so great.
He's so mean too.. muahahahahh

[ntmonkey]

No problem guys. Just trying to help out one of our own.

peace,

Lu

[Expired-Coupon]

I'll host it for a few weeks once it's finished downloading too. I have plenty of bandwidth going spare.

Edit: Off-topic, how many posts do you need to be able to add an avatar to your profile? I want to finish off my gimmick :)

[NightFox]

Heh.. if my download would finish, I'd mirror it too off my site. lol I don't use alot of my bandwidth, and the month's almost up even.. ;-)

*kicks download* FASTER!! I say! FASTER!!!

[Jon Jones]

Downloading from the generously provided mirror now, albeit slowly... I wonder, what would be involved in CGTalk\CGNetworks perhaps setting up a BitTorrent for front page material?

For those that don't know, BitTorrent is a distributed downloading program that takes the pressure off of the server hosting the file and distributes it very lightly over the people downloading it. The more the people are downloading it, the faster it goes, even for the newest downloads! Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory had some BitTorrent mirrors set up, and since the demand was high for it I was able to download it an hour after release at 300kbps+, and only 20kbps-30kbps of my bandwidth was going upstream as I downloaded. Without BitTorrent, I'd have gotten 5kbps or less, if at all. Best of all is that it's free.

BitTorrent can be found here: http://bitconjurer.org/BitTorrent/

It's a really terrific program, and since demand is so high for this video, it would make sense to do this for the most popular files. I admit, though, that I'm still unsure of what is involved in actually setting one up but I don't believe it would impact CGTalk\CGNetwork's bandwidth since the burden is distributed fairly over the downloaders. :)

Just a thought. Gack, 27 minutes left. :)

[Giant]

Woot!

Great animation. And yes! Oh so mean...! Punching grannies, and little girls, I should feel bad, but it made me feel...happy!

good luck in all!

Giant

[Roman]

aaaah, my connection with the new mirror broke at 89%, bah! and now it's gone...

[baby]

before 1 hour I kill someone in my office !!!! :annoyed:


pleezzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

[richk]

1.7kbps at the mo :D

I second that vote for BitTorrent. No idea how difficult it is to set up the server side of it, but for the user it's dead easy - just install and forget about it. That matrix trailer that came out the other day wouldn't even connect directly, the server was so swamped. Came down at 200kbps via BitTorrent tho :buttrock:

[Expired-Coupon]

Ok, I've uploaded the 22Mb Divx version to my webspace.

http://catharsis.post13.co.uk/uploads/mlum_704Reel.avi

Should be nice and fast, enjoy! :D

[ntmonkey]

Did my link break? It shouldn't have. Let me know please!

peace,

Lu

[Mangled Poly]

Coupon thanks for the link 200k! Yes MT your link broke because vfs servers always drop the links when they get overloaded with bandwidth...

[Damm]

I'm ddl from you link ntmonkey so it's not broken ;D

[Bluplet]

Pretty nifty animation, anticipation could use a bit more work though.

[The Cross]

Originally posted by ntmonkey
Did my link break? It shouldn't have. Let me know please!

peace,

Lu

I don't know if it's broken NTMonkey, I got 12.7 Megs off of it. It did run slow at first. I'll try again.

[Beastie]

I like how whenever someone makes something thats almost a complete copy of star wars, dreamworks, or pixar its an instant hit on CGtalk. :rolleyes:

[urgaffel]

Thanks for the mirrors fellas!

One q for the mods though, why was the plug removed? Is it because the Craig Mullins article is a sticky?

[bentllama]

great overall feel.

i like the zealous effort.

however, in my opinion, one negative thing that really stood out was your [accidental?] overuse of twinning and symmetry in your animation. some timing was also a bit aggresive in parts.

good luck with the imminent job hunt. :beer:

[VYDER]

Much applause for Big D. It's a nice piece.

[Nicodemus]

Pretty cool....I am impressed. Some great work there.......Thanks for the Mirror sites guys. I was getting that 3 hour download on our T1 so I knew something was off.

There are some things to work on but still some really great work. Congrats on the attention I am sure you will get some calls.

He could work on a few of his transitions and some of the anticipation is a little off. But those few niggling things are negligible and definately fixable.

~L~

[Expired-Coupon]

The Divx version will not play nicely for me, I see one still frame every 5 seconds.

Does anyone have the MPG version mirrored? The original isn't available anymore.

[ninjacore]

go to the guys website and download with Download Accelerator. it took me 20 mins!

anyway. i really enjoyed this. its simplistic, yet comical and fun to watch. i supose you will get plenty of "looks like pixars The Incredibles" but i think it rules. its got me pumped to do some 3d!

and did u model all of those buildings at the start? that must have took ages!

:thumbsup:

[Expired-Coupon]

Originally posted by ninjacore
go to the guys website and download with Download Accelerator. it took me 20 mins! As I said, his site, and the files are not available anymore. I guess VFS cut him off for excessive bandwidth useage.

Anyone have the Mpeg mirrored?

[Nick Unden]

Very nicely done. I enjoyed it alot! :beer:

[NightFox]

Mirror DivX : http://www.brianduff.com/mlum_704Reel.avi

Just contributing some of my bandwidth. I got 4.5 gb of bandwidth left until the end of the month. heh.. so fire away!

[|Obscure3D|]

The short is great. You've got some good animation chops, and the overall design is consistent and fun. I wish there were some more sound effects over the music, though. But, since this an animation reel, not a sound design reel, that's not an important criticism.

Makes me want to animate! Inspiring stuff, keep it up.

[fluxgrafx]

looks ok, but reminds me of a bunch of things i've seen before.

[fluxgrafx]

looks ok, but reminds me of a bunch of things i've seen before. for this type of style, it could be snappier in some places. more complex movements would help also.

[mlum]

Thanks for all all of your comments! Sorry about the slow download speed, I thought that VFS could've handled it, but many thanks to everyone who provided a mirror!

I'll still be fine tuning my reel, so your comments and critiques are much appreciated.

[ninjacore]

Originally posted by Expired-Coupon

quote:
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Originally posted by ninjacore
go to the guys website and download with Download Accelerator. it took me 20 mins!
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As I said, his site, and the files are not available anymore. I guess VFS cut him off for excessive bandwidth useage.

Anyone have the Mpeg mirrored?

if they were not aviable how was i able to download it. it was helpful advice, as IE's downloader was having trouble.:)

[pearson]

Very nice man! The towing of the superhero's car reminded me of that fish-hero animation...(the one with the bank robbers)...from a couple of months ago, but the story was still very cool!

[Southern Fist]

righty first of all - that was ****in cool - dble thumbs up from me!!!!

i being a student as well and bein able to produce summit like that would be a miracle.

This guy needs more ****in credit - bein a student as well (no offense) to produce summit like that in college or uni is a massive task - to that quality as well!

the animation was sweeeeeeeeet especially ont eh blue monster, both smooth and fluid! Some really nice slapstick comedy elements !

Over all i would actually give this a 10 out of 10 fer bothe technical abiltity and visual impact.

THIS MAN WILL GO FAR!!

[Voursez]

Wow! Took me a while, to download the movie, but HOLY CRAP! I really like your characters! Really reminds me og Guybrush Treepwood, the greatest adventure hero!

[moroten]

Am I the only one with trouble playing the Divx? I installed Divx5.0.5, had adaware strip away the Gator junk, and then nothing shows up in mediaplayer, just a black square with a "music" type logo as if it was playing some audio CD. Divx still shows as installed in my "Installed Applications" list. Maybe I have to stick with Gator if I want to see divx clips? Btw, the MPG wont download from vfs, guess the servers a little busy.

Some MPG mirror most appreciated!

-Daniel

[Expired-Coupon]

Originally posted by ninjacore
pfffh. if they were not aviable how was i able to download it. it was helpful advice, as IE's downloader was having trouble.
Well, a 403 error tends to imply that the file is no longer there, or access to the file or folder is being denied by the webserver.

Perhaps you were able to download the file because you downloaded it well before I tried, and before mlum's VFS bandwidth limit was exceeded? I appreciated your advice, but using a download accelerator is not going to work when the file in question is no longer there, or the server is denying access.

I get a 403 error on all the VFS links now, including the straight link to his homepage.

[ninjacore]

expired coupon: if you notice the time i first replied, you will have notice it was after the first time u mentioned you were having problems. i replied straight away after i watched the animation. so i dunno what was going on.

[KolbyJukes]

ROCKING ANIMATION! we here in 3d44 love it!

-Kol and the other 3d44ers.

[pearson]

Well, my biggest beef with this piece is that it's just yet another animation featuring a human...I mean come on! Humans have been done to death! It looks just like every other human I've seen; two arms, two legs...boring!

Nowadays, if you want to do something fresh, try a robot or a flying spaceship; something cool! I'm loading my next reel with flying logos! Pixar here I come!

:p

[Expired-Coupon]

Originally posted by ninjacore
i replied straight away after i watched the animation. so i dunno what was going on. Ahh, well never mind :) It's a kicking rad little animation regardless of it's possible influences :thumbsup:

[bentllama]

Originally posted by mlum
I'll still be fine tuning my reel, so your comments and critiques are much appreciated.

check my previous comments for a broad crit.

[Stormy151]

Wow, great job. I always see great stuff from VFS students.

[Jezait]

Nice

[Cararan]

Pretty funny animation. Nice job.

[mehdianim]

pretty fun...although the pacing is a little even so the timing on the gags isn't most efficient. Also sometimes the weight feels off like on the monster's galoping run...
But it's fun. I'll reproach tht the character design looks a lot like Pixar's The incredibles. Mayeb someone already pointed that out...
But overall it's fun though pretty good work out of school that's for sure. You are definitely on the right track.

:thumbsup:

[hackie]

hey Mike!!
this is Ji.
this is the first tiem to see your final-final animation!!
this is awesome!!
i'm so amazed by that!!!
i become speechless dude.... -_-;;

anyhow..
i'm looking forward to seeing you at Maja's place on Thursday.
see ya there!!

coolio

ji.

[Geco]

great work! :thumbsup:

[webfox]

This reminds me of Mike Fetterly's animation "Mother's Day" in many ways... visual style, lighting, animation style, character design (esp. the old lady)...

Is this because of the consistency of the teachers or did you two work together at some point?

Thanks for any info.

[House]

Great animation. What band is playing the song though?

[sixthe45]

top notch:thumbsup:

[gtidhar]

Amazing animation!

:buttrock: :buttrock: :buttrock:

It has a great cartoonish feeling to it and the movements are done wonderfully!

I gotta understand something...How far were you from this technical level before you attended VFS? :hmm:

[nathan 3d]

I am having trouble playing it too! I have downloaded from two different locations, and it still won't play. And I HAVE DIVX 5.5 installed! I know, I use it every day. I duno, I'll back this up on CD and play it after I reformat at the end of the week.

I hope it works then!

[psumo]

It's great!

I loved it. The music really works well with the story.


The only thing I didn't like much is the super GI domelight feel to it

[quazee]

Animation is great...If your going for the Pixar style which I think/KNOW you are...
The superhero charecter however is just too much of a blatant rip off of the charecter from the upcoming INCREDIBLES flick from non-other than Pixar, I really think you should have designed him a bit differant...Inspiration is one thing...but Copyright infringement is NOt kool...I'm sure someone from Pixar will see this and perhaps offer you a job based on your animation skills...however....if the wrong Pixar rep sees it, and if he happens to be looking for creativity...it might really flatter him OR it might piss him off to see such a rip-off...

Good Luck with the job search...

[m-greenwood]

I really enjoyed that!
Well done.
Loved the blue monster...
:beer:

[baby]

it's a pity all the posts, where he explains that he started the short very long time before the incredible trailer was shown, are gone.

[Javier3D]

Originally posted by quazee
Animation is great...If your going for the Pixar style which I think/KNOW you are...
The superhero charecter however is just too much of a blatant rip off of the charecter from the upcoming INCREDIBLES flick from non-other than Pixar, I really think you should have designed him a bit differant...Inspiration is one thing...but Copyright infringement is NOt kool...I'm sure someone from Pixar will see this and perhaps offer you a job based on your animation skills...however....if the wrong Pixar rep sees it, and if he happens to be looking for creativity...it might really flatter him OR it might piss him off to see such a rip-off...

Good Luck with the job search...

He had no time to do all this stuff after seeing the incredibles trailer.....

Really nice!!! We all had a laugh here at the studio!!

:applause:

[phoenix]

very impressive:cool:

[Mechis]

The divx version doesn't work here either. I just installed the new divx codec too! HELP!!!!

[garyturner]

it rocsk :buttrock:

[gL_spear]

Amazing, worth the wait... alot of time and effort went into that animation...

Only crit would be the sidekick getting hit by the car happens a little to fast before i noticed the Van halfway down the street.

[WON]

:drool: AWESOME....I lost my words :drool:

[Remi]

Well, i've downloaded every version that was posted and it seems that everytime I tried to view it, it crashed my machine. It might be a problem on my end but I don't know what it would be.....just thought I would let you know in case anyone else has similar problems....oh well....i'd like to see it still but it doesn't seem as if i'll get to.:sad: :banghead:

[nathan 3d]

if I counted right, four other people including me are having that problem :annoyed: I have no clue what it is but its pissing me off. I want to see this :D

[webfox]

Sounds like the newest version of DIVX (or something) isn't compatible with a previous version for some reason.

Is there a new update for the windows media player that might be causing this problem?

I could view the file just fine. It was pretty entertaining.

[Javier3D]

Open it in Premiere.....:blush:

[sqitso]

AMAZING.. That was really cool. I would like to know why so many people think this was a rip off of The Incredibles? If you did rip off the character from that movie, do you want a job? Because if you created that entire animation after seeing the incredibles trailer, you are one fast mofo and defineltly need to be hired :) On a side note, I think it would be very difficult in today's erra to make an original square jawed super hero.

P.S. can I ask what technique you used for the train scene? When the are on the roof and the cirty if scrolling behind them. Did you just have the train running a track around a round city street?

[mlum]

It seems that some people are having trouble with the DIVX version. It should work if you try playing it in the Divx Player. If not, I've posted an mpeg version here:
http://www.powow.com/mlum/mlum_320Reel.mpg
I guess I'll mention again that the character in my reel is not a rip-off of the guy from "The Incredibles". I finished all of my chracter design and modeling before the trailer was ever released.
House:
The music is by the band Artichoke (http://www.artichoketheband.com).
sqitso:
The train is actually stationary, with the background moving behind.

[Skyraider3D]

Wicked! :thumbsup:

[Expired-Coupon]

Sorry, I had to remove my mirror of the Divx file. It cleared 15Gb of bandwidth overnight, and maxed me out for the month :D

Happy to help though. :thumbsup:

[coffeepenguin]

Very nice animation, loved it.
The character remindes me a lot of that playstation game Blasto.

[lala7]

ooooh man .. this was awsome.. specially liked the...
.. well liked everything.. :beer:

[MadMech]

hey mlum you gonna return my email?

[TacoGrande]

what is the band playing, i cant see the full title =D ITs a superb job =D i love the story and idea =D:applause:

[tetujin]

hey mike, i dunno if you're still reading this thread, but congrats on everything. you worked real hard all year, and i envy your character design skills. it will be awesome to be working with you during the scholarship term!

-tony.

[-YoD-]

Nice work Man, nice work :)

[NightFox]

:eek: :eek:

Ok.. so I check before work today and I'm still sitting around 500Mb of bandwidth for the month, no biggie.. I just look now... 15.9Gb bandwidth used for the month?!? My site supposedly had a limit of 5 gb/month... why they allowed it to go past that much usage is beyond me.

Anyways.. the file is now removed from the site. Heh. hope the 650 or so people used the link enjoyed the super fast download.
:buttrock:

Was fun to host it while it lasted Mike. :applause:

***EDIT*** Going thru my logs of my site, it seems someone posted my mirror to a Russian site : www.3dfly.com That was the majority of the log downloads of the movie. 2/3 from there, 1/3 from Cgtalk. I should have set it to only allow Cgtalk downloads.. heh.. Cuz that's where I wanted the link to be posted, not another site. Especially one where I don't have to use Babelfish to browse. lol.
***/EDIT***
Again, I repeat : aHHH!!!!!!

[choimk30]

I knew it ~!u can make it~!sweet
I think It's time to get a job~!u r ready~!right?
I love ur models, animation,and style~!
good job~!
I'm wonder was it first time to learn 3d in VFS?
good luck to u~!:applause: :applause: :love:

[Lapsus]

Nice job!!!

But the whole looks reminds me a lot to Gary's (also VFS) work.

http://www.vfs.com/~whsu/


The grany is just the same look to another VFS student...Mike Fetterly

http://www.vfs.com/~mfetterly/

:hmm:

[zazaki]

I love this piece!!!,but kinna expect something more at the end!! ,and the little guy I 'd like him to have more character.
Great piece !!! really inspire!!!

[nomad_girl]

so much going on here! what a fun short, great overall look too--especially with the set.

i really like the girl on the bike scene--- cracked right up!

good luck!

[elevationson]

Thats some fun animation, I 'd like to see more sound FX but it was still good anyway. Next episode please:drool:

[poioz]

Hey Mike! this is oscar. I saw how you built everything from scratch and I was and I am still very inspired with your work and with the final result!
I reallly hope to see you on the road very soon!

I know I can say proudly that I was in your class!

Wish you the best!

[TrailerPark_Al]

oh man, that reel is amazing!!! i love the comic book style, and the way the monster moves. this is one of the best reels i've seen come out of vfs.

[cycom]

I like your animation style... yeah i think the ending is too simple.. i'm expecting something more also.

[John Warner]

wow, this piece is really nice!

i bet it's going to inspire many more animations.

[lala7086]

wonderful job

but i want to say something about the second one,the second picture.i think that the reflection of the joint of the leg are not perfect.i saw some grains on the metal surface.maybe you can rerender it.
i like your works.

[superlayer]

Very nice. I am sure it will lead to something good for you.

:thumbsup:

[scoogee]

really boss work. it's quite an inspiration. great choice of music too!!

[3DArtZ]

so whatever happend with the creator of this great animation? Did you land a job somewhere?

Mike Fitz
www.3dartz.com (http://www.3dartz.com)

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