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archiea
10-08-2003, 09:30 PM
Voices of a distant star anime...

I thougt at the least this would be inspiring to Mac and LW folks in general...

http://digitallyobsessed.com/showreview.php3?ID=4782

http://homepage.mac.com/edahand/ibl...15/E1489850237/

http://www.advfilms.com/favorites/v...nterviews.shtml


I don't know if he used LW, but its almost irrelevant when you consider that he created and published a 25 min animated story and much of the work was done on a single PC, in this case a G4
anieves
10-08-2003, 10:20 PM
the last two links don't work. I'm curious about this flick.
takkun
10-08-2003, 10:26 PM
He did use Lightwave for all the 3d elements of his animation. There's an old thread about it around here.
JohnD
10-08-2003, 10:36 PM
I was able to watch the first episode on a demo dvd. Was pretty good.
JVitale
10-08-2003, 10:59 PM
I saw the whole thing at Comic Con a year ago. Makoto Shinkai was also there. He said he used LightWave for all the Mecha animation and used gradients as opposed to cel-shading. Backgrounds were created in Photoshop. He spent two years working on this by himself. The only thing he wasn't responsible for was music and voice acting
Jimstein
10-10-2003, 07:08 PM
It has a very short credit list in that case? =)

This links can be of interest:



voices of a... (http://www.advfilms.com/favorites/voices/interviews/shinkai.html)

fan web (http://daike.hp.infoseek.co.jp/)
Jimstein
10-10-2003, 07:23 PM
A yes...

And here's a list of the equipment he used. Yes, I am a nerd.

Hardware
Apple® Power Macintosh® G4
--400MHz, 1 GB RAM, 300GB Hard Drive
WACOM® pen tablet
Olympus® digital camera
Trace stand and paper

Softwares:
Adobe® Photoshop® 5.0
Adobe® AfterEffects® 4.1
Newtek LightWave 3D® 6.5
Pinnacle® Commotion™ 3.1

+ some gode acting voice. wich Makoto himself dont have =)
grafikdon
10-11-2003, 02:27 PM
The short was awesome. Gives me more inspiration I'd say.
5TEF
10-11-2003, 06:28 PM
voice of the girl made by his girlfriend :)

i saw the movie too : great great design and mecha animation...
Jimstein
10-14-2003, 02:59 PM
yep, and some voice acting was made by his cat. :applause:

A one mans peformance that is REALY god.
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