Animation: Stand By Me

#1

Hiya

this is part of my final graduation project from college.
the entire project includes - besides these movies - the promotion-campagne for the movie as well as the corporate identity of the animation-company ‘Buddies Animation Studios’

cheers
CosmicBear

Teaser-Trailer ‘Fridge’ Small (160 x 120, 692 kbyte)
http://www.cosmicbear.de/img/TeaserSmall.mpg

Teaser-Trailer ‘Fridge’ Big (400 x 300, 1,6 MByte)
http://www.cosmicbear.de/img/TeaserHigh.mpg

Trailer ‘Night’ Small (160 x 120, 1,4 MByte)
http://www.cosmicbear.de/img/NightSmall.mpg

Trailer ‘Night’ Big (400 x 300, 3,3 MByte)
http://www.cosmicbear.de/img/NightHigh.mpg

Trailer ‘Love’ Small (160 x 120, 868 kbyte)
http://www.cosmicbear.de/img/LoveSmall.mpg

Trailer ‘Love’ Big (400 x 300, 1,9 MByte)
http://www.cosmicbear.de/img/LoveHigh.mpg

Stand By Me - The Movie Small (160 x 120, 19,9 MByte)
http://www.cosmicbear.de/img/SBMSmall.mpg

Stand By Me - The Movie Big (400 x 300, 38,6 MByte)
http://www.cosmicbear.de/img/SBMHigh.mpg

You’ll need Quicktime 6 to watch the movies and should rename them to .mov
Sorry for that! Still learning the internet-game :slight_smile:

#2

After I downloaded your 19 meg file, it seems to be corrupted???

If you can please check into it and please post links to the direct files and not webpages…most people use apps such as getright to download the movies while they browse… I’ll bet that if you did you would get more responses…

Just a suggestion…:rolleyes:

TENL

#3

thanks for letting me know!

the links are all changed now to the direct files.

the files seem to be fine on my comp here. they are all mpg-files, so you’ll need quicktime6 (sorry, divx is still something i don’t get…)

#4

I really like your lighting, colors, texturing & composition…

no doubt you will be looking for work based on the merit’s of your 3d & animation skills, so I will make a suggestion… redo the voice overs on the teasers with someone who has a more professional quality to their voice. (or just use text like you do in beginning of the main movie), the level of quality there is not up to level of everything else.

Also (very important!) – I know that’s the name of the song – but you might also consider coming up with a title/name for the movie that has not already used for a famous movie (Stand By Me)

john

#5

I loved it!!!

Thanks I redownloaded it and it played perfectly this time. It was well worth the download!

I only have one critique and it’s not about the animation which I thought was flawless…

The end credits were way to long. I know that you want to give props to whom ever helped you but you had almost 2 minutes of credits which you included in there and basically could have left out and made your high quality version as small as your low quality one. I would recommend a link to your site and have a page dedicated to the people that helped in the project so that people can view the high version one at the reduced size…but that’s your call…

Again, I loved the animation, the story lighting, everything was great…

TENL

#6

thanks alot tenl!
good idea with the credits. i just recompressed the dvd-version. i’ll put up new versions tomorrow.

@tinrocket:
you’re absolutely right about the voice-over. it took me a long time to find an american or british guy (accent-free english), who was willing to do this and i had to pitch him down to get the voice i wanted. i want to redo them anyway, but still haven’t found someone with a good voice.

about the title: i know that it’s already used, but as it is ‘only’ my graduation-project and will not be used in a commercial way, i probably won’t change it. the entire (fake) promotion-campagne is already printed… :slight_smile:

cheers
CosmicBear

#7

eehh… I downloaded “Stand By Me - The Movie Big (400 x 300, 38,6 MByte)” and its not working … :annoyed:

#8

Good work on this animated film. It reminds me of my childhood experience seeing “Kitchen Cabaret” at Epcot. I like the story too, how you slowly close in on the “actual” setting, inside the refrigerator.

My comments are about your animation, which I think you’re trying to emphasize as much as your modeling. I was trying to figure out what the guy tomato was feeling as he was singing, and to me it didn’t seem like the passion in the lyrics was coming through in the character’s performance.

Most importantly, this song is directed at the female tomato, but the male hardly ever looks at her. Most of the time he’s staring down at the floor, eyes darting around, which really contradicts the emotion in the lyrics. It almost looks like he doesn’t mean it. There’s also very little, if anything, going on with his eyebrows and the areas under his eyes, which could make him much more expressive. At the risk of resembling veggietales I would recommend adding some squash and stretch to the tomatoe as well, so he could change his posture when hitting certain points in the song.

I believe it would be more of a shock to see the female taken away if it didn’t look as if he were saying “goodbye” throughout the whole song. He didn’t even look happy back when he was still on the tomato vine. Make him more passionate. Good work so far, keep it up.

#9

tomato on a plate? reminds me of the pasta i had for dinner.

nice work (not the pasta).:beer:

#10

Man, I really liked it! There were a few things I would have liked in a better way, like the simple shading of the tomatoes for instance, but it doesn´t change my overall impression of the short. Very good, I liked the song and especially enjoyed the egg-background-singers. Very cool!

J-

#11

Hello.

non of your movies worked for me. I dunno what sort of codec you use but I have them all installed (xvid, divx5.05(or whatever the latest is). In fact non of them worked.

#12

@Ac0rN and TheGreenGiant
you’ll need quicktime 6 to view the movies. i used the mpg4-exporter from quicktime pro to compress the movies.
i checked them on several maschines (macintosh as well as windows and they always worked) i do apologize for the problems you’re having with the files!

@psyop63b
thanks for the critics! i will keep them in mind for my next project.

there were alot of disussion about the ‘saying goodbye part or not’ in the storyboard-process. i finally made it (tried to make it) like Spike [the male tomato] is actually afraid to lose Molly rather then letting him have a great time. after all, they are both food and do know that they are in a fridge and probably know where they will end up…

@ mental|disease
thanks alot!
the doo-wop countryeggs are a wordgame from a german insult for someone who is really boring :wink:

#13

That worked. You should update your first post informing people who download to renamed the extension from mpeg to .mov. That’s why they’re not working. You have the files called FILENAME.mpg instead of FILENAME.MOV

I’ll leave feedback when I have time to watch the vids. It looked quite nice from the quick peep I had.

#14

@ TheGreenGiant
sorry again for the inconvenience (correct word?) and thanks for letting me now. i’ve edited the first post

#15

I’ve just finished watching it and it has a nice feel to it. I thought the environments were a lot better than the characters though. I agree totally with what psyop63b said about the eyes needing more expression, and this character was crying out for some squash and stretch. As for the lip-sync, I thought it was okay, but not great. I think he really needed a tongue for the 'L’s and 'Th’s and he would have looked great opening his mouth right up on the louder notes with his eyes closed so we could see right to the back of his mouth, tonsils wobbling and all!
I did like it overall though, and I’m looking forward to seeing more work from you.
Cheers.
ps. whereabouts did you go to college?

#16

yeah, i know the tounge is the big missing thing… he actually has it… but when i started to do the lipsyncing i found it a little confusing and turned it invisible. and it stayed this way until i was half done with rendering the singing-scenes. and as it took about 2 month of rendering (dvd-pal-resolution; between 5 and 40 minutes each frame) i didn’t have the time to redo the shots. :blush:
but i’ll do a tounge next time. promised! :wink: this was my first lipsync-animation ever and i’ve learned alot from it.

@ m_greenwood:
University of applied sience and art, Hildesheim, Germany

it wasn’t an animation-program, but graphic-design

#17

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