Fetch | Cg Short.

#281

How cute! I really like the styleo the dog and ball throwing device. I’m glad you changed the style of the dog food…it looked like he stooled in his own dog bowl.

#282

Great work guys! I guess we’re all very proud at eachother. And especially Boy1da, for this amazing project and setup.
Thanks for all the compliments I’m reading, the mowerbeast isn’t complete, but it’s mostly texturing. I guess I’m around 85 to 90% complete.

#283

[left]Hey everyone. Seriously awsome work and team contributions here. Well done. I hope you guys manage to pull through with the same amount of enthusiasm as you’ve still got. This project looks great.

Best of luck everyone
-Iest
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#284

You guys are off to a good start. Thought you might be interested in seeing something I did, that is remarkably similar to your short…although the narrative is different. I am more interested in showing a role reversal, where the dog is not interested in playing with the child.

You can see the final version at http://www.animike.com/fetch.

Also, I documented my progress as you are doing. You can read the whole production journal http://www.animike.com/nyu/.

Good luck. I’d to receive some feedback from you guys.

#285

Hey gatari that is some pretty fine work you have there, nice little story too and great acting. Great stuff!

Thanks for the feedback on the project so far. Things have been going great thanks to the persistance of all the folks involved and of course BOY1DA :slight_smile:

Oh, I really liked the music you had on your toon as well. Had a very Pixarish feel to it in their shorts. Great work indeed.

#286

Hey gatari, i enjoyed the short very much!, the dog’s performance was great, he really looked fed up :D. Agree with TheFreak, great score too.

#287

Been working on cleaning up the skinning and deformations of the boy.
Preparing him for animation. I had to re-work some of the polygons
of the mouth so it can deform better and made some new morph targets.

The face has to be rewired, so I may need Jon’s help for that.
The face is set up with the same technique that Jon
used a jaw bone with morphs working together.

I’ve been inspired by Jon’s work , so I started to lean some max scripting.
I did my first custom attribute script for a hand rig this weekend.

There is still a bit of work to do on the skin of the hands and the sleeves
of the shirt, but not much. Should be done in a day or 2.

Some images of my progress below.


#288

Looks good! Glad you are learning the scripting. lol.

Did you notice the morph targets that I had on the seperate layer? Those are all editable. I have a live update on the targets so you can update the face on the rig. Sorry I have not had any time to do any updates on the rigs… I will do a quick fk on the dog and send it out. School. Its coming :open_mouth: lol. I may slow down for a little bit while I start up school, then get right back into this.

Peace!

#289

Looking excellent. Too bad I don’t know anything about rigging and skinning :smiley:
Anyway, I’ve uploaded the beast with all the textures. The materials are all a bit WIP, but I don’t know how much time I have to work on it, I’m pretty busy.
So, if anyone wants to continue it, no problem. :slight_smile:

#290

I posted an update on the monster mower rig on my blog. http://blog.pinnacle3d.com/ check it out.

I hope it was okay, i decided to just take the model and rip it up. lol. So now we have a rig.

Here is a fancy thing… lol.

#291

Looking really good, dude. I left you both messages about maybe helping with some animation when the time comes. Just dropping a note on here to let you know I’m in if you need me.

#292

All the face adjustments have been done .
The image of the controls you see here is not the latest version.
I’ve added some more controls since that render was made.
The added controls are for the tongue, the tongue works by animating a spline
or if the animator chooses , can use morph targets in combination with
the spline animation or just morphs alone.

Now to work on the finalizing of the body.
As soon as the character is done we can pick up the pace again.

Here is a link to a video of the latest face test.

Or just click the image.

#293

Very cool… You pick up fast… Let me know if you want me to setup the pen attribs

#294

Just want to make a quick comment. This project is going at light speed and making quality stuff.

What a team! :thumbsup:

#295

awsome work guys can`t wait to see this come to live :twisted: and actually see the animation

#296

Here are the particles I’ve done for the opening title sequence.

Both the dust and small rocks are simple max particles. You guys are welcome to add/remove rocks around on the ground in the scene or do what you wish. I haven’t been able to test out how it looks with vray but the materials can be easily adjusted.

#297

Smoking baby Smoking…keep it going! :thumbsup:

#298

The boy rig is ready for action !
Time to put him in the battle field to see if he will survive.

It was a great deal of work to solve some of the skinning problems.

Not to take anything away from Jon’s rig, he did a great job.
His rig helped us to see what areas really needed to be worked on.
It also helped to develop and test the techniques for the new rig.
If Jon wants to continue to refine his skinning and rig
he is free to do so but I’m sure he is sick of that rig.
By the way I have a few ideas for the mower rig
but I’ll get into that later.

Seeing how we only have one shot to work on at the moment.
We may have to have a friendly competition to see who will animate the first shot.
Maybe you can each try it and we can pick one, or maybe the animators can do
a test animation first and we can decide …:shrug:

The first shot is just the boy playing the game, mostly facial animation.

All the max animators let me know who wants to have a go at it.
If you already know the server info , you can find the max 8 file in my folder
called “Shot_1_01.zip” I only included the boys face map because you may need
that to help see the eye brows. If you don’t have the FTP info
feel free to contact me .

Below are some videos and images of the rig test.

HERE IS A LINK TO A SCREEN CAPTURE OF ME TALKING ABOUT HOW THE RIG WORKS.

team members can also find the video on the server in the video tutorial folder.
called “BOY_RIG_VIDEO.zip” 66 megs.

Some images of body poses.

I was also trying out some new shoes.


This image was just to see his scale to the house.

This image is of the shot from the view of the cam.
I did a quick texture map on the game but not done with the front.

#299

nice work…and the stones look perfect now, whatever you did. :thumbsup:

#300

doing great job Omar keep going :thumbsup: