FXWARS THE RACE: Russell Etheridge

#1

Hi guys, i know i’m starting my thread a bit late but i have almost finished my animation. I have done this piece completely on my own, it’s mainly for a university assignment but it fits with the criteria here too. The only thing im a bit worried about is that there is a crash but its not very realistic, and you dont really see much of it. But would like you guys to see it anyway. Here are a couple of shots from what i have done so far:

I’d like to enter this into the fantasy category. I’ll try and upload a video clip soon.

Cheers
Russ

#2

This one looks like it could be very nice.

Can’t wait to see more!

#3

thanks mustan9, heres a couple more shots, this is one of both cars involved. I used free models for both, all the materials are mine. For the red car i lowered the suspension and made new cooler wheels for it.

Heres a shot of the red car catching a flat. In the distance you can see the cliff to which the red car has its imminent impact!

#4

Lookin nice!

#5

lookin’ good. I look forward to the explosion! how about a playblast of the anim?

#6

thanks guys.

sorry destruct, no explosion this time. I spent today finishing it off, maybe if i had my time again i would have done it differently but for now i’m going to leave it how it is, got too much other work to do.

#7

well looks like im not gonna make it, the sound hasnt even been started on yet. never mind, i’ll post it in the animation section when its done anyway. Good luck everyone :thumbsup:

#8

ah. That’s to bad. I thought very much this entry was a sleeper. :smiley:

Another one drops out :sad:

#9

[b]FXWARS: OK people talk to me, One more week?

-R
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#10

thats good news, an extra week should be fine, good luck everyone :thumbsup:

#11

ok i’m gonna upload it today is it too late? the sound guy should be sending me the track very soon

#12

No Problem.
You have until Monday may 29th is gone from planet earth…

later,

-R

#13

alrighty, heres the link, i used megaupload so there is a bit of a wait before you can download, sorry about that. Hope you guys enjoy it!
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=25HCHPLV

its about 100mb, sorry to those of you with low speeds but i didnt have time to make a more compressed version

#14

I thought your models, textures and animations were great. I got confused however by your storeyline. Given that this was an assignment for one of your classes though i can understand as you explained before that not much is shown of the crash. I’m curious about the song you chose…culd you provide more info on it…I really liked it.

#15

ok ok ok, i know the story doesnt make sense when you watch it. I thought it would be a cool twist if you thought the racers were on earth to begin with, then you find out they were on the surface of an orbiting space station. One of the racers (baldy) crashes through the wall of the space station and his only chance of survival is the hatch, which is shown at the end. “The Hatch” is the title for my university project, i didnt have time to edit that out, or to make a more compressed version for web, for which i apologise, a new version is coming soon, for now the new version can be recieved from rapid share:
http://rapidshare.de/files/21919746/TheRaceFXWARS.mov.html

I really want to re-do this animation at some point, i know the first bit is really promising and it all falls apart after the cliff crash. I annoys me to think that it would be a lot better if i just had a cool explosion and be done with it, i just wanted to do something different! i guess the safety of things that are familiar is usually the best way to go. Oh well live and learn. I’m glad i did it like this, next time i’ll make sure the concpet is spot on before i spend months animating!

The music is written by a UK group called Siksense, and the track is called “Unawake” i got it from a promo of their forthcoming album! AMAZING btw!

p.s. some people did get what happened to baldy, so it makes me feel a little better!

#16

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