Gonna be hard to get that cube to life without deformers though! …hehe
Joke by the way :)… I’m all for this challenge…
I’m a hopeless animater, but one doesnt get any better by NOT animating!..
I have a Character and Small story in mind, and will story board it tonight, and post…
It wont be anywhere near as good as you pro guys, but what the heck…at least without fancy setups and deformers i have a “chance” 
puppetmaster! 
But who says the opposite?
Nobody here says a cube can’t have life! Pfouuuu! :surprised
Why trying to snub us? Every body looked at “The Dot and the Line”(chuck jones) and knows everything can be alive! Ok!
We just say that too much rules and contrainte are not approprietness with an artistic work, and pleasure (We are here for that no?)… Some rules are great and essential! other less!
Nothing more! It was not an attaque again Mod rules, no! Just a point of view and a critic to do the challenge better! nothing more… can we critic something without be considered as a killjoy!
Let the challenge began! Enjoy all together!!! :bounce:
Nobody here says a cube can’t have life! Pfouuuu!
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I have only substitute Nahaz post nothing more…
I didn’t say anybody says that…joke…
Originally posted by Totitch
We just say that too much rules and contrainte are not approprietness with an artistic work, and pleasure (We are here for that no?)…
I respect what you’re trying to say, but I don’t agree. The art will come when you make a stick figure with no face come to life. A facial deformation (eyes, brows, mouth, etc) will make the animation read easier. Making it read without these features will be more challenging and vastly improve you skills and understanding of character animation.
Don’t make me quote the guy from Pixar again.
I totally disagree with you X xtreme3DKillerInstinctMoonLight ShadownShaolinShaquill !!!
how can you say such a ridiculous thing! animation is not…euh…yes…but…not the skateboa…
I’m a little confused … do we post on cgchallenge after we are completely done with the challenge? and we post are wip here?
Does that go for all the challenges?
I don’t mind most of the rules. The only rule that I don’t like is the rule requiring you to build your own rig. I’m not looking forward to building a rig from scratch. I have a 3rd party rig I almost always use.
As for Character Studio, I believe the rules, as stated, mean you CANNOT use Character Studio. If I remember 3D Studio Max, Character Studio creates the biped skeleton for you. The rules state you have to create your own rig, so that would be against the rules.
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To all of you doing restroom animations. I would just like to point you to some great inspiration. Animations created by Daniel Martinez Lara:
only one light (1.44 Mb cinepak)
and the long version:
WC preview (4.9 Mb mpeg4)
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Ok I did a little testing and OpenDivX encoded Quicktime works well for Linux Users… (at least those using Intel32 architecture) – should be available for Windows and Mac users, gives good compression and gives output quality.
Please consider it in place of Soronson for future challenges.
Originally posted by stzaske
[B]Hmmm…is it just me, or do the two avatars above mine look alarmingly similar?-=STZ=- [/B]
I saw your avatar just the other night. I friend showed me this animation that was bizarre to say the least, but strangely funny.
OK body animation is what comes first…and it’s really important…
Body animation doesnt always come first. Firstly if the characters got a head then you lead with that, then the body say 2-4 frames later.If the characters got eyes then you lead with them then the head, then the body. All down to anticipation - action - reaction,
Everything you do is a thought process. Unless its a reaction to something. Which will in effect cause a thought process leading to action, and in turn a reaction.
MAN, this is complicated!
Eek ( been away for a while, just poping in!)
well usually you don’t start animating the facials until you don’t have the correct body animation/motion…
I didn’t invent this, it’s in the preston blair courses, the illusion of life ect ect…one of the first thing U learn in an animation class…
that’s the purpose of the “bag” or the “ball” exercice…
if the global movement succeed in showing what U want, you succeed in your animation then U can go for the facial exp…
then what U want to say in your animation is a different matter…
I’m talking about the technical process…not the meaning of an animation…
Im not talking about facial stuff i.e lip synch - eyeborows etc. Im talking about moving/rotating the head leading the action. And im not saying the head always leads, but generally theres a thought process going on… also the overlap maybe just 1 or 2 frames onto the body. Also the head and body may both lead before overlap happens in either. Where’s the action coming from? is the key. If you suddenly hear something, your eyes flick round, head 1-2 frames later. Body and chest next,maybe slight followthrough in chest ,body.
Eek
toook me a real loooooooong time to read tru all the 7 pages of posted threads.how come some people just keep complaining?if it doesn’t suit what u want, just don’t enter!!!. :airguitar
if u’ve chosen to enter, then don’t complain! let’s start animating!
hi,newbie here.
can’t really understand what’s the 3rd topic, the mover, means the character’s job is a mover?what’s a mover? a tracktor/crane driver?can someone please gimme some examples
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The way I understand it, it is an animation of a character moving something…anything…and in some way it is awkward to do so. You could choose to have a character moving something like a swingset. That would be an awkward object for most entities to move. Or, I suppose, it could be a simple object to move but for some circumstance, it becomes difficult. For instance, you could have a guy trying to pick up a book and all the pages fall out and try to gather them all before they hit the ground…or a boulder fall from nowhere on the book. The sky is the limits.
Hope this helps out.
thanks for the example.
got an image of what that MOVEr means
was planning to participate in the competiton, this morning, but unfortunately i’ve just been briefed an assignment, to animate a toilet bowl,being kicked out BY an outhouse(“character with no limbs” project)…
too bad. will try to enter the next competition!!
MUAHAHAHAHAHAHA:bounce: