Sure! That’ll work. Maybe to push the emotional, maybe that car belongs to their best friend… or I think that’s even better is that he’s an lowly employee given the responsibility to park the company president’s car and wrecks it. Well these aren’t things to show specifically in the animation, more on things to keep in mind on what the character is feeling.
“What is the character thinking and why does he feel that way?”
Hi everybody! I Like Adams family.
Nice storyboard SirRon!
This is my first pass:
http://www.4shared.com/file/11746141/e460df5e/blast11.html
Like the feedback!
Thanks CuneytGuclu.
That’s almost a good pose for the “what’ll I do”. But the left hand is too close to the body to be a good silhouette.
The green is the one I recommend or a similar pose.
Also in the beginning when he’s looking around, I think the head is going to move too fast when you switch to linear or spline. And with the head moving like that I think the body would have some more motion too, at least in the shoulders.
Keep going at it, hope to see you finish at the end.
As for my own update I spent some time doing thumbnails of poses.
(click to enlarge picture)
I’m still setting up the scene and I’m going to use a different rig this time.
I don’t have a scanner, but I think there is one at work. So no storyboard right now. I will see if I can scan it at work. But anyways, here is the basic story.
Bear is up late at nite surfing the web. Very tired and bored, browsing for something entertaining to do. (Been there plenty of times,when I should be animating) Bear perks up because he thinks he has found something interesting. He then gets close to the screen while squinting and clicks. Bear is concentrated hard on screen. Still concentrated. Bear’s expression begins to turn to shock as he slowly leans back into his chair. He keeps leaning back untill he is about to fall out of chair. Bear is perfectly balanced and looks over at camera with his mouth open in amazement. Bear then falls backwards. 'fin
So I am going with ‘awkward stillness’ because of the balance of his chair. What do you think?
Hello all,
I’m having a bit of trouble and I hope somebody out there can help me out. I’m trying to build a website in flash (its all I have and know how to use), I launched the site (http://www.joncoppock.com ), but I want to be able to use quicktime movies like I see some of you doing. Much like Mr. Tim Sormin did here on this link: http://www.timsormin.com/
Does anybody have any advise on how to stream or link quicktime movies to my site so that they can be downloaded?
By the way, count me in for the next contest, just a little busy with this website thing right now.
Thanks,
Jon
Yo yo yo,
I figured it out, you would’nt believe how long I have been puzzleing over how to get this done. No one could help me, and in the end, I figured it out by reading a bunch of different forums, watching some of Justin Dike’s tutorials from www.cartoonsmart.com and reading the help on actionscripting inside of Flash.
I swear, I’m going to build a tutorial of this stuff, and put it on my website to save some people a lot of hassle.
Have as they say, “The Good One”
Jon Coppock
Sorry I couldn’t help out jpencilworks, website construction is not my thing :sad:
Speaking of saving people hassle from doing something, I just spent a couple of hours rigging this piece of paper LOL. I’m just an amateur rigger so there’s lots of mistakes on this one (center pivots, not freezing transformations before connecting them, scaling is not very clean, etc.) Took me heck of a time to make the controls. I think I tried making the controls pretty more than a clean rig :shrug:
I scaled it to be a 8.5x11 paper. This is a Maya 7.0 rig btw.
edit: added control visibility and renamed material.
SirRon,
Yo doggie, I can really relate to rigging hassles, I’ve been trying to rig l a low ninja character to carry a sword for about a month,m (working on iff and on) I probably have 50 hours in it now, and it still doesn’t work, I’ll get around to zipping it and get a copy of it off to you. Maybe you or someone you know can make it work.
Thanks for the paper rig, I’ll check it out later, I’m building another gallery for my site right now. I’m trying to get around to this months contest, I thumbnailed it and shot some footage. I laid it out, I’m using Ollie and Hogan on this one. Concentrating on the facial performance and both of these rigs have great mouth and facial control.
Enjoy the day my friend,
Cheers.
jpencilworks
Hey guys, I thought I’d join in on this session. 
Here’s what I’ve got so far. Not a whole lot of planning involved in this one. Just acting and improvising as I went along. It still needs tweaking, but your feedback is appreciated!
Here’s the link! (4.5mb mov)
sphere: lol, nice use of the teapots Everything looked great except that last giving up pose, it looked more like he turned a zombie. I think it could use an anticipation like an inhale then exhale ‘run? ok I’m giving up’ pose’
Ok, I don’t know why but I like doing a nice single frame shot before I start animating. :shrug:
Just got back from vacation…
[left]SirRon: Adding music is up to the animator. If you want to add music then go right ahead.[/left]
[left]The screen shot looks great! Simple with demo reel quality. I think it will be difficult to add body expression to your character because he is sitting face front to the camera. I would add torso twist and quite a bit of leaning when he puts the phone down. This will add unrest to the character after the awkward stillness. It looks like you have that in your boards (just wanted to clarify)[/left]
[left]Mandeep: Good stuff, i like it. Cant wait to see an animatic. [/left]
[left]CuneytGuclu: I will have to see an animatic to see how the timing will work. Like Sirron said about the movement may be to quick.[/left]
[left]Sphere: I like the teapots, funny stuff. Good movement on the teapots as well. The guy is animated good except for the last key. It looks like he was hung. His body and arms go stiff, and his body looks off balanced. Other than that it will be a good animation.[/left]
[left]jpencilworks: I would like to know how you did the quicktime movies, a tutorial would be great. I am starting work on my website and im going to use flash as well. I hadnt figured out how to use quicktime and your knowledge would help [/left]
[left]As for me i am still working on last months animation :). I am working on my putting my demo reel together so i have a lot of stuff going on at once. I thought last months audio clip would be good to put on my demo reel so i am focusing on that along with a character i am modeling. I will post my progress in another forum and post the link here when im ready. I am planning on going to the UK to try and find a animation job in August. My girlfriend is going there for school and i thought it would be a good idea to try and get a temporary work permit for a year or so. I am either going to Edinburgh Scottland or Sheffield England. If anyone has tips for me than i would like to know.[/left]
[left]Matt[/left]
Too show my progress. Here is an avi file. Just blocking it out mainly . Doing a few things at the beginning of the animation. towards the end just has basic poses. But it’s progress. I scrapped creating my own rig and decided to use one by Clean3d over at blenderartists.org.
Hi,
http://www.4shared.com/file/11936904/765f020d/blast6.html
ı am updating my animation, I was add some time animation beginnig and add run for finish time!
(Sorry my english)
hi guys
i jus joined the challenge… friends im planning to do the dialogue (addamsfamily)… hi mandeep nice to c a guy from chandigarh… i was born n bought up there… nice to c ur work… gud keep it up… all the best to all the participants… God bless!
Hi guys! I think I’m going to try and join this month. I’m probably going to do the awkward silence one since I have enough lip sync on my reel already. I’m looking forward to this, and hopefully after a bit of pre-production I’ll have something to show this weekend!
Ok guys here is an update. Fixed lots of things, the timing is much better, although still not where I want it. Still fleshing everything out. I am still new to animating.
Yo Dudeacle,
I posted that tutorial, it's on the home page of my site. Let me know if it helps, or if it needs more tweeking.
All,
My hope is that this helps you people so you don't have to go through the same run around I went through for this information.
I'll be posting my contest update soon.
You all take it easy now,
Cheers.
jpencilworksCuneytGuclu I just love when the character go out of the scene. It is very funny.
Now my blocking.
WIP - Key Poses
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=RYX8ZV2D
Please guys, feedbacks!
Cheers,
Diego
Diego -
good start! I really like the eye movements and thought process. The key poses really sell his actions, just dont let it die in the breakdowns.
2 small thoughts -
first - use youtube or google videos for this - too much to try and view a 5 sec clip.
second - the last two steps for the exit. I might suggest on really big one for the effect. Take a big step and really pull him over - either way I think he needs to go completely out of screen.
gonna watch this one!
Matt -