Random character design + animation

[Spenner]

Re: Random character design + animation

What I meant was lengthier horizontal lines randomly sequenced instead of just that two frame animation.

Look at your signature (the Shayne Webb one) :P right before it gets bombarded, that kind of spatter of movement that quickly goes from lengthier distortion to shorter distortion.

And by going back and forth between seeing it non-distorted, I meant 1/8th of a second type of brief moment ;P just the give it a bit more of an authentic glitchy look. Maybe even one frame with the whole thing vertically stretched. Idk, but I'd play with it more than rely on that short loop of horizontal distortion. The progressing noise works pretty well, though.

I'd make an example in Flash if I had flash handy <__>

[darkshark]

Re: Random character design + animation

I could definitely do that, just not sure if I can do it JUST with scripting and no keyframes. I wanted to leave keyframes out of this so that I can reuse this footage and it will always be completely random (all of the movements going on).

Mythix I agree with the scanning lines, and I actually do want to have those scan actual areas of the robot, but I have no idea where the camera is going to end up in that shot, because I haven't made that portion of the fight scene yet...the image currently there is just a placeholder.

Spenner, I'll tweak with the distortion a bit more and see if I can get away with not having to use frames...while I was writing the previous paragraphs I had an epiphany for a possible fix to your liking xD

[revolutionomega]

Re: Random character design + animation

Yeah I figured the Entanglement video would be pretty relevant. Personally my favorite part is the sword fighting at the end xD

And definitely have to agree that Alice is godawful. I had to use it in this computing class last year it was pointless, awful, and made no sense to me.

[darkshark]

Re: Random character design + animation

I took the last couple of days to learn how to use a new plugin I got, called RayFire Tools.

This plugin is an effing beast of a simulator, and also takes its toll on every computer resource available, probably because it's not written very well...but it took me so long to learn how to use this tool because ANY complex simulation would just lock up the computer for more than an hour. So here's a few stills of what's going on.






Compiled video is uploading.

In the final version I'd like this destruction simulation to be much less pronounced, there's too much debris and large chunks, so I'd like to pretty much have one good "smashed" chunk out of that corner of the wall, with lots of little cracks and smaller chips that broke off, but that's going to take some more tweaking to get it to my liking.

[Spenner]

Re: Random character design + animation

Badass stills, cannot wait for it :3

[DotKritic]

Re: Random character design + animation

What software was used for the robot animation?

[darkshark]

Re: Random character design + animation

3ds Max. Pretty much all of my work I ever do is in that program. Do you do any 3d work?

[DotKritic]

Re: Random character design + animation

3ds Max. Pretty much all of my work I ever do is in that program. Do you do any 3d work?

Nope. I just seem really interested in it now.

edit: US$3,495 (MSRP)

[darkshark]

Re: Random character design + animation

ThePiratebay.org

[revolutionomega]

Re: Random character design + animation

ThePiratebay.org

lol thumbs up.

isohunt.com/lite is faster for most stuff though.

[darkshark]

Re: Random character design + animation

http://vimeo.com/19764773

Started blocking in some of the background and surroundings, refined the impact of the car smash (probably going to make this a futuristic setting, so the Honda will need to be swapped with something else, probably my nVidia contest car http://img824.imageshack.us/img824/6928/preview5g.jpg )

I've got about 30 full seconds of animation, but I want to fine tune it a bit before rendering it.

[MageMonkies]

Re: Random character design + animation

ThePiratebay.org

Demonoid.me is better imo, less idiots posting bad torrents, I can do a few invites on a first come first served basis for who's interested.

[darkshark]

Re: Random character design + animation

Also animated more of this thing

http://vimeo.com/19849118

I refined the first half with the comments you all had, and just blocked in the last half, so I haven't even run through the curves editor at all so it's clunky.

[darkshark]

Re: Random character design + animation

Made a ton of progress today. I built 8 full city blocks for the environment, added atmospheric fog, centered depth of field, traffic, sidewalks, re-rigged both robots with MUCH more in-depth rigging systems for an amazing amount of control for when I finally animate the fight sequences. Added in a few new scenes, got to implement the first iteration of a HUD POV scene...I need to add in a ton of details as I go as well, like stoplights, windows, storefronts, signs, maybe people, very open to suggestions.

http://vimeo.com/19956435

I'll try and get the scene where the black robot actually throws the car in place and fully rendered, along with the existing scenes updated with the new environment, I think that will begin to tie some things together and make it begin to make sense.


Here's the new animation rig, took 4 hours to get all of the controls working right. Everything that is green controls little nuances of the body in addition to major joint linkage.

[darkshark]

Re: Random character design + animation

Starting to tie together, the next scene will commence the epic battle.

http://vimeo.com/20006538

I'm just going to add detail to the environment as I go, since it all needs to be re-rendered at the end anyway. Easier workflow.