Point Me At The Sky - Final Project 2 Animation

This is my B.F.A. Final Project. Subscribe to my YouTube so you see the completely finished version (3+ minutes) if and when it's released, and any other animations I come out with!

Stage part 2

Another part of my Final Project Stage.

The Stage

These are videos of my stage for my Final Project.

Final Project

final project image movie

A Day at the Farm

I hijacked 8 of the computers in the lab. This animation is going to be finished tonight!

Statue in Progress

Here is the "making of" video of my Statue character for my ARIL421 final. It's basically a render from each of my "increment and saves".

Batch Render Video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2bouhYHDa4

Great Video on how to batch render and export your movies

My Knight in progress

This is the Knight for my final project in Aril421. I'm also doing one for my Statue character and the stage, which I'll post as soon as I'm done.

Vicky's Final Animation Fall 2012

Final Animation from Fall 2012 by Vicky Leta

BYOA

This Monday our local ACM SIGGRAPH chapter will be holding another Bring Your Own Animation event:

"This Monday, November 11, from 7:00PM to 10:00PM, we'll be hosting our November BYOA event at Smithfield on W. 28th Street between 7th and 8th Aves. If you have any completed or in progress work, or you'd like to see what others are up to, please join us on the 3rd Floor (The Wallace Room) of Smithfield. More details can be found on our web site at nyc.siggraph.org."

I will not be able to make it, but it is a great opportunity to get feedback on your work!

SIGGRAPH ASIA CAF trailer

 

 

...and where are your great projects? No progress?

Hey!

Its been awfully quiet out here...

Or should I say: Hay!

Here's a student animation, for inspiration

 

The Final Straw - Ricky Renna from Ricky Renna on Vimeo.

More Skeletons

Dan Pirarro Posted this today in his blog

This Friday: MetroCAF 2013!

ARIL 321- Texture Turntable

by Vicky Leta

Michael Finazzo ARIL 321

Bill Yates ARIL 321

Animation from ARIL-321

Here is my final animation from ARIL-321

Animation from Aril 321

Bird animation from final project aril 321

Animation from Aril-321

This is my final project from Intro to 3D Animation.

A couple of my final projects from previous 3D animation classes:

From ARIL 321:

Flying Pig Animation from Dmitriy Guzner on Vimeo.

From ARIL 319:

...and We're Back

Fall semester has arrived, so it is time for a new class to take over this blog.

Here is some inspiration, from a Gobelins:

Myosis from GOBELINS pro on Vimeo.

Lovecraft Student Competition

Through the ASIFA Hollywood Educators list, I was alerted to this:

Get student work on the screen before it is completed
Call For Student Animations in Progress
Just 90 seconds of animation and a title card!

The Los Angeles H. P. Lovecraft Film Festival (Sep 27-29, 2013 - Warner Grand Theatre, San Pedro, CA) is looking for festival bumper films.

No entrance fee. Bumpers are guaranteed to screen at the festival and each Student Filmmaker gets one free festival pass and a discount on other festival passes. Student retains copyright. All bumpers will then "live forever" on the HPLFF's YouTube channel.

APPLICATION AT: http://www.hplfilmfestival.com/webform/application-student-bumper-competition

Final Projects

A reel with final projects from last semester is up on youtube. Next to a short version, I also uploaded this extended version:

 

Rendering Animators Obsolete

Now that the semester is over I can safely tell you that in Maya you can actually have the computer do everything for you. Just watch this tutorial (via the Hollywood ASIFA Educators Mailing List)

Power to the Cores!

If you think the machines in the lab are rendering slowly, look at the task manager. You will see that Metal Ray is only using about a maximum of 25&perc; of the power: two out of four CPU cores

Googled for a solution, found one on Creative Cow: Go to the Batch Render Options (hit the box) and under Parallellism, turn off Auto Render Threads and set Render Threads to 8. Turning off Render on network machines may also be needed.

Happy Rendering

Atomic Movements

If you think animating in Maya is tedious, consider this:
 

A Boy And His Atom - The World's Smallest Movie from Nico Casavecchia on Vimeo.

This movie was actually made by moving individual atoms. Here is a "Making Of"
 

Blinky! Louis taking over Jimmy's account!

Blinky™ from Ruairi Robinson on Vimeo.

Look what I found!

Rotoscopes from Disney animated films superimposed with their real-life models  <-- Click here for website

Free Sound

You can find CC Licensed audio files one freesound.org

So far...

...

Further Progress

Finally have a model textured and also actual scenery and background to place said model in. 

The sad thing about all this is that 90% of what I built for the background won't even be used or seen....It's just been added in for when I add lighting...

After Effects FOG

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yc2AGBoJoNk

Maya Fluid Container to make Fog

http://www.3dworldmag.com/2011/06/24/create-a-ground-fog-effect-in-maya/

Prix Arts 2013 Auszeichnung

Caldera (2012) from Evan Viera on Vimeo.

More in-progress Final Project work

Added a Neck and now working on the hand.

Both being obnoxious to model but hopefully it'll turn out better eventually...

Still a lot more to do...urg..

3D Advance animation final still modeling

Evening guys, 

So, after finally getting somewhat better from a nasty cold, here's the screenshots I have for the body in progress. 

Next week the animation tests are due so this really should be fun to get all of this done and rigged..

But progress is still happening and at least the head is mostly done. 

Have a good Easter everyone!

--Julie

Industry Spotlight XI

To see some of the big NYC studios present their work, come to FIT next Wednesday evening. More info on the NYC ACM SIGGRAPH site

Speaking of Dynamics...

Here is some real time rendered dynamic destruction:

 

Hairy Presentation

Dynamic Pins & Ball

A little polished...

Dynamic Pins & Ball

Dynamic Pins & Ball....

So Oreo has a new viral ad campaign

This is what I hope we can all aspire to make one day.

http://www.superimportanttest.com/index.html?shareVideo=creme9

SHE'S NOT EVEN REAL

Professor!!!!
I decided I'm going to change my final project and make Audrey Hepburn set things on fire.
But seriously.... she's not real guys... She's a digital model...

WHAT!

Stove for my scene

My Rendered Character well, one of them...

Tea Anyone?

He needed to blow of some steam!

My Storyboard 'Fog'

First scene...Intro of forest
2nd, enter deep into the foggy forest
3rd, from the fog two characters appear
4th, close up, lit
5th, they see something glowing far in the tree
6th, close up of tree
7th, they wisp around the trees to reach the tree
8,,,,,,,,
9th, ,,,,,,
10th, They become one (Fog Sex)
11, merge back into fog
THE END!

Happy Connellys?

Super Bun Bun Test Render

Super Bun Bun with a glowing mask. when he flies into space to the moon, his mask glows.

Face Layout

As Blogger does not allow images in comment, this is a comment-as-post. The head for Julies animation is taking shape nicely. The topography (the way the polygons are laid out) need some work. Always keep the edgeloops in mind: they should go around the eyes and mouth (the blue lines in the image on the right). On the left side of the face (the right side for the viewer) I indicated which new edges can be created (green) and which deleted (red) working towards a better layout around the eye.

Screenshots of Head Model

Evening everyone! 

Not much to post this week but here's some screenshots of the head model I'm working on so far for our final animation. 

Enjoy and see you Monday!

Een Hond uit Andalusie

This short came up in class. I consider it a must see for anyone in film and therefor also for you guys! "Un Chien Andalou" was created by Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dali in 1929

 

Where is Mental Ray?

Some of you have complained about Mental Ray not being available as rederer. If you cannot select Mental Ray, the plugin is not loaded.

To load Mental Ray: go to Window → Settings/Preferences → Plug-in Manager. In the window that opens, find Mayatomr.mll (may be at the bottom under C:/Program Files/Autodesk/Maya2013/mentalray/plug-ins) and check loaded and Auto load

Happy rendering!

Strip The City

I was watching a show on the Discovery channel last Tuesday that created a nice link between the only two classes I'm taking this semester: animation and architecture. The show is called Strip The City and it uses cgi to display what it takes to make a city function properly. Last weeks episode was about San Francisco and the computer graphics literally "stripped" the city down to it's skeleton to show things like plumbing, subway systems, steel pilings, and supports in a very elegant and interesting way.

A company in Canada called Modus FX does the animations for the show.
Here's the Modus site

And here are some screen shots from the show:

It's on again tomorrow night (Tuesday) at 9:00pm and I would definitely suggest giving it a look.

concept art and inspiration

Hi! Here's my inspiration for textures and looks for my final animation.

Also here are some sketches in preparation for modeling. 

Enjoy and have a good weekend everyone!

--Julie

Hannah's Inspiration

Hello All. The following video is the inspiration for my final animation. It's a classic Chuck Jones annimation from 1966. Enjoy.

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmSbdvzbOzY

Hotel Transylvania Look Dev

To help you prepare for you project presentations, here is an interesting clip on the look development for the Sony Pictures Imageworks feature "Hotel Transylvania". Next class I will refer to a different aspect of the animation for this movie.

 

Sketches for Animation Idea

Hi! So since I'm not sure if we were suppose to post images or not here are my sketches for my animation idea. I'm also working on this for my final project which is why they're detailed in both drawings and plot but the basic premise is about these two girls with a close friendship that become involved in cliques, popularity, and bullying when one of them wants to become friends with the popular girl Emily and gets the opportunity to do so. 

I also have the animatic I did in 2d principles but I wasn't sure whether or not to post that and these are just some of many images I thought communicated best what happens in the story without giving away the little ''surprise'' at the end. 

So I hope this helps. See you guys tomorrow! 

--Julie

How to make an animated movie

To start of the posts for this semester, in which we have two sections of ARIL 421 (Advanced Animation) competing to create the best and most mind boggling animation, here is a little graph on how it is done (from this blog in German but actually from a French cable Art channel):

And to actually get something produced, you have to pitch your idea first (as the first group will next Wednesday. Here is a video from the LA times of "the big guys" talking about pitching their ideas.