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[headwax]

http://www.vimeo.com/2212897

Something for the self portrait comp at animanon. Some pre-existing meshes to be removed.

All modelling with anim8or. Rendered in carrara. .

There is no narrative as such. Think of it as thinking aloud

[kreator]

You getting the hang of these BVH`s !! arn`t you andrew !! I do like the Gnome?santa  bit is he building something? perhaps a loco...?

if Steve`s watching.... or reading, BVH imports to Anim8or bones would be nice....or should that be in another wishlist???

[headwax]

Thanks K for taking the trouble to respond.

Sant Gnome is holding place for the businessman sculpting himself.

I rendered the businessman as a pole dancer last night. I thought it would be very funny, but in the end he looks like he is you know whatting the pole - so I will not post it here in this family friendly environs...

[VBSmiles]

Well, don't know what BVH is. but wow that dancing model!

[headwax]

Thanks VBSmiles,

BVH is http://www.cs.wisc.edu/graphics/Courses/cs-838-1999/Jeff/BVH.html

There  must be a multitude of files out there which mimick human and animal movement. Something which might take an anim8or several weeks to not get right can be done "perfectly" after a little work with these files.

You import a BVh file, it comes with a skeleton, which you must fit to your mesh and paint the weights etc. The file will take your mesh through the motions. The downside is the high rate of sampling. Every joint is sampled at small temporal intervals, so you have a lot of data that is hard to customize..... The trick is to 0veride the data to get the result you want.

Thanks for taking the time to comment.

[Indian8or]

Wow!!  Having avid anim8ors like you really helps.  Thank you headwax for sharing this valuable piece of information.

With creativity, sky is the only limit (or not I guess).

[headwax]

Thanks Indian8or,

Sky is interesting thing. I keep fidning my characeters go through it and get sore heads in the process. Small updat tonight of the businessman as an angel and pole dancer

[headwax]

Small update.


Mature audiences only please.

vimeo in high definition

http://vimeo.com/2240400

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check high quaity  if you like

[hihosilver]

Haha I did enjoy the pole dancing :p  hilarious.

The fallen angel was also very nice, I liked the use of volume shadows there.
The animations of course are still very 'sketchy' and as you probably know by now I'm a bit of a perfectionist and I always comment on this.
Your experimental work is interesting though, I enjoy it.

[headwax]

Thanks hiho. I appreciate a positive comment from a perfectionist. Wish I was one

[3D Joe Wiltshire]

Very random, The pole dancing banker made me laugh, and I like to see the little details in animations, eg. Those spikes / candles, whatever they are in the picture above, are jauntily angled, increasing realism... It looks superb, and i've heard that human animation is very difficult.

[headwax]

Thanks Joe! I'm sorry I missed your post. . Yes the angles of the points (they are teeth in the mouth of a cookoo clock) really made a big difference. Nothing is straight in real life, especially my teeth . The human animation are real life people who have been mapped with motion capture software. I think the trick is to use it in the right place.....

I'll post a finished video later.

Thanks for the kind comment.

[headwax]

http://www.vimeo.com/2286091

Finished video. Comments and Criticisms welcome of course.

All the meshes are anim8or as are some of the renders. The tunnel sequences are done in anim8or, the round holes are made with transmaps.

Though it's a self portrait as such, the persona is slightly different to myself. I don't do pole dancing in my suit anymore.

I wear a leotard now.

I hope you enjoy it.

edit what a crack up eh?

a few ot renders

[3D Joe Wiltshire]

Nice tree

[headwax]

Thanks Joe. You can't tell, but it's upside down. I stuck an WIP avi of the metronome on a new thread Disaster TIME.