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Title: Did anybody try making Buzz Lightyear in Anim8or?
Post by: animation-nation on November 15, 2008, 11:25:40 am
I know I tried but it didn't come out too well. I was wondering if i could have some assistance. Here are some refference pictures.

http://joelamoroney.files.wordpress.com/2008/06/buzz.jpg

http://www.mkesports.com/files/QuickSiteImages/Buzz_Lightyear.jpg

http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film/DVDReviews17/a%20John%20Lasseter%20Toy%20Story%20%20Woody%20%20Buzz%20Lightyear%20DVD%20Review/an%20John%20Lasseter%20Toy%20Story%20%20Woody%20%20Buzz%20Lightyear%20DVD%20Review%20PDVD_015.jpg

Title: Re: Did anybody try making Buzz Lightyear in Anim8or?
Post by: 3D Joe Wiltshire on November 15, 2008, 01:46:55 pm
Well we can't really help you if we don't know what you're struggling with.
Title: Re: Did anybody try making Buzz Lightyear in Anim8or?
Post by: animation-nation on November 15, 2008, 07:35:37 pm
Just wondering if anybody's a good 3d design modeler
Title: Re: Did anybody try making Buzz Lightyear in Anim8or?
Post by: Roy_Raimi on November 15, 2008, 08:52:42 pm
well probably shapeing it will be kinda easy, like the head, body, and coloring it. But the helmet is tricky if u ask me, i dont know how to make things transparent to make it have that effect. But whats your problem on makeing it..?
Title: Re: Did anybody try making Buzz Lightyear in Anim8or?
Post by: animation-nation on November 16, 2008, 12:38:30 am
Well I, as one who has very almost one year of experience with this progeam would have a long list but

- Makeing holes for screws.
- Doing the arm (the shapes and the flap for the communicator/scanner)
- The buttons, the legs and feet,
- The hands will have to be the hardest part.
- Those two purple things on the torso,
and I may need assistance with the back...
Title: Re: Did anybody try making Buzz Lightyear in Anim8or?
Post by: Indian8or on November 16, 2008, 02:50:43 am
Yes, to the best of my modelling experience with anim8or, you can do it with anim8or.  You need not model all the things as one piece.  Try to model accessories as different objects.  As far as materials are concerned, anim8or can offer best of it, you only need to keep experimenting.
Title: Re: Did anybody try making Buzz Lightyear in Anim8or?
Post by: headwax on November 16, 2008, 04:53:08 am
animation-nation

show us what you have done so far and we can help. Or are you asking for somone to model  this for you?

For the helmet just use an eviron map  for those reflections.

The hands are e asy, just do the hand tut on the tutorial page
Title: Re: Did anybody try making Buzz Lightyear in Anim8or?
Post by: im not a people person73 on November 16, 2008, 06:49:02 pm
how i would make buttons,intrude,texture,extrude
Title: Re: Did anybody try making Buzz Lightyear in Anim8or?
Post by: 3D Joe Wiltshire on November 18, 2008, 03:26:21 pm
And you don't really need the holes for the screws unless people are gonna be seeing the dissasembled body, As others have said, I usually model accessories as seperate objects, since I find it difficult to carve one shape into a full object.
Title: Re: Did anybody try making Buzz Lightyear in Anim8or?
Post by: animation-nation on November 18, 2008, 09:48:05 pm
Hey y'all,

So I tried once again.

I did try to make the arms and legs but I just don't have that much experieice with this program.


This is what I made so far;
http://img19.picoodle.com/img/img19/3/11/18/f_buzzlightyem_a51979a.png

This is what I'm using to help
http://www.pixar.com/featurefilms/ts/images/behind_buzz_wire.jpg

And here's what I was wondering, I was wondering if there were any good 3d modelers here so I could work with them. I build the most of the figure I can and the other can finish it.
Title: Re: Did anybody try making Buzz Lightyear in Anim8or?
Post by: lynn22 on November 19, 2008, 03:48:11 am
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I just don't have that much experience with this program.

Just keep at it, practice makes perfect. By the time you have finished every part of Buzz you won't need someone else to do it for you. ;)
Title: Re: Did anybody try making Buzz Lightyear in Anim8or?
Post by: headwax on November 19, 2008, 11:11:22 pm
Heh. Good advice lynn22.

animationnation,

do you have a goof full face shot of buzz, not at an angle.

and do you have a profile shot of his face? again not an angle shot?

or do you have a buzz toy you can photograph?

if you do stick them up.

animanon.com has a mentor program that would help you.

ask for Kevin  Kreator.
Title: Re: Did anybody try making Buzz Lightyear in Anim8or?
Post by: kreator on November 20, 2008, 02:48:28 am
haha andrew!!! I have already started doing Buzz,   but my kids hav`nt got a buzz lightyear toy so I`m going off off web photos
at the moment!.... seriously if animation wants any help then obviously check out www.animanon.com.... perhaps we can start animating him as well
Title: Re: Did anybody try making Buzz Lightyear in Anim8or?
Post by: Dosser on November 20, 2008, 03:44:04 am
I'd recommend not trying to copy Pixar's wireframe. Instead find a rendered shot of Buzz and draw that. Honestly, the Pixar wireframe looks so different from the real thing that even if you copied it perfectly it would look wrong.
Title: Re: Did anybody try making Buzz Lightyear in Anim8or?
Post by: kreator on November 22, 2008, 09:44:41 am
here`s what I started, looking for more refs how are the legs jointed?
Title: Re: Did anybody try making Buzz Lightyear in Anim8or?
Post by: kreator on November 23, 2008, 05:51:28 am
bit more today .... head is just a jpeg mapped onto ovaloid sphere for now...
Title: Re: Did anybody try making Buzz Lightyear in Anim8or?
Post by: 3D Joe Wiltshire on November 23, 2008, 01:55:12 pm
Helmet is a bit... odd, the helmet joint interested me, so i tried modelling it, an8 file attached.
Title: Re: Did anybody try making Buzz Lightyear in Anim8or?
Post by: kreator on November 24, 2008, 02:06:31 pm
Thanks for your input Joe!.....I hav`nt yet finished the helmet yet, what with other bits and pieces in progress I just do little bits now and again. but it seems the party who started the thread off  ie:  animation nation does`nt appear to be interested in the topic now.

   
Title: Re: Did anybody try making Buzz Lightyear in Anim8or?
Post by: headwax on November 24, 2008, 04:31:29 pm
Nice work Kevin. That face, is err interesting

Yes it's a pity about animation nation
Title: Re: Did anybody try making Buzz Lightyear in Anim8or?
Post by: 5L1D3R on November 26, 2008, 02:01:56 pm
If you want the best reference, without having to keep pausing the movies, check out your local toy store for a small Buzz Lightyear toy (should be less than $10).  In my opinion reference images never match up to a physical object, especially when trying to get a look from that tricky angle that the camera always seems to miss.  Even George Lucas still uses maquettes for the CG objects in Star Wars.
Title: Re: Did anybody try making Buzz Lightyear in Anim8or?
Post by: kreator on November 29, 2008, 03:55:30 am
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I have already started doing Buzz,   but my kids hav`nt got a buzz lightyear toy

5L1D3R: Yep you are right, But I don`t wanna spend cash out on a toy. unless my kids really want it ( which they don`t)