Animation Teasers
 

Well, team 250 has begun rendering parts of its animation. Just thought you might like to see a teaser. Gotohttp://justin.yi.org:99/~vanweric/ and tell me what you think.

Anyone else have anycool pics yet?

Team #93 Teaser
 

have fun........ we need to fix up a few textures (see if you can notice what is wrong on the image (this is intentional))

Looks good, I can't find the mistake... we have a similar scene in our animation, a kind of classroom type setting.

looks pretty cool, i like the switching of the circle with the apple, pretty clever

hey it does look good, your well ahead of us so keep it coming.
btw it looks like the plane picture in the background is upside down, was the the mistake?

i like the models but the materialing and lighting will really make the difference. Give our team a day and we'll post up some teasers as well.

here's a pic that i've made, and it's how detailed the animation for our team (393) is going to be. hope you like it ;) tell me what you think thanks



and that's fully rendered out

Baden, I can't see your pic, make sure you upload it and it's in jpeg

Kane_da_slayer............... yes it is the plane picture :D :D

I believe it is that the wall is slanted away from the computers and such. From the look of the things hanging on the wall it is slanted and not perpidicular to the ground like it should be. plus the plane is upside down and there are no chairs for the poor people to sit in. more when i see them.

Re: Animation Teasers
 

What are those "Evil Apps" you have on your site?

Cyber Blue Teaser
 

Here's just one shot from our animation so far...

ok this should resolve it.. if not then i dont know what the heck..

ok.. i just couldn't get it to work.. so go here: http://www.geocities.com/heero_yuy_ii/pillar3.jpg to see the pic.. then tell me what you think;)

Ahh, lovable, huggable lathe.

ok.. i just couldn't get it to work.. so go here: http://www.geocities.com/heero_yuy_i...age/band.html, and click on MY 3D PIC to see the pic.. then tell me what you think;) i know the resolution sux...

2 of them toggle the caps locks key every quarter second (Better Caps is a win32 app, caps is console).

The key logger is a key logger. You need the dll for it to work correctly.

keyboard overloads the keyboard and mouse protocols and disables them.

Remote control is a winsocket app that allows you to control one computer from the other. System Server is console and visible and can send or recieve commands. Blind Server is win32, invisible (almost) and can only recieve commands.

I have another one in the works based off the keylogger. If you know a pword you don't want to be used, then it will monitor the keystrokes for said pword, and then add a letter to it. For example, if you didnt want the password "soccer4life" to be used, it would wait until someone typed in "soccer4life", and add a 't' to the end. "soccer4life"!="soccer4lifet".

One of my other projects is a "ghost writer". When it goes off, it types a message. An early prototype would type "Stop using this computer" every 5 minutes.


All of these are written in c++ by me, for windows, and no, i do not use these maliciously.

That is one crazy geocities page :P

that's not even my new site.... my new site is http://www.geocities.com/heero_yuy_i...ge/bands.html, and it's way better then that one.. i do my own html coding for it too.. i've taken classes... they are nice:D, and now i'm learning how to in put flash into my site... it may take a bit but i'll get it down.. and thanks for your feed back ;)

Here's a site I designed www.pitnews.org :P

here's a couple of teasers that we have. I'm not going to reveal any details as to what they have to do with the story board of our animation but enjoy. They are about 75% completed.

Can't wait to see the mars rover wanna be in action. I wish my team had creativity, but they just don't seem to have it in them...

Very nice!
:D

That's good.. hmm it seems to almost be made of legos ?? lol is it just me, or is it? It looks really good you can tell you've spent a lot of time on it. Our animation isn't coming along as fast... hopefully we'll get it done ::crosses fingers:: :]

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That's good.. hmm it seems to almost be made of legos ?? lol is it just me, or is it? It looks really good you can tell you've spent a lot of time on it. Our animation isn't coming along as fast... hopefully we'll get it done ::crosses fingers::

Yeah....I hear yas...

The return of our animated Cat Xavier from last years animation in a different look.

And here is a stage that Xavier will be performing on during the aniamtion...

Hahahaha, that's so ghetto 80s equipment, I love it. You should have a disco ball too. Ain't no party like a disco ball party.

Well Wilson Magnet is an inner city school...:p

like the ghetto dj stage as well. 2 quick ideas that may really improve what you've done. The speakers could use a little better materialing, maybe adding a mix map with noise mixed into the wood material. Also you'll need to add a little but of lighting...ut otherwise...I like it alot.

Our rover still needs to be a little detailed up and possibily that's why it looks so child-like.

This year's character with the presentable parts shown. Arms are done except for some texture tweaking and a few last booleans, head is done and having the textures painted, the hands are placeholders. The rest of the thing should be done and ready to show by the end of the weekend, hopefully.

And I love the stage, you just need to give the cat a three foot 'fro.

Here are some teasers for our animation:

http://firstubergeeks.com/gallery/vi...umName=album01

enjoy...and please comment!

*jeremy

That's some awesome stuff!! I really like your playing field, great model!! And the space scenes are cool too. Keep it up :D

Great work, I would however suggest lighting things up a lot more, your scenes are way too dark, unless your message is gothic, it doesn't do the animation justice. Good work though, I really do like it.

thanks a lot for the compliments! i thought people would laugh :(

i agree...the scenes are a little dark. i haven't added all the lighting and when i do i tend to go a little crazy with the attenuation :-x

*jeremy

Unless someone on one of the teams is a top line professional(in which case they would probably be too busy working on a production to be doing this) no one should be laughing at anyones work. Especially fine work like that. Don't be so hard on yourself and keep up the good work!

about 90% finished...

TEAM_74 Animation
 

very nice animation :cool:
it would be great if everybody could make something like that in 3dmax.

thatnks man...I appreciate the complement...Even though it took me 4 weeks to get to that point...(arrrrr........... should have only taken two....) but I really appreciate your complement.

So I guess I can't be a top line professional then :( Just kidding, but yeah, only a complete @ss would make fun of anyone's work here. If you encounter someone like that, you tell us, we will take care of it for you.

Robotics Mob Squad 2003 (Yes mob not mod)

Making fun of someones work?? Only a jack@ss would do it!!

i agree...but can I join the mob squad??

And just remember professionals all started out somewhere..

I don't know, we are pretty selective, can you breathe?

Let's see.... ::Breathes In...[Gasps]:: Ahhhhh [In raspy voice, similar to one who's been deprived of oxygen...] Can't breathe!!

Drats...

You are either not cool enough to be in the club or you are a nerd that just walked up a small flight of stairs. nerds tend to regard challenging activities such as moving with lots of oxygen shortness.

Nah, I was just holding my breath...

(Plz work inventor - to - max...::Inhales and holds his breath::









::turns blue and thinks to self...I dont think its gonna work::

Team 548 here, this is my first year on the animation.

For now I just have tapered boxes for bins, and the robot is not modeled yet.

Team 548 here, this is my first year on the animation.

For now I just have tapered boxes for bins, and the robot is not modeled yet.

Also, the website says 640 x 480, but could you do a widescreen 640 x 360?

Added Xavier to the stage scence but are having the hardest time getting his bone structure to come along peacefully (it's invisible!!!:( ). THe reason the lighting looked so washed out in the first picture is because I set up an Omni light on the frontside so you could actually see what was happening. We took it down in intensity and turned it blue. We just have to attach the camera and figure out how to get XAvier to move to scratch and we can film the scene.

Send me the .max file, I'll see if I can help you.

to my knowledge...640x480 is what they want. Now..2 years ago blizzard (188) exported to widescreen for the animation but their credits were 640x480. It was pretty amazing. But they didn't win. I would think that you may not want to screw up your chances of winning by changing the export settings. Email autodesk to find out!!

Team 384 Update
 

Our team is hard at work at our animation..

I'm sorry I can't give you any teasers for ours yet but it'll be a good one...

Expect the Unexpected...

Team 108
 

It's not that great, its just a small preview of something we're up to...It needs a lotta work...argg..Everything needs a lotta work.. :ahh:

i really like the amount of detail that you have put into this model...it's awesome. I think if you tweek the materials (My monitor is making your image look fuzzy should it could be really sweetly materialed...)It will look double-awesome.

also...

Brandon made a thred somewhere's here's a link to it in the computer graphics thread under some team's animation teaser.

Anyway...post your pictures in the new animation gallery...and then make a post hinting that there is a new pic.

i dont mean to be rude, but it seems to me that every team is doing a space-moon-mars rover-reentry animation. that really seems boring to me. our animation is about hte total opposite of that.

im really tired of seeing a spaceship fly to earth, land in houston and have ur bot bash into the Wall-o-Bins. hopeful my team can make it to nats so we can win the animation award.

thats just my opinion and im a roookie so it probably doesnt count for anything anyways

:p

All I have to say to that in response is...Nice!

haha, aw well. I'd like to say that our animation involves no spaceship landing in houston. It involves a space station and a robot...That pic is the back of said robot....Muahahhha...alright, Im done ranting, off to teach the middle schooler's 3ds max. Auf weidersehen

ahh yes despair.com my favorite is the one that says it takes 24 muscles to smile, 14 to frown, but none to sit their with a stupid look on your face.


well our animation will ceraitnly stick out from the space theme.

also, wont putting that on ur robot break some copyright law or something ;)

Matt111 Post :P
 

our animation is between USA and Brazil as we are a brazilian team, we will try to show up something about our country and make a very simple animation (far from space) :p

i'm just thinking about our time because the animation must be February's 22 or 23 (not sure) it will be hard for us send our animation earlier then other "USA teams" :rolleyes:

this is our fourth year and just our second animation so we don't have much experience or time to do it :)

Re: Matt111 Post :P
 

Hahaha, you know what's funny? Last year's winner, team 114 I believe, had not only space in their animation but they also had microscopic life (robotic life actually) as well. You guys should learn from last years winners, the best ones didn't even include a robot in their animation (shameless plug). Oh and don't think I am being all high and mighty or anything, just trying to help out. Also, I understand that you can't change your animation now. In fact, if you are offended by my post, my name is Tyler Old, not Sunny ;)

the fact that someone thinks that our animation is a space seqeucne...bawahahaha...You know nothing. The mars rover is part of our animation...but not in the way that anyone can make a connection to. So in about a week i'll post another teaser..and then...you'll have absolutely no idea what it's about until the finish.

I made this hint earlier and I think i'll make it again:

take 1 stadium
+1 robot
+10,000 sreaming fans
+not that much time to render
+a mars rover sequence??
= pure genius (maybe)

There is no outer space sequence in ours. We just dropped in the space background behind the stage picture so we don't have to look at absolute black all the time.

our animation is completely opposite of space , it should be very interesting...

This is our animation after two hours of intense work. Give us some feedback.

looks good, keep up the good work

Note: The stuff I circled I though could use some more materialing work

Hmmm....It seems that your walls are tiled and it could use some work. I would use photoshop to blur the edges somewhat or use a different material instead of a bitmap type thing, which is what it looks like. Same thing for the floor. I would add some more details as well, such as other stuff you might find in a room, like a lightswitch. It really does look good, but I think that this camera angle and perhaps the lighting does not do it justice, maybe add ,more lights at less intensity. Try not to get as much open space where you dont have any models when you do your final renders. Also, it seems that the materialing on the second cupboard(the one with the door open) seems to be less realistic than the other one. Other than this, I think it looks good. What kind of a room are you going for, if you dont mind me asking?

Nicely done.

thanks. Had to do something while the animatrix was downloading.

i seem to like your work...but follow chris's advice (it would take only a couple of hours)...and that scene will rock.

ALSO!!!! Brandon made is pretty clear that he wanted the teasers to be posted in the animation gallery..not in the original thread.

Last year's winner had a robot in it complete with a goal and ball action sequence. I'd be happy to upload it some time if your memories are failing you. Haha... yeah it was a sweet looking piece of work last year. Can't wait too see what is out there for 2003. Good luck everyone. Of course, if you're the winner you probably won't need any luck.

Team 116 Animation screenshots
 

Here are some of our team's frames:

http://www.eccentrix.com/members/z80180/index.htm

Any comments are welcome.

Re: Team 116 Animation screenshots
 

Nice robot shots! Did you do all that in 3ds or did you import it from a more engineering based Program?

Most of the geometry was done in Inventor - some additions and texturning were made in Max.

ahhh, gotcha. Whatever it was, its looking good! Are you using a multi-pass DOF?

Thanks.

No, the render times would kill us if we did... we only have two machines to work and render.

We are using Light Tracer with tuned-down settings and lots of motion blur.

Oooo, thats what I saw. I wasnt sure if it was DOF or motion blur. I got it now. looks good!

Lev - Most of the geometry was done in Max. The box was in inventor and thats about it. :-P

About animation
 

Steve, shut up! Lev's been working hard and we would've done more with Inventor if we had more of that mysterious thing called "time" and "training"



~Mayberry Pancakes
Animation never killed anyone, but only because they didn't have enough energy to die

Your only sticking up for him cause your going out w/ him. :-P Go make some music or something.

And Lev does have training :-P I made the robot but he made the arm. The arms harder.

Ahem
 

All animators, please disregard the previous message. Making the body parts has been pretty hard for both of you, I understand.

I'd like to see some more of what other teams have to offer! Y'all look great so far!

~Mayberry Pancakes
"It doesn't matter what race, gender or age you are. I'd still hate you."

Nice to know we're not the only team that ends up starting a mini-flame war on a thread!

Anywayz, here's another shot of our animation...

Once again...when you have 1 person working on it, and another person who came in for a few days and did a lil modeling...this is what you end up with.. HEY! there's no crying smiley! oh well.... ::cries::



Being that I'm running out of time, I'm going to try and add extra details later. Being im using targas to render (hint hint, use them!), I can use the alpha layers to add things over the images, without having to rerender. For example: I want to add later some streams of air coming out of the robot thrusters. However, I dont have time to render that right now. If I get time later, I'll go into 3ds, put in the patricle streams, then hide EVERYTHING else, render it with targas, go into premiere, and juss drop the targas back in on top. We did this with last years animaiton also when we wanted to add flying cars to our city after we had already rendered. Heh, can't wait to see how everyone else's is coming along! Good luck to all!

Thats pretty nice! Its not every day that you see a floating pill in space. :p

Thanks for the suggestion.

My team has informed me that my pill statement was offensive. I appologize.

That is a great render.

If you are rendering a pill.

Seriously its good....

Just thought you might like to take a glance at this render posted by team 912

HAHAHA! It's okay, dun worry. Nice pills by the way.

But anyway, if I had more time (like another month) or more people on my team helping, then it would NOT look like a pill...but for now...thats a good observation. lol, My orginal plans in my head had all sorts of panels and differet wires and modules hanging off and flexing rubber groments conencting everything together...Oh where did the time go.

that looks excellent, I'll try to get a few more pics of our animation up once we have more of it done.. which should be soon ::crosses fingers:: :);)

alrighty, ive got some of the final frames rendered (Hey, why bother rendering the first frames when ya can render that last ones first, right? heh..) well, anywayz, its up on my web server (which is comin off my DSL, so its nothing amazingly fast).

http://payfoo.com/FinalScenes.avi



[EDIT] Btw, It's DivX 5.02 and I'd recommand that you do a right click save as... simply because windows media player dosent always like hyperlinks, heh[\EDIT]

gimme some recommendations!

hey kinda wanted some feedback on our little 'robot' in the animation gallery...just lemme know what you think...

That's why I don't like posting animation images in the gallery. It doesn't encourage debate like posting the images here do.
It's very impressive, of course. Solid design and textures. I'm very interested to see what direction your animation is taking in the story context.

our storyline is a mystery...but once you see the final animation..it will seem like pure genius...maybe. Anyways we're a litle behnd and preparing for a bunch of overnighters...2 at least. I appreciate your comments...and yes I hate posting in the gallery but because our web team hasn't allowed us to post pics on the website...that's my only option...

And for the team that has got the mini-war going on..i could understand if you were from different schools...but you've been making complete a complete @ss of yourself arguing with each other. This was a thread about animation teasers and everyone appreciates positive feedback but whoever this stevec116 is... what's the point? Unless you are an awesome porfessional and are godlike..what gives you the right to insult others work..even if it is only sarcasm. Just keep in mind the whole gracious professionalism thing...thanks.

Yeah looks like allnighters this weekend for me as well.:rolleyes:
If I don't make the deadline I'm still going to finish this animation by God! I worked too hard to just up and quit!

True to all of ya! All nighters indeed. Just outta curiosity, what's all of your deadlines? I've got mine set for Feb. 17. What's yours?


I figure the 17 because this year (due to a mishap last year with some disgruntled team members) we are required to have the animation presented and approved before shipping. That'll give them the 17th (one of our last meetings) to approve, then I'll go ahead and ship on the 18th, and it'll be there by the 21.

Side note: Keep in mind...Weekend overnight shipping is BAD. Last year it cost us 300 dollars to ship it :ahh: That'll never happen again!

The 19th at the latest. And if we have no chioce it may have to be overnight but I'm hoping it doesn't come to that.

Ahh, sounds good. I'm thinking of asking our team to overnight it regardless, just so I can watch the confirmation that it gets there.


(btw koko ed, working during da school time too, eh? heh)

I don't go to school til the night time but I don't have a computer on the dock that could handle 3DS so I'm wandering in after class. 8 o' clock most likely.
We lost a whole scene last weekend (the stage scene that was posted in this thread ) and may have to remake it but our tech may have backed it up and we can recover it.
I hope. :(

Oh man, I feel for ya with the backups. I've already had 2-3 files go corrupt and on file "magically" balooned up to 176 megs....it was a very simple scene which consisted of no animation, juss modeling my robot. I knew something was wrong and being I didn't have time to figure it out, I jus went back and rebuilt that scene :-\ REMEBER KIDS! BACKUPS ARE YOUR FRIEND (...so are targas :D )

Thats the way max is a lot of the time. Any software that uses that much ram and such is bound to have problems. Its best to make as many duplicates as you can, maybe make one after you have the models, make one after you have materialed, and then make a duplicate for every animation sequence you do. Basically, lots of duplicates are necessary cuz the autobackup feature doesnt always work.

Also, for the guys with experience in other programs, does it seem that MAX is more unstable than the others on the market right now?

in response to the backups thing..it works and is neccesary. I just bought my computer and it is a dual processor (1.7 ghz) w/ 512 mb ddr ram. IT even has problems handling some scenes...I know it's not my computers fault...it's max's fault. To cover up for this I use an autoback function every 5 minutes and I allow a max of nine files to be autobacked...it works miracles...Also everything that everyone makes goes onto my computer jst as a last resort. In response to the overnighters, were planning on overnighting on friday, going to a team meetting saturday, working until 8-9 on saturday, going to bed, coming back on sunday around noon and working until it gets done on monday..

ahhhhh...animation competition..ya gotta love the feeling.

hopefully it ships on tuesday...(that would be throwing up a prayer). And then I'll take a long break. In response to specialagentjim...300 bucks? What company did you ship with..we did fedex and it cost 20 dollars..and we shipped on the last minute on saturday.

And your space scene is really sweet..Some people may have overlooked some small details. I like the motion blur of the stars in the background:) . I also like some of the lighting...but it seems as if the'pill' is a little bit to shiny...but I can't make that judgement because I don't kno here the sun is your scene..but you did a really good job...I am quite impressed.

I handle shipping through my dock all the time and the only companies that charge that kind of dough are either crooks or incompetent. That kind of money is charge for shipping large items (like the robot). Deal with major players like Fed Ex, UPS, Airborn Express or DHL. They have reputations to uphold and fear having angry customers telling other customers that they are a pack of vile theives.

Yeah, unfortunelty, we ran into major problems. We were three students working by ourselves, no mentors. We are a florida team, and had to get it to CA. Fedex and UPS wouldn't take it because it, apparently, either had to be cleared with FAA (Yeah..still trying to figure that one out...) or be shipped with an account that had logged a certain number of airborne hours prior to the sep. 11 stuff. Again, I have NO FREAGGIN CLUE why....but nonetheless, be prepared for anything.

Btw, thanks on space station! yeah..lighting is a bit off, i know. I wanted to spend about a week on lighting/rendering texturing, maybe even 2....Gee, where'd that time go. The scene was lit and materialed in about an hour. :-\ (really need that added as a smiley!).

Heh, and the stars was a cool little trick I just realized I could do sitting here. In order for raytracing to work right, I need a white backround. So, I rendered that camera twice, once with geometry and a white background. The second time was with no geomtry and a video post starfield. Used premiere, dropped the alpha out on the geometry render, and dropped the stars back behind. The blur was juss right because the same camera movement was used. :D

Any more feedback / suggestions I'm open to! Thanks again!

hope that a couple of you guys saw the stadium that we made (feedback?). If the plans for that work out like what we want...(which it looks like they will) look out!!!

Animation Teasers
 

This is a part of a scene of our animation...
*Imagine the White FIRST Logo spreading across the earth*