Animation Teasers

[Mayberry]

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

[SteveC116]

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.

[Mayberry]

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."

[Specialagentjim]

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!

[SteveC116]

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

Thanks for the suggestion.

[SteveC116]

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

That is a great render.

If you are rendering a pill.

[SteveC116]

Seriously its good....

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

[Specialagentjim]

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.

[Ryan Dognaux]

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::

[Specialagentjim]

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!

[Soukup]

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

[Koko Ed]

Originally posted by TEAM_74
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.

[Soukup]

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.

[Koko Ed]

Originally posted by TEAM_74
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...

Yeah looks like allnighters this weekend for me as well.
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!

[Specialagentjim]

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 That'll never happen again!