argus1000 produced a new animation: NOAH REVISITED

argus1000

I learned 4 things while working on this new movie. https://youtu.be/bVxXZt4vSPc

1) SYNC DIALOGUE. I never had done a movie with dialogue before. It alot harder. You have to worry about syncing the dialogue with facial expresions. You have to worry about timing and angles. You have to worry about the movement of the eyes, especially diffcult. I don't pretend to be really successful at it. Moreover, I found the Mimic Pro for Carrara plugin counter-intuitive when it comes to changing the phonemes/visemses manually.

2) COMPOSITING. I learned about basic compositing. The cafeteria scene and the rain scene at the end are composites. In the cafeteria scene, the shot of the main  character is superimposed over the background; in the rain scene, at the end, the main character is superimposed over the rain which is superimposed over the background, using chroma key.

3) DYNAMIC HAIR. Thanks to Jonstark (who is credited), I learned to animate my female character's dynamic hair. I don't pretend to have totally succeeded there either.

4) PHYSICS. Thanks to iClone's Physics Toolbox, I have been able to download a forklift from Google's 3D warehouse and govern it with physics only: simulations of three independant wheels, mast, tilter and forks.

https://youtu.be/bVxXZt4vSPc

Ivy

Very entertaining :)

argus1000

Thank you, Ivy. Isn't anybody else interested in animation in this forum? It used to be the "animation" forum, but then a couple of months ago, Daz changed its policy and amalgamated it with another forum and it became "Art studio". Does animation belong here any more?