The full grand piano

Keiron

Hi Everyone

Having found a lovely Full grand piano made by Karl Andreas Groß, it need a mech, so I made one and converted it so it could be used in Daz Studio 4.9

Here is a video preview of the New Full Grand Piano playing  "Dancing Hammers", with the Mech, animated and working. it's not using the Iray shaders at the moment as that would take weeks to render all the frames

A classical piece to try out the Piano

Made Using Daz Studio 4.8, MIDIload and MIDIhelper 8201 (1920 x 1080) frames rendered in Open GL 43 mins

Knittingmommy

That was fun to watch!  Have you tried putting a figure in yet with any of your instruments to have them 'play' during the animations?  I, vaguely, remember you started out with animating drums, but I was crazy busy and bookmarked it to go back later and never got back to it.  Then with the sax and the piano, I'm getting more interested.  I wish I were better at animating because I'd love to do a few scenes with figures playing instruments.  Unfortunately, you might have moved on before I get good enough at animation to actually make use of any of this!  Just curious, though, if it's possible to have a figure at the piano and have them 'play' as the music plays and the keys are depressed?  It's a very nice animation!

Keiron

Hi Knittingmommy

I'm pleased to say yes I have, I used a Genesis3 figure to play a keyboard, piano and drums, and just for fun I made a few tutorials on how i did it

one of a few tutorials are here

Kindest wishes

Keiron

 

 

 

Knittingmommy

That was really interesting!  I'm going to have to pick your brain when my animating skills get better and I can actually do some of this stuff.  I'm still on baby steps with animating.  My proudest moments so far were getting a camera to move through a scene while having a couple of doors open!  I'm definitely not ready for something like this.  I'm enjoying what you've managed to come up with so far, though!  I subbed to your YouTube channel so, theoretically, YouTube should notify me if upload a new video.  Keep up the good work!

Keiron

Hi Knittingmommy

It's complex but loads of fun

if you have keymate? or fancy trying it out

When your using the camera try use constant, tcb and linear all available in keymate

Contant gives you an imediate change of camera position just like TV shots

Linear gives you a nice flow from one point to the other so you can pan from one point to the other

Tcb can go a bit haywire, but its still usefull for some shot

Use Perspective view as this doesn't lay down key frames to check out what you want to do then

Create your own camera and set the keyframes at the points you want to see a camera change

Most importantly just have fun with your art

Take good care

Knittingmommy

Yes, I have Keymate and Graphmate, too.  I am having fun.  I'm just learning it all at my own pace.  Most of what I've done up to this point is learning how to pose and how to create my own aniblocks and then recording those.  And then, fine tuning along the keymates to allow for more fluid, natural movement.  Now, I'm actually trying to learn how to do all of the other stuff in animation that allows for more movement of the character instead of having everything static.  I'll get there.  Eventually.  ;)

IceDragonArt

Thats pretty darn impressive

Keiron

Hi Ice Dragon Art

Thank you,  I was hoping to render it using IRAY but the black  / dark colours seem to need a lot more rendering. so the video would take months to complete

might try a lighter colour