mikejedw
March 3, 2006, 6:25am
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The theme of this Animation Challenge is:
A Dive
The rules are here . Keep an eye on the file size and time limit!
Contest ends Monday, March 13th, 2006, at 9 p.m. Eastern U.S. time (Tuesday, March 14th, 2 a.m., Greenwich Mean Time):
You can find stock models here:
https://blenderartists.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=31839
http://www.freewebs.com/apollux/Rigging_Set-Up.html
http://mitglied.lycos.de/skatenzock/webob1/other_zeus.html
http://home.att.net/~yorik/SomeGuyExp1.zip
You can find free music (Creative Commons cc-by-sa-nc) at magnatune:
And you can find free sound effects (CC Sampling Plus license) at the freesound project:http://iua-freesound.upf.es/
If you need server space to post animations, try these hosts:http://www.ourmedia.org/ http://www.archive.org/movies/opensource_movies.php http://gallery.mudpuddle.co.nz/
Remember, Keep It Simple ! Don’t take a dive by making it too complex!
Also please post a frame grab for your animation . This will help keep voting straight and make sure all the votes go to the right place.
mikejedw
March 3, 2006, 11:43am
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By the way, if anyone is looking to improve their model’s image textures, especially the tilable images, I highly recommend Resynthesizer and Texturize for The GIMP. Check out this forum:
https://blenderartists.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=63148&highlight=
3Dean
March 3, 2006, 11:48am
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placeholder…if I have enough time.
AndyD
March 8, 2006, 6:29am
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Didn’t have time to put a placeholder so went straight to the animation instead
It’s 240x320 but vertical; hope that’s okay with everyone.
Get it here >>>>>> DIVE
It’s Quicktime - you’ve been warned. It’s under 500kb so it’s worth a try anyway.
100% Blender (converted to QT in iMovie coz my Blender doesn’t have it). No audio. No copyright infringements.
McSmiffy
March 8, 2006, 2:09pm
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Nice one AndyD
You had me convinced he was going to jump from 3,000ft
I like the facial expression and love the bird - nice touch.
Cessen
March 9, 2006, 7:13am
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Here’s my entry.
Small (320x240 25fps): http://www.cessen.com/storage/video/the_dive_small.mp4 387 KB MPEG-4http://www.cessen.com/storage/video/the_dive.mp4 1 MB MPEG-4
The small one conforms to the required format. I actually animated for 24fps, but I don’t think the switch to 25fps for the small one will affect it much.
McSmiffy
March 11, 2006, 4:37am
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I think penguins have been getting some bad press lately.
Ok so they’re no good at hide and seek -
And have you tried kicking a football on an ice rink? -
So here is my animation showing what penguins are good at.
Its called “Always have a dive before breakfast”
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/smiffy42/files/dive.avi
(xVid 1mB)
mikejedw
March 11, 2006, 8:15am
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Oh, that’s just the chinstrap penguins. Emperor penguins are actually very capable creatures
Aligorith
March 11, 2006, 10:36pm
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placeholder… I’m getting there…
Aligorith
Here’s my entry, some problems with deformation of the model. And I still have real dificulties working up a walk cycle.
But, overall, I think I’m improving. Slightly. microscopically…
Its all a matter of perception…
http://www.archive.org/download/Elysiun_contest_30__The_Dive/thedive.avi
Cessen
March 12, 2006, 9:44pm
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Hey McSmiffy, I liked that. Made me chuckle.
mikejedw
March 17, 2006, 1:04pm
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