Okay, In the past I have used Carrara 3d as my main CG tool and in the Daz forums we Carrara users completed some short, simple animations as a group. I was looking for a few Blender users here to do the same thing. I know this has not really gotten off the ground here but I thought that there are plenty of Blender users and this site is very active so this should work. I am just looking to complete a very short simple animation, maybe 2 min long.
So, I am looking for 4 or 5 Blender users who want to participate. My strength is modeling but want to get better at animating. Look forward to doing a simple animation…
Cheers
The foremost goal with this is to actually finish the animation. If we get enough people involved the first thing we need is a Simple Story and go from there. If someone has a story that they want to see animated please chime in here.
Marksingh1324. Awesome. What parts of animation are you most interested in. Everything, modeling, animation , texturing? Right now I need an idea for the animation. We need an idea so if you have one please let me know.
Blazer_Me, Awesome. What is your skillset ? Do you want to model, animate, texture etc. Let me know. Also, If have an idea for the animation please let me know. Right now we don’t have a story. You can post it here if you want. We need an idea so we can start a storyboard and figure out what models we need. I think the style of the animation should match the Ed, Elaine and Porl characters from blend swap I linked to earlier.
Hi Mike333, I love working with Blender to model, animate, and rig. I also have a story. It’s about a 13-year-old girl who, along with her two friends, sneaks onto a ship in search of adventure. Unfortunately, the ship encounters a severe storm and capsizes. After surviving the wreck, the girl discovers that she now has magical/super powers but is stranded on an island. She soon learns that the island is being threatened by dangerous creatures, and she must use her powers, along with her team, to save the day. That’s it.
Blazer, Okay good to know about your skill set. Keep in mind we are doing a short clip, we could do the first part of your story which I like by the way. Do you think you could do a bit of a storyboard for the first part of your story? Maybe flesh out the sneaking onto the ship part. Doesn’t have to be a sketched out storyboard but would be nice, you could also just describe each panel of storyboard if that is better for you.
I will get things more organized either on Discord or the Box site I already have and get back to you tonight.
Hey, if anyone is interested I started a Channel on Discord if you want to join . I don’t really use DIscord although I am on Discord. I don’t know the ins and outs of Discord. If anyone wants to join search under the name of BlenderAnimationGroup , anybody should be able to post there.
Blazer_Me , I posted your story idea in the Concept Ideas Thread there if this is okay.
My username on Discord is mikem8163 if anyone wants to contact me there. I have tried Friend Requests to marksingh#8248 to no avail, it failed to work.
Blazer_Me , do you have a DIscord username so I could make a friend request. Alternately , I set up a Server in Discord, if you search under BlenderAnimationGroup you should find the site… I think you may need this invite code from Discord to Join the group. https://discord.gg/9nWgDfBK
jp1, Yes for sure. I just set up a Discord server for the animation group and we have a possible story even. If you have a story idea, please chime in . Are you on Discord? If you search BlenderAnimationGroup you should find us. Or you can message me your Discord username and I can invite you.
I think you need to use this invite text to find the BlenderAnimationGroup Server. https://discord.gg/9nWgDfBK
Well, we have a story which takes place turn of the century(1900"s) and the character concept sketches. If anyone wants to take a crack at modeling one of them you are more than welcome. Hopefully these characters look ready for an adventure?
Just an experiment to see if Makehuman add on could be useful to create and animate the characters. This is Lily in a more realistice style. I can change the color of the clothes presets and add meshes and parent them to the rig and everything works . I also like the animation controls .
Okay , here is a Makehuman model which took 15 min to make. I am now going to try and modify this model to make the Lily character from a few posts above.
Okay, here is the MakeHuman character modified to look like the Lily character. It didn’t take too long although I had a texture saving issue and Blender just decided to not recognize my Pen pressure. This took time …
Hey, this above Lily character was made in Blender 4.0 using Makehuman as a base for the model and works well. But if I send this character file to someone, they have to be using Blender 4.0 (earlier versions don’t work) and have MakeHuman add on installed. I tried exporting to fbx to get around these issues but the rig comes in unusable in Blender 3.3.1 and 4.0. The hand bones are 3 times the size of the model hands and lots of bones sticking outside the body. Anyone have a clue of a workaround for this. Thanks
A pic of the rig in 3.3.1
