black bear

so this is my first animation project and the latest update is at the bootom of the stack of posts, i’m using my own models and free ones trying to balance quality with time effectiveness, what you like about it or dont like would be interesting to hear, thanks!

It’s always the flaming cow that gets you in the end.

Woah! I haven’t been on a trip like that since college! phew.
The sounds scared me at first. I thought something happened to my speakers. Well, they scared me after that too. :stuck_out_tongue: The animation looked pretty smooth and the bear reminded me of that other bear character with big white eyes across the internet that tends to have its head overlayed on other’s bodies. Not too shabby for a first try. Perhaps you could try to fix when the bear intersects with the female character and falls into abyss.

I agree with Billt. It was either really good or really bad. Here is what would make the difference. Did you have a point? And can you find someway to make that point clear? either a simple text line at the beginning or the end or something… Otherwise it was just a random scattered set of psychodelic images.

Well this is a work in progress, and my initial coffee inspired barrage of an explanation barely frosts the surface of what’s going on, the facts are as follows, I’ve been messing around with blender for about 2 years, I’ve switched to 2.57, I finally figured out how to render animation and not end up with a million useless pictures in my output file. I work at the Black Bear bakery; an anarchist vegetarian co-op in St Louis, I decided to make a film that will eventually be about the bakery in a non-overt sort of way, I’m shooting for a early eighties look and feel of raw japanime. There’s going to be a lot more hopefully I usually get about 15 seconds a day on average, unless I have to build/ modify a scene/ object. That’s why I like the idea of utilizing some of the free shared models . at this rate by myself I could do a feature length film in about 1 year. I think Blender institute would be hard pressed to pull that off, that’s where I come in. :wink:

so I too noticed that a bit late, but that was a problematic scene, I’m thinking… that rather than visual perception, i want psychological and emotional perception to dominate, and the rough and tumble style is new (japanime originally wouldn’t of had to deal with models intersecting, because their drawn by hand) but to let you know that model of the girl is pretty awesome and maybe above my level of blender understanding, I cant even get the limit locks on the legs undone to ride the bear properly. plus the whole rig seems to have been made by an alien master race. so maybe if the world demands that I clean it up I will do something about it, but really I feel I should do that on a model I create myself for pay someday in an all original movie., I don’t know what will become of this its mind boggling to say the least.

OK-- cool. Looking back I sounded really harsh. It was just so stylized that I wasn’t sure if it was purposeful or just a bunch of scattered images…

But now that you explain it, I can sure see a lot of your inspiration. So awesome!

this is my latest update, I will continue to update every so often.

heres a new-new update 7-14-11

next update is here[video]http://www.youtube.com/user/themightyspringwater#p/a/u/0/HUCpyU6W8_w[/video]

Man dude. That is pure psychedelic. Awesome.