critter thingy

Artwork Works in Progress
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http://fzy.mine.nu/~lunpa/blends/stills/critter_mike_revamped_low.png
http://fzy.mine.nu/~lunpa/blends/critter_thingy_ani.blend

This is a critter who I want to animate walking around… I hope 3 or 4 days will be enough time to do it with motion blur on :slight_smile:

The hair has made an awsome transition from looking like pubic hair, as shown at:
http://fzy.mine.nu/~lunpa/blends/stills/critter_mike_old.png
(btw, I didn’t use any of the plugins for generating hair etc)

At this point, I realy have no idea what the back view looks like, though in the animation I’m just going to have it walk twards the camera after dancing a little, so it shouldn’t matter…

One thing I find intresting is that it seems in the reflection, the static particles don’t show up… a friend tells me they don’t relfect at all, so I think I’ll make the suroundings more organic later.

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fun looking little guy… the hair is very nice.

waiting for ainimation.

.b

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Great hair on the guy. I couldn’t tell that there was any armpit hair on the guy or any Stucci texture on the ground until I saw the .blend though; you might want to make them more noticeable somehow. Maybe it’ll be better in the animation. I look forward to seeing it; good luck!

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thanks alot :slight_smile:

I’ll probably animate it tonight and through school tomarow to get a rough idea of what it’ll be like so far… if it turns out right, I’ll make the animation longer and have it do some other things.

I have 3 days next week when I’ll be out of town, so I figure that will be a good time to do a more complicated animation :slight_smile:

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I got the animation, though I forgot to do something relatively important, and thus it looks pretty funny.

It would apear my server is dead… if anyone knows of a place I can upload this, I would apreciate knowing said place :slight_smile:

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One thing that may help render-times considerably is to animate only the figure, then composite him into the finished shot with the Sequence Editor. This is especially true if motion-blur is needed.

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that and not using raytracing ^^ also rendering in another workspace helps because it doesn’t need to update the image for X.

I think I’m going to make the floor textureless for untill I get the animation good enough, wich then I’ll add fun sceanery etc.

the server is up again, so heres the animation:
http://fzy.mine.nu/~lunpa/blends/0001_0111.avi
the file size is a tad big though…

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two things I’m not too fond of in the animation:

a) obviouse errors with the hair (forgot to bind it to the bones)
and
b) obviouse texture problems in the body…

How do I fix B?

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alright, fixed “A”, and removed the texture from the floor.
heres a screenshot of the last frame:
http://fzy.mine.nu/~lunpa/blends/stills/critter_mike_fixed2.png
and I updated the blend on the server… look at the first post for the link.

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aboot the animation

jon, it doesnt really look like mike, its more like…duff

at the beginning it goes young duff
at the end…old duff

whoops, i hope thats a potato in my pants