First steps in animation (update page 2 )

kwistenbiebel · Post by **kwistenbiebel** » Tue Apr 01, 2008 12:19 pm

Hi all,

I wanted to share my first try on animation using Skindigo.
See here:

[EDIT]: I updated the movie:longer version + balanced brightness and saturation:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-hZON6peOE

It's noisy and not perfect but I have to say that 2 hours and 15 minutes of render time is not bad for 9 seconds of footage

Cheers,
Kwistenbiebel

cpfresh · Post by **cpfresh** » Tue Apr 01, 2008 12:22 pm

AWESOMENESS!

kwistenbiebel · Post by **kwistenbiebel** » Tue Apr 01, 2008 12:24 pm

Thanks!

And by the way, Thank you Cpfresh for letting me in on the secret of the 'easter egg' in Whaats fantastic Skindigo exporter. (although I figured out parts of it myself

)

suvakas · Post by **suvakas** » Tue Apr 01, 2008 6:35 pm

lol..looks like a pre-historical computer animation

kwistenbiebel · Post by **kwistenbiebel** » Tue Apr 01, 2008 7:49 pm

suvakas wrote:lol..looks like a pre-historical computer animation

I updated the movie in the first post:
It's a longer version now and brightness/saturation corrected.
Hopefully you like it better now....

suvakas · Post by **suvakas** » Tue Apr 01, 2008 8:29 pm

Yes, a bit better now.
The animation itself is cool, but the rendering quality and all that dancing noise makes it look like a very early amateur film camera shot.
Just let it cook longer.

kwistenbiebel · Post by **kwistenbiebel** » Wed Apr 02, 2008 3:00 pm

I don't have a render farm unfortunately....
This animation was done using a laptop core2duo

For such a small render power, I was pretty pleased when considering this was done only in a few hours .....

2 MORE ANIMATIONS:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAxdSfJ8JHo

AND:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bs8Yvz90VKg

Post by **OnoSendai** » Wed Apr 02, 2008 4:04 pm

Wow.. the last two are pretty cool!
Would be great to see these rendered on a renderfarm

Big Fan · Post by **Big Fan** » Wed Apr 02, 2008 7:41 pm

hey ono go see Peter Jackson

and tell him about Indigo for rendering movie backgrounds

Vanessa07 · Post by **Vanessa07** » Wed Apr 02, 2008 8:15 pm

Big Fan

Great work

Very impressive, how did you make your trees, what is your 3D modeler?

kwistenbiebel · Post by **kwistenbiebel** » Wed Apr 02, 2008 8:58 pm

Thanks Ono, Big fan and Vanessa

@Vanessa: I use sketchup as modeler and the trees are .3ds imports from various sources which I instanced and made into proxies by using the Skindigo plugin.

Zom-B · Post by **Zom-B** » Wed Apr 02, 2008 9:21 pm

very cool stuff, I'm still waiting for a Indigo Community Animation rendering Project

Just one hints for your next great animation:

EaseIn & EaseOut are your friends, Disney's rules of Animation are still counting, your flythrough are changing direction way to "hard".

dougal2 · Post by **dougal2** » Wed Apr 02, 2008 10:15 pm

The last one is your best IMO, the camera movement is smooth and you've got a nice model to show off. the other 2 are just a bit "random".

Vanessa07 · Post by **Vanessa07** » Wed Apr 02, 2008 10:29 pm

kwistenbiebel

How much polys count the tripod scene?
and
What about rendertime?

Kram1032 · Post by **Kram1032** » Thu Apr 03, 2008 4:27 am

Nice stuff

Would be interesting to have a program, that removes noise, based on the last few frames and the next few frames of an animation and where the blur-effect, that usually happens with noise reduction, translates into a nice decent motion blur effect

That'd both fix the lack of motion blur and reduce the render time, until a frame looks good

First steps in animation (update page 2 )

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