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ivanisavich 4,196 posts
Hey peeps......this weekend I'll be working on a dialogue acting piece using a clip from the sitcome "Seinfeld"
I'll keep you posted with playblasts soon!
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ALi 608 posts
I haven't seen Seinfeld. but I have seen your stuff. can't wait to see what you're going to show us.
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amer 60 posts
This ought to be hilarious! can't wait
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ivanisavich 4,196 posts
Ok here's my first blast.
Currently all that's done is the hip movement is blocked out....sooo....there's going to be quite a bit of movement that isn't going to make sense. But I'm just posting this so you people can see my workflow a bit more
http://www.tysonibele.com/Main/Animatio ... blast1.mov (3.5mb)
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ivanisavich 4,196 posts
I should also mention that once I'm done animating these characters, I'll be changing up their appearances a bit so they don't look identical, and the "Kramer" one will be slightly uglier than the "Jerry" one.
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ALi 608 posts
Argh.. i downloaded it. it's 3.33mb and when I try to open it says that movie contains invalid data.
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ivanisavich 4,196 posts
Hmm......that's strange. After you posted I clicked on it and it downloaded just fine (btw....3.33 mb is right.....I just rounded up to 3.5
)
Anyone else having that problem?
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ALi 608 posts
I'm downloading it again. this time I can see the preview. seems that it's ok now.
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Global 1,589 posts
hehe - looking forward to the updates bud!
Be sure to post regular updates too, as this will be very useful to others here. I'm very interested too, as your way of working is so very different to mine (I don't think I could switch... I think I'd find it too off putting seeing IK dragged around and stuff!)
But your first workflow question is this. Do you animate your CoG until you are 99% happy with it before you even touch any other part of the body or is it more of a 'blocking in' type process on the initial pass.
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ivanisavich 4,196 posts
Hey Globes thanks for dropping by...I'll be sure to post regular updates as requested
As for the CoG ("center of gravity" for those of you who aren't animation-jargon inclined
) blocking......well normally, yes, I'll animate it to a point where I'm 99% sure that it fulfills the exact motions I want in my character.
That being said, I'll still end up doing a heck of a lot of CoG tweaking as I continue to animate the rest of the limbs....because sometimes my foresight wasn't good enough, or I run into other problems (like maybe I blocked out the body going to high up in the air....so when I go to animate the feet, they can't touch the ground etc)......which means that in the end (looking back)....my blocking stage only fulfilled about 70 % of the final animation, instead of the originally-intended 99%.
Knowudimean?
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ALi 608 posts
Looking forward to see updates.
Do you always animate characters in this way?
(mean your procedure, seems interesting.)
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ivanisavich 4,196 posts
Yep
always
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Richard 1,943 posts
what i like about your animations is that they are always entertaining and i wouldn't mind watching them over and over again. i cant obviously say much to crit this animation but as far as i am concerned i would no worry about the final result.
all these clips you chose lately, how do you come up with them, do you just gor on movieways for example and do inni mini mo?
anyway,
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ivanisavich 4,196 posts
Yea I usually just jump on a website with tons of movie wavs, do some browsing and then pick one that fits my mood
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ar LutiK 455 posts
T make the Kramer taller
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PolecatIV 51 posts
Great T! Waiting for more updates
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ivanisavich 4,196 posts
Hey guys I didn't get a chance to work on this at all yesterday...but I'm going to try and pick up my socks and get it done tonight
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Richard 1,943 posts
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ivanisavich 4,196 posts
Lower body animation is pretty much done.
Here's a playblast (with the upper bodies hidden since there's nothing done on them yet)
http://www.tysonibele.com/Main/Animatio ... blast2.mov (3mb)
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BColbourn 2,323 posts
damn tyson your hot
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ivanisavich 4,196 posts
***Update***
Spines done for the most part. Onto the arms!
http://www.tysonibele.com/Main/Animatio ... blast3.mov (2.7mb)
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ivanisavich 4,196 posts
Alright well I'm tired of animating tonight so I'm going to model the environment and do some lighting tests...hopefully I'll post some updates soon!
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nux 199 posts
stellar. looking good so far man.
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BColbourn 2,323 posts
i love being able to see your workflow tyson, its very enlightening.
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ivanisavich 4,196 posts
Thanks man
Here's a screenshot of the little apartment I modelled. Now it's texturing time!
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ivanisavich 4,196 posts
Crap I forgot cupboard doors lol...
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effstops 83 posts
Lookin good so far! Being able to see the way you work is helping me a whole lot. Do you animate your character with certain parts hidden or are you doing that just for us?
The door slam is the only weak spot I see (the legs get a little wacky). Are you going to clean that up? Everything else looks great!
Looking forward to see how you texture and light this scene. I can't wait to see this animation come together!
--Colin
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whaaabamb 615 posts
looking great dude great eviorment detail so far cant wait to see more!
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amer 60 posts
sweet!
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PolecatIV 51 posts
Grea'T!!! Legs, hips and spines are much expressive!
I'll stay tuned for more updates
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iest_rob 1,671 posts
Dang man! Dont know how i missed this! Its excellent to finally see how you animate, I really like the fact that you've hidden the top half of the body when you animate the legs. How did you do this? Did you put on a different layer, and hide it? Or just simply turn off the visibility?
Also - how did you do the 1st playblast? What i mean is that the body and arm still refer to the Lowman contorl thingy the other side of the door, does that not confuse the hell out of you?
Awsome work again man.
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mahmoudnahmad 1,159 posts
loving it loving it cant wait
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iest_rob 1,671 posts
Just watched it again, and the only thing that bothers me a bit is the guy that's closing the door's right leg, as hes closing the door the leg slides over very fast.
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PolecatIV 51 posts
While we're waiting for Ts upgrades, can anybody transcribe the dialog? I'm not english or american and I don't understand the situation and the feelings of actors.
Thankyou guys!
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iest_rob 1,671 posts
I think it goes like this, (dont know much about Sinfeld (Larry David is awsome though), but this is what i get;
Guy 1: Terry, my face is my livleyhood....everything i have i owe it to this face, it's my illure (?) my twinkle
Guy 2: Your..your teeth are all brown
Guy 1: Look away im hideious
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PolecatIV 51 posts
Thanks iest_rob!! Now I understand the scene
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ivanisavich 4,196 posts
Yep that's pretty much the dialogue......except it's "Jerry" instead of "Terry"
Here's a lighting test. I want to do a lot more texture work (add more dirt/cracks etc to walls etc and messy it up a bit).....but this is the basic scheme.
Btw...I just picked a random frame from what I have so far.....so that's why their arms are still messed up etc
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iest_rob 1,671 posts
Nice one T. The fridge texture looks awsome! And i also dig the wall texture very much - good job once again!
Ahh Jerry - i was close!
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mahmoudnahmad 1,159 posts
loveing the sparkle texturing if its sparckle as i think any way what renderer did u use nice out come
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PolecatIV 51 posts
Very good! Nice render, nice, nice... I don't want to imagine the final result with the details you wrote... The T is in the house, or in the kitchen!
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Richard 1,943 posts
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ivanisavich 4,196 posts
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Craig 63 posts
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Richard 1,943 posts
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ivanisavich 4,196 posts
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hype 2,964 posts
thanx, tyson, that was really helpful to see your stages of animation. answers alot of questions for me. hair and clothing is gonna be sweet!
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iest_rob 1,671 posts
Hair and clothing would be awsome.
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PolecatIV 51 posts
4 days with no updates, can we think Tyson is working on amazing cloth & hair fx?
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hype 2,964 posts
i don't know, "the machine" (t!) stopped on this long enough to exhale a front page plug at cgtalk. i'm sure he'll be back on this after a meal and the 4 blinks that constitue sleep for him.
and, of course, i mean all that in a flattering, complimentary, idolizing way.
