Lip sync clip from "The Shining"....Final Pass

Hey people,

Finished up this clip in the wee hours of this morning. Checks it outs!

http://www.tysonibele.com/Main/Animatio ... _final.mov

Woah dude im scared, poor guy. What did he do to deserve that?


Nice work though, great stuff.

Awsome Tyson, great stuff! I really like your camera movements, it actually feels like someone's holding the camera as oppose to a machine where everything is smooth - yours stand out, very distinctive. Nice one.

The animation itself is great, nice poses, i love his last but one 'go check it out', his little fingers get all excited. Really good movements on his laugter as well. Another good one for the 'awsome anim.' folder on my computer. Nice one.

dang, that was awesome.

i like how you quietly snuck in that kick ass match flame with friggin PERFECT smoke! could this be your entry into the challenge?

stunning animation, though. everything about it, camera move, atmosphere...

i wish autodesk would contact you about writing a book.

Hey guys,

Thanks for checking it out and ESPECIALLY thanks for the critiques!

Despite the fact that it's in my character to cringe when I post things and ask for critiques because I'd like to think it's perfect and that there's nothing wrong with it....it's the suggestions and critiques that I end up appreciating the most, because I can take those and try to apply them all to my next piece.

hype: nah man I figured it would be a cop-out if I submitted this to the challenge too...so I'm going to do something different for it

aden: good call on the bright box man. That was one of the things that I sah as I was trying to get my final render out at 7am (because I had worked through the night on it)...so I was like "crap" and then "aaah...screw it"

richard: I know I pm'd ya about it....but so everyone else know, the smoke was all done in max. I set up a PArray particle system consisting of several thousand tiny spheres and 2 wind spacewarps controlling turbulence, all with a falloff material, and then rendered that sequence out and brought it into After Effects, where I blurred it, and layered it overtop the footage using the "Screen" blending mode.

Also good call on the "they don't seem to look at each other" comment....Pete's rig currently doesn't use an aim look-at constaint for the eyes (it just uses UI sliders/points), which means it's not only hard to aim them correctly, but it's also even harder to get them to focus on something while the head turns. I made some changes to his rig for this animation (set up a fingers UI, as well as a visible UI for the eyebrows instead of just the custom attributes), and I think for my next animation with this character I'm going to re-rig the eyes as well for that reason

jurk_boy: yep it's all hand animated in 3ds max 8. no plugins were used either, besides VRay as the renderer

global: I totally agree bro. One thing I've been struggling with is setting out defined poses at certain important intonations, and I'm glad you pointed out that you think it's lacking in this one because it means I've got something to work on next time. And lip sync is still something I'm practicing so I'll definitely check out that line you mentioned and see if I can think of a way to improve his pronounciations.

That being said.....I don't think I'm actually going to go and re-touch this animation, but as I mentioned above....I'm going to keep all those comments in mind for my next one.....which should be soon! (I'm trying to do 1 every weekend for the next while)

Congrats on the frontpage on CGtalk dude. Great stuff. Inspiring as usual

Just one little thing to add to Global's comments...At times, it seemed his smile was a bit "fake" or "forced". Maybe thats just me. Anyways, keep it cool

How long this render takes for the 825 (approximately) frames of the scene?

On the farm......about an hour I believe.

on the farm where the cows and chicken consumate with each other.

Cam was that really necessary?

indeed it was...

Hey ivan..

i'm back, bitches!

Just saw this video and I must say you have improved, A LOT, since I last talked to you, you are very talented, keep it up.

i'm glad I'm back into the scene , I missed it!