3D vs Video Major Assignment

[BroadleyBoy]

Nice little film, but the walk cycle lets it down.

[101blender]

Very nice! I'm quite jealous of you now. :P I'm still working on walk cycles in Blender. If I could make one suggestion if you end up super-fine-tuning it: I notice when the robot walks, his feet don't seem to stick to the base. You could fix it by having him move forward faster, and keep his legs moving at the same speed; or move his legs slower and keep his body the same speed.

Anyway, great job on the modeling, animation in general, and especially the after effects! Keep it up!!

[CoryTyGodwin]

Really cool and very inspiring! I am a film student who's been taking 3d animation courses using Maya(I love it by the way!), I'm really starting to realize all of the possibilities, incorporating all of the programs together. Wow.Next I'm learning AE for sure

[YouBeenBaked]

Amazing film. Keep up the good work.

Love your technique !

[punjabigabru13]

good work

[shameeraliclt]

cool!!

[nikiebc]

Hey another thing.......the reflection in the glass was awesome...very realistic.....did you do that in 3ds max or after effects....and how??

[micohal]

Hi, I did the reflection in Maya by creating a cylinder shape and applying a glass shader to it then had the robot walk behind the glass to create the reflection effect.. For the 'Created by Michael' that was just bad masking and running out of time, just looks like the page is moving but its really just dodgyness haha

[nikiebc]

Thanks for the help

[badisanji]

:)))))))))))))))))))

[nikiebc]

awesome, dude. Could you like make a tutorial for it, at least for the first part (the book one). If not please tell which techniques did you use. COOL IMAGINATION, DUDE

[micohal]

haha thanks, I'm far too busy atm to make a tutorial but I can quickly say that for the start of the animation I used the programs, Maya and After Effects. In maya I created a 3D pencil copied the exact real life version so all the lightning is exact then in after effects when the hand places the pencil down i masked the video pencil out frame by frame then replaced it with the 3D pencil fading that in as the video pencil disappears......

[micohal]

... For the pencil drawing of the character i used maya, first importing a still image of the drawing and making the 3d pencil trace the lines of the character i then imported that animation into after effects again where I composited it all together.. I used an animated mask to reveal the drawing as the 3d pencil animates across the page revealing the drawing effect... After effects rocks :)

[javipeyote73]

me ha encantado. 5 stars.

[carlogc]

this really awesome you are really good

[SpecialFxKid]

cool

[viktorab]

Good work!

[capperdenmark]

FAIL!!!!

[aegnt09]

awesome!

[RadovanAla3dam]

amazing

[SuperDevinci]

genius!!!

[aegnt09]

whoa nice!

[bobman13579]

Dude, I hope you got a first for that!

[souless27]

NICE

[shilpinator]

woww nice work man

[siedlikmasterek]

This is FAKE don't trust your eyes

lol xd

nice vid

[renno99]

cool :)

[renno99]

nice :)

[foxman82459]

very nice work.... I'm just now learning the basics of camera matching.. 3DS Max 9

[getownedn00b]

wow what softwear did you use? and that was awomse

[micohal]

I used Maya 8.5 for the 3d, After Effects for the compositing, and Final Cut Pro for the edit and sound :) cheers,

[Aerodynamics123]

soo good. only criticism is that the robots walking doesn't look too good - it looks as though hes floating across the surface. apart from that.. amazing!

[micohal]

yeh i know :/ first time doing 3d and compositing, i've learned from the mistakes! lol

[TwoMenMafia]

omg how do you do that

[Z3AI0T]

5/5 Awesommme :D

[13807918406]

HI could you tell me your Email?

[stokmarknes]

I really liked the details, such as the reflection in th glass. And the awesome shadows on the pencil. Very Well Done!

[pfuispinne]

good work, the shadows looks really nice. Just one thing bothered me a bit, the roboter slides to much in his walk.

[andrymanoloz]

bravo ! very nice and imaginative

[ESFilmer]

Loved it! A brilliant movie...!

By the way, what's the name of the song in the middle?

[micohal]

Thanks for the comment, I'm actually re-doing the piece again for a major project this semester for uni so keep an eye out! The song is a Linkin Park song by Mr.Hahn DJ, Session from the Meteroa Album.

[Dousch]

GOOD JOB!

[marakeshhh]

Good vid! What's the name of the song?

[Wuzzysbrand06]

It's Session by Linkin Park if you haven't found out yet :)

[kas3d]

great !

[triplej96]

Very nice which 3D app and tracker did you use?

[micohal]

Hi thanks for the comment, I used Maya 8.5 for the 3D and After effects for the compositing + tracking, took for eva ta get things ta look half decent :)

[aj322]

awesome! :)

[larsruberti]

that was awesome!

nice work there :)

[hogo09890]

great job for someone so young

congratulations

[trumpets777]

that was cool!

How did you take the video and what compression did you use on it? The video is good quality for Youtube.

[micohal]

Hi thanks for the comment i used a sony HD cam with mini dv tape to film this and to compress i used a mpeg4 codec from quicktime but boosted the kbit/sec upto like 1500 instead of the default 256!

:)

[SagInTheBag]

Very cool!