Philippe Patenaude- Character Animation Reel 2011

[MegaZoinks]

Hi , the biped animations are great, are you using motion capture or keyframing? if keyframing, you know of any good tutorials that i could look up?

[PatenaudePhilippe]

@MegaZoinks Everything is keyframed... I dont really know good tutorial exept the ones on Digital Tutors, it cost 45$ per month but its worth it

[MegaZoinks]

@PatenaudePhilippe ok thanks, great job

[Kinevision1]

Awesome job, I can really feel the weight! Need to see more of your stuff...

[4dRabbit]

What program do you use?

[PatenaudePhilippe]

@4dRabbit 3ds Max and Maya

[4dRabbit]

@PatenaudePhilippe is it expensive?

[PatenaudePhilippe]

@4dRabbit Yeah it's around 3000$ something like that. But I think if you are a student you can have it for free for 3 years. And there is an other software called Blender. It's free and to be honest it's a pretty solid software you can achieved really really good stuff with it.

[4dRabbit]

@PatenaudePhilippe Lol i'm commenting a lot on this, anyway- do you think you could send me the models? I have no idea how to get any myself. I tried looking up tuts but I couldn't find any. Thanks. :D

[HyperDuckMusic]

Wow, I'm really blown away, consider me subscribed, can't say I use my own channel much but you've put yours to very good use. Great watching. If you every need a musician/sound designer I'll throw you some examples! Really amazing stuff, would love to collaborate with incredible talent like yourself one day.

[PatenaudePhilippe]

@HyperDuckMusic Wow thank you dude I'll keep that in mind

[motjokkk]

random dance 1:05

[PatenaudePhilippe]

@motjokkk Hahaha random but girls love it ;p

[NiVofHiR]

Bravo! Bravo! 

[PatenaudePhilippe]

@NiVofHiR Thanks mate

[StrayPyramid]

It all looks brilliant. The effort you put into facial expressions and facial emotions was well done.

[PatenaudePhilippe]

@StrayPyramid Thanks a lot

[Tyrant372]

So where do you work?

[PatenaudePhilippe]

@Tyrant372 Right now I'm working at Funcom

[bungieanimator]

I love the use of parkour. Great animations.

[PatenaudePhilippe]

@bungieanimator Thanks pal 

[MACA5982]

VERY well done! I am trying to learn Maya 2011 in my spare time and I hope that I can get as good as you some day.

[PatenaudePhilippe]

@MACA5982 Wow thank you for the compliment.. yeah sure learn Maya from my point of view it's the best software to animate and they is a LOT of cool free rigs on the web

[smartacious]

how do you make the cube dude at 0:35

[PatenaudePhilippe]

@smartacious I did not make it.. It's called a Biped from 3ds max. It's a kind of ready to animate rig for people who don't know how to rig

[smartacious]

@PatenaudePhilippe will it work on blender?

[smartacious]

@smartacious i want to use for parkour sort of stuff and ty by the way.great vieo

[PatenaudePhilippe]

@smartacious I don't think so the Biped is a part of Character Studio on 3ds max.. But Good custom rigs are way better than Biped

[musicpolygon]

do you model with nurbs or just editable poly?

[PatenaudePhilippe]

@musicpolygon Did not do the model I just animated it. But the fat guy it's my good buddy sampad01 who made it you should ask him.

[zloiser]

great work!

[PatenaudePhilippe]

@zloiser That's nice of you thanks

[VEGETADTX]

AMAZING WORK!

[PatenaudePhilippe]

@VEGETADTX Hey thanks

[pogs347]

BEOWOLF!!! :D

[PatenaudePhilippe]

@pogs347 Hell yeah man one of the best CG movie ever made

[pogs347]

I like the Big guy! :D

[PatenaudePhilippe]

@pogs347 Yeah sampad01 did it ... its a good rig

[pogs347]

@PatenaudePhilippe Nice! What software did you use..?! I l like the first part! (BEOWULF) LOL

[PatenaudePhilippe]

@pogs347 Ive used Maya and 3ds max

[pogs347]

@PatenaudePhilippe Pwh.. Nice Software..! :D

[MrEmperor3]

awesome work

[PatenaudePhilippe]

@MrEmperor3 Thanks

[ClaireGoGoGo]

awesome work, smooth animation :)

[PatenaudePhilippe]

@ClaireGoGoGo Thank you

[NiiMoney]

did u key frame them?? or id it mo cap

[PatenaudePhilippe]

@NiiMoney Everything is keyframed no mocap stuff

[NiiMoney]

@PatenaudePhilippe woooow...seriously.??...man..u are good...thats even an understatement...i tried keyframing once..n um..i gave up..by the way im self taught...

[IAmSmerf]

First off I want to say that you have talent. Second, I'm currently attending Full Sail University so I can get my Bachelor's in computer animation. Hopefully some day soon I'll post up my animations on Youtube. Would like some feedback on it. Thanks for the upload.

[PatenaudePhilippe]

@IAmSmerf Thank you very much ... yeah I cant wait to see your animations Ive never been to Full Sail Ive heard its good but really expensive

[sampad01]

hey that fat man is my character! its my bigfatstrong rig from creativecrash! haha.. great animation though.

[PatenaudePhilippe]

@sampad01 Wow really?? That rig was really fun to animate. Thank you very much

[sampad01]

@PatenaudePhilippe Ya, you are welcome. I love the tire lifting animation. Shows so much weight and motion. Like the other clips as well. How long have you been animating in max? did you learn at an animation school?

[PatenaudePhilippe]

@sampad01 Well I've been animating for the last 3 years. I did a Bachelor degree in 3d creation but after that I've only focused on animation. But right now I want to learn how to make my own rigs I've heard that Digital Tutors got some cool stuff. What about you how long have you been rigging?

[sampad01]

@PatenaudePhilippe I am very new to rigging. The rig you see in my demo reel is the 3rd rig I ever dd. This fatman was my second rig. The first one was in Maya and didn't work out very well. Ya digital tutors got some cool stuff on rigging in Max. But go for CG Academy 4 dvd set on rigging. Even if its old, its done by Paul Neiie the great rigger and founder of pen production studio.

[PatenaudePhilippe]

@sampad01 All right I'll keep that in mind hey man don't give up your rigs are really user friendly you should apply to some video games company

[sampad01]

@PatenaudePhilippe Really? You think so? Thanks! I do freelance for indie games from home if I find one online. I am a full time freelancer by the way. But I will keep your words in mind. I will make a better demo reel with lots of animation and rigging. Thanks for the inspiration!

[PatenaudePhilippe]

@sampad01 You're welcome ... Remember do all kinds of rigs. Like Humain, creatures, animals even vehicule. You want to show to company that you can be versatile so you can work on every type of projects.

[Amitkuliyal]

good show reel...

[PatenaudePhilippe]

@Amitkuliyal Thank you very much

[NiiMoney]

great

[PatenaudePhilippe]

@NiiMoney Hey thanks

[PatenaudePhilippe]

@ZygoInferior Hey thank you very much. I hope I'll see your demo one day