3D Bender Dancing

[ManservantPablo]

Is that an intentional blur or did you bork the framrate or something?

I am trying to do this with some characters.. Ive been afraid to step into character modeling and rigging because its so complicated, but.. yeah - inspiration here :)

[underlinedbluetext]

i'm back baby!

[karadanianoI]

how do you set the cell shading in mental ray?

[IrvingHand]

Everyone knows Bender likes folk music... Spluh! 

[thebigboss1212]

How did you animate the eyes?

[Show621]

@thebigboss1212 the same as you would any other character. There's lots of books out there that can explain that better than me. Or do you mean how did I rig them?

[thebigboss1212]

@Show621

I thought it would be different since he haves no eyelids...

[Show621]

@thebigboss1212 he has eye lids, I just had to rig them differently so they would always face the camera (otherwise angry eyes might look confused if we looked at them from a different angle), but once I did I could animates the emotions in his lids and his blinks like any normal character

[rocklobter]

cell shading?

[FrostbitexP]

@rocklobter

I would believe so.

[Show621]

@rocklobter yeah, in mental ray.

[rocklobter]

@Show621 nice looks sweet.

[Guviveiro]

hahahahaha very funy funy funy

[TushTushTush]

Great. The move are too linear and lack some tense tho.

[LucarFox]

You must be blind to think this is 2D... seriously look a little closer.

But this is a really good animation! Guess its the stencil buffering..

[Sandline99]

Very impressive

[alexpowerup]

But he is dancing Hare Hare Yukai Ö

[300ilikepie]

DO THE BENDER!DO THE BENDER!DO THE BENDER!

[4n3v3r1]

you should do the next movie of futurama...

[FairdaleGoonie]

that was so cool

[UsernameRogen1978]

Fantastic!!

[preiselbaer93]

nice work !

do you still have the model? if so, could you send it to me? (:

[Jonascience2]

WOW!!! COOL!

[WillyOrWontHee]

Did you use cell shading?

[Hackin32]

Marvelously smooth! Nice.

[Woloviny]

awesome :)))) 5/5 friend.. i make model of bender.. but i cannot animate it

[woododruid]

nice! =)

[FrusTianteK]

very good 3d animation!

[welshwilderbeast]

i love it will you be posting more tv animation related vids

[AledLlyr]

Daniel, use a queston mark, i cant stand it when people do that!!

[welshwilderbeast]

Aled go fucka a donkey i cant stand it when people besides me dont do that!!

[AledLlyr]

I don't follow

[welshwilderbeast]

neither do I

[GoaGreena]

nice. Randomness rules!

[WarezRUs]

LOL OMNG GFDSXYH

[jbauer2001]

it should be longer great 5/5

[seetherlee]

How do you apply a toon shader with Mental Ray? And also.. Where can i get V-ray? Whats the difference between V-Ray and Mental Ray?

Sorry for the annoying questions lol.

[Xuco]

Very awesome model and shading. The animation felt a little reserved though. He didn't move much at all in the beginning. Keep working at it though. Again, very awesome model

[masterpiraka]

Wow....

This is the only Bender model I've ever seen (besides the one in the show) that doesn't completely SUCK!

Badass.

[webdaddyro]

HA!

[BOBMAN1980]

Great song. Good anim. . .but it doesn't seem to really catch the pace until the very end.

Still, good job.

[FroggerDL]

bender is the shit

[Tomez92]

Nice animation! Did you use ink 'n paint material???

[Show621]

no, but I have on other projects. This one was using Mental ray's toon shader (I'm not sure of what it's called off hand). I've done a bit of experimenting and probably had the best luck with v-ray's toon shader.

[Tomez92]

Okay! Thanks for the tip! Cause i'm working on a little animation myself in wich i try to combine real-looking enviroment with some cartoonisch objects, and i wasn't that satisfied with the ink 'n paint maps :P

[kudaman143]

boooooooooooooooo!

[SpankyH4m]

Now do one of Leela riding Fry in bed!

[sykochikn136]

yea! lol

[HackTheHack]

i expected from bender something more....

but the animation is done very cool...

[Scorpio52518]

HAHA!! I love it, GOOD JOB!!!!!!

[AnimationGeek12]

Fantastic job. It looks just like Bender.

[metalJBC]

cool nice job ;)

[ginnyrocks1234]

cool

[MikePortnoyz]

lulz

[ginnyrocks1234]

poor bender

[Yabuturtle]

Hey, did Bender lose a bet? Cuz he looks pretty pissed when he's dancing. lol Very very nice Bender you made. It's MUCH better than the other Bender's out there. This one actually looks like it's from the show.

[error204]

hahahaahahaah xD

[lancerevo1994]

Bender looks so pissed while he's dancing! Excellent!

[JakFan13]

@lancerevo1994 He must have a magnet on him

[glenarth]

bender rodriguez is my fave char in futurama

i know u dont care but who cares his lines were full of win

[force1of3nature]

i love that bender

[musicalbagels777]

omg thats amazing what program did u use?!!!!

[DrClay999]

he looks so sad

[BanditProductions92]

that is the definition of awesome right there!

:D

[tomasart]

funny

[PuppyPricess]

haha

[Tinak00777]

make another one! ^_^

[BravoTropicalJuice]

cute

[RomanianUser]

bite my shiny metal ass !

[Jocke337]

This is 2d... fail

[Show621]

haha, are you seriously that convinced? I definitely created this from scratch in 3D. I wish I could get my 2D animations this clean.

[PhotoShopChannel]

@Jocke337 Idiot

[ArsonistInUrFirewall]

@Jocke337 How is it 2d? it is most definitely a 3d animation, if you mean two d in the sense of your computer screen displays it in 2d that is correct.

[wolfLink1234]

i don't get how its 3D...

[Show621]

good, that's what I was going for :) often times in Futurama they'll use 3D models, for example, watch the end of the second episode, This Series Has Landed. Bender, the ship and the lunar lander were all 3D.

[xaviCOBAIN1]

@wolfLink1234 hahaha

[wolfLink1234]

@xaviCOBAIN1 yes, haha, yes lets all laugh at something i said 3 years ago *sarcasm*

People change

[solusnoir]

haha.. I just love how bender looks so painfully unhappy dancing.

man this looks so hard >.> I'm gonna bug you so much next semester you'll hate me.

[lucatodd]

bender + duke ellington....dude you rock

[metalgearfedro]

Nice! Bender is my favourite Futurama's character.

[savagehare99]

how do you do that

[insideafantasy]

bad song but still entertaining =D

[davidexgino]

this is a great work but it must be more speed:-)!!!!

[Redheadbeard]

dang nice animation looks exactly like bender

[HunterTSF]

AWESOME VIDEO IS AWESOME.

[elohel9dalton]

wow hunter...

[fonephat]

Pic: you are the foul mouthed idiot!.

[JustForYooh]

Lmao!

[talissin]

Nice job dude.

[MaNiAc93IT]

nice 3d work!! i like it!

[kubalibre77]

hey not bad, are you doing this as professional job?

[Show621]

I Wish! I do freelance work on 3d stuff between semesters, but it's not nearly as fun as this sort of stuff.

[GorilazRuleIcu888]

how u do that!? is there like a website?

[Show621]

There's many websites that I've pulled various bits of knowledge from and applied in my own way. If you're serious about learning this sort of stuff though, a good book that explains an application inside and out is well worth the money when compared to any website.

[ILIKEPIE407]

....SHort....But good!

[VanLovele]

Ansa

2008-01-18 21:09

PALERMO - Salvatore Cuffaro non si dimetterà da governatore della Sicilia. Lo ha ribadito lui stesso subito dopo aver ascoltato dalla voce del giudice Vittorio Alcamo la sentenza che lo condanna a 5 anni per favoreggiamento semplice.

Siamo veramente pietosi..

{cit. Signor Tirone}

[titemotoko]

BENDER (l)

[WSDuplex]

Excellent animation!

[ZuneThugs4Life]

junk

[katerix3]

it doesnt show benders folk song side

[animemasta7]

did u make this or find it

[Show621]

made it, I needed an up to date piece for my art school applications

[AlienMyth]

cool

[tbparty]

that was stupid and pointless and retarded i meen omg that was freaken stupid u suck!

[Show621]

I was sort of hoping you'd have some amazing video's uploaded...

sorry I don't have any anime slide shows to share.

[possiblydead]

are u freakin kidding?!!. this looks amazing, i especially liked the beginning where he walks in, with the glare. . ever try making a frame-by-frame flash?!, it took me FOUR hours for 10 seconds of crappy stick figures, so i cant image how long this took. .looks like right out of the show. . .besides, ANYTHING bender deserves at LEAst 4 stars, chump. .or chumpette

[Show621]

Thanks, I'm glad to here you think it looks right out of the show, that's what I was shooting for. I forget how long bender took, just some spare time here and there over the course of a month. 4 hours isn't bad, I'm learning traditional animation and it's already taken me 4 hours to make a ball bounce in perspective for less than 4 seconds and I've still got about two hours left :P

[TheEternalWiseman]

thanks for the dumbass video, dumbass

[thecar2nist]

nice! the only 3D bender on the site that dosnt look like crap

[HHMGCGC]

Good job

[FuturamaBender0]

Season 7 Episode 1-

Bender Goes To Jail!

[AudreyGuttman]

Great job ¡¡¡ I like it, I can not imagine how you could create the shadow

[OneWorld4us]

mmm cause´it´s a 3d animation using a toons filter.

[shadowtuy]

o/_\o

[194rednal]

O_o

[disneyrangerblue02]

As much as I love Bender, that video was kinda lame. Couldn't you try using cooler music than the kind you used in this video, like -- I don't know -- Techno-pop?

[disneyrangerblue02]

You know, on the other hand, this doesn't look too bad.

[Show621]

hah. well I'm glad you enjoyed it visually. Not a fan of Louis Armstrong though? I figured it had a classic quirk that is often found in benders interests. (folk singing, wanting to be a globetrotter, doing magic, etc...) Though techno pop would probably work as well.

[disneyrangerblue02]

Wait! THEE Louis Armstrong?! Well, why didn't you say so in the first plce?! I've been meaning to try listening to his music! Just for that, I'm taking back what I said about the music in this video! GREAT JOB!!!!

[oyessman98]

you were right on, Bender is kinda an oddball, and the music you picked is right for that. Dont worry about what the kids say, its not all about putting the most popular stuff on, who knows, somebody next will say you should have used Soulja Boy. Gosh! Anyway, great job

[shwopshwop]

"techno-pop"? for fucks sake! you have no taste..

[ZeneizeBlucerchiato]

bender è il migliore!!!!!!!!!!BENDER CHE T OFFENDER

[iaconpoint]

You are awesome! Bender rulz, I mean rules!

[Leanzo100]

this waz awesome!!! bender is da best!!!

[vengenc18]

hahaha i love bender.

[Taran692]

WOW

how long did it take you to make this?

its great!

[LOVESCANDY]

lol bender is awesome!

[skifreak438]

Best 3d Bender I've seen yet. Shading is fantastic. What programs did you use?

[Show621]

Thank you. I used 3DS Max and Mental Ray

[shinobuden]

MOOOOOAAAAAR PLZ :P

[Yunalaska1234]

I WANT MORE!!

[ms221984]

That was Awesome.  I just wish it was longer.

[HappyPalooza]

That was awesome.

[Mehbender]

Bender ROCKS

[Bumbleweather]

DUDE YOU SHOULD TOTALY like, make a longer one. This is like, as good as the 3D in the show!

[Dreamcube017]

Really nice.

lol to the music. I wasn't expecting that.

[Bumbleweather]

lol he looks a little sad. Awesome job!!

[cowlen]

Totally cool, you really should finish it. you could do a version where he does "the Robot" dance style and you could put it to a funny or cool song. (just look up some moves on YouTube). It could really be hilarious if you put some time into it. keep it up the great work!

[GoldenfrankO]

Oh man. :( Wish you were going to finish it.

[opoooooooooooooooo]

BENDER RULES!!!!!!!

[LilRachie542]

nice lol

[Kueller917]

Go Bender!!!

[randomagain101]

its very well done, maybe you have to run the jargon passed me again but how did you get it to lok so cartoon like?

[Show621]

well the outlines were mental ray's contours. as for the color I used two falloff maps- one specifies his color on the surfaces facing you. Towards his sides on the surfaces that you're viewing on a higher angle, I put a sub Falloff map that's influenced by the light source. So the surfaces facing the spot light are brighter than the rest of his body and the surfaces in the shadow are darker.

[Show621]

Also, the material itself is self illuminated so the shadow, highlight and main color are what I specified and not actually shadows. if I wanted I could make the shadows brighter and the highlights darker.

[Loyal7]

I loved it! But you really should finish it... if not at least make something similar but with a different song

[unclegav3]

i like it i like it alot p.s love

[stewy85]

Great animation, never seen someone use the toon shader before. good job

[C13Defrag]

looks nice... and i understood everything you said :P

I'm from the 3d Kingdom too Show ;)

[IO1011]

you are the man

[shpixi]

MAX, MAYA, or what,, couse is hell cool.

[Show621]

Thanks. I used 3ds Max 8. rendering was done with mental ray

[shpixi]

Can i Heve a copy of 3ds file, just for funn, PLEASE

[fraglemacmagle]

whats mental ray and how would u render?

[Show621]

mental ray is a rendering engine that comes with both max and maya. M.R.'s contour shader is pretty reliable, though I've started to favor vray 1.5 updated toon effect. As far as the colors, he's fairly self illuminated using standard max materials, then his sense of depth comes from a combination of a (perpendicular/parallel) falloff map with a (light/shadow) sub-falloff so only the edges receive highlights and shadows and it's all controlled via the diffuse properties.

[fraglemacmagle]

i have no idea what uve said

[heintzjo]

Pretty funny, good song choice.