Project Japan 日本 - 2D Animation Project in 3D Environment

[diggergong]

O.O

[Lu7zen]

I loved it

[KrygonTheMaster]

Holy cow that was awesome. The music really helped it out too but all in all that was fantastic. Good job!

[SkyeWelse]

@KrygonTheMaster

Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it. If I ever find the time, and get a chance to take more inspirational photographs the next time I visit Japan, I may add on to this and improve on it some. Kokia's music is wonderful indeed and this song is over 6 minutes in length, so I've only scratched the surface. : )

[ivelostmypassword]

wow...

Great video, man.

[SkyeWelse]

@ivelostmypassword

Thanks! And btw, great nickname! : 0 Good luck with that password. (laughs)

-Thomas

[ivelostmypassword]

@SkyeWelse

thx but i think it is kind of lost

(:

[lilbabi1004]

I also really love the music!

Who is it??

[lilbabi1004]

This is great, Thomas!!

You finally got around to coloring the Japanese garden scenery. :)

I really like the flower animation~ I'm curious to know how you did that!

Keep in touch and good luck!!!

[SkyeWelse]

Thanks! Glad you liked it. : ) The music is from an artist named KOKIA from her new album Kokia/Akiko - Balance.

The flower animation is a series of 2D frames that were drawn in photoshop and through a step-by-step process of coloring in little parts of the alpha channel at a time. Then as each alpha channel step is completed, it can be saved out as a frame to later be imported into Maya as an image sequence on a plane. There's a little more to it, but that's the general idea. : )

-Thomas

[SkyeWelse]

The Sakura petals were single frames, around 16 variations or so, that were assigned to locators in Maya that would be attached to animation curves. It was really nice because it achieves either a fast start or slow-down float speed depending on the type of curves you draw. : )

-Thomas