Ant Attack!

3D animation of an ant exploring a kitchen with background music from Adriana Calcanhotto's "Formiga Bossa Nova".

Animation done in Autodesk Maya by Gustavo Maçães & Waldir Pimenta Lima

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• ant
• animation
• 3d
• maya
• formiga
• animação
• ecgm
• estg
• ipvc
• k0d3r2
• movie
• short
• film
• vodka
• kitchen
• fall
• bossa
• nova
• adriana

[ChristoffGp4gP]

Nice animation, more interesting than mine :p Although the texture on the floor seems rather blurry on the close up shots of the ant and the edges of the marble and wood could use rounding off a bit, they look too sharp to me. How did you get the wobbly effect when the ant got drunk? Oh and another problem I noticed is when the scene wobbles, look at the reflection of the window, it flashes different colours, I'm guessing it shouldn't? Love the ending *slip* "ARGH!" lol

[waldyrious]

We did have some problems with the textures, due to the realistic size of both the ant and the kitchen... to make the objects look good from the ant's perspective, we'd have to use HUGE images... Rounding edges would be a good idea, but animating the ant took us way more time than we expected...

[waldyrious]

The wobbly effect was done in post-production, in Adobe Premiere =D.

Oh, and yea, the flashing window reflection, that's a render bug, dont ask me what caused it, lol! Maya sometimes acts up, you know ;)

[ricardoolimaraujo]

mto bem ... a musica foi muito bem escolhida! ;)

e a votka rullou hehehehe !

[waldyrious]

hum, ya, thanks pela sugestão da musica :D

[mac5565]

i like the flashing window, its coool

[jcsp2008]

LINDO!!! Na minha opinião, a melhor animação que fizeste ke teja online até agora.

[fromedmond]

Loved it, especially the nice bossa nova. I'm a novice at animation, but if you get some time look at them and tell me what you think.

[waldyrious]

thanks! nem queiras saber quanto tempo (e trabalho, e dores de cabeça...) demorámos a fazer estes 3 minutos de animação! Depois disto, nunca mais vou criticar pormenores em Shreks e afins :P