The Thief and The Fighter (animation)

Simple animation done in Animation Master. Originally, it was going to be a knife fight animation, but it became more of a martial artists animation. This is based off an old animation that I did in 2002, which dealt with a robot stealing a gold diamond and being attacked by two other robots. It was my first animation that I did in 3D Studio Max and I had fun doing that also. This one I decided to have a thief and have him fight one person this time. The animation was supposed to be a lot longer than this, but I decided to make it a short fight. I also did the score in Sony Acid Pro, Anyway, enjoy!

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[davlin2]

just came acros this one....cool work and I assume your music too.

[jweinrub]

@davlin2 yep, i used loops and mixed it along with the video.

[JayShah3D]

@jweinrub - Uh, yep, animating can be made quickly, OR, in my CASE, made in a couple months. HAHA - Simple scenes are created very fast, but, complex and huge scenes take weeks to create. However I animate today, I'm trying to get it made fast and make it look the BEST I CAN. We'll see. ;-}

[jweinrub]

@roco6699 The Heroes of Action animation is done roughly, but now I'm re-rendering scenes so I can see how it looks fully before anything else has to be changed. I agree that ready made models are a lot easier to use cause you can get to the animation a lot faster. the reason why I don't use ready made models is that they cost money to get the ones I really like, so i create my own. i like building my props and sets as well.

[jweinrub]

Yeah, manual animating by hand can take weeks, depending how much time you are investing in it. That doesn't mean it's bad cause it took me three months to do forty something seconds on the fight scene alone on the third part of The Face Off.

[roco6699]

@jweinrub I have quite a few projects underway but finding the time to get them finished is always a problem. I often build props etc but building my own characters is not my thing, I much prefer to use ready made models. Good luck with walk cycle.

[JayShah3D]

@jweinrub - YES, I will buy some pre-made fight poses at 3D sites, and tweak them for my movie. There are some PRO pose sets out in the market for just $5-10 each set. Will boost the realism of my work and the movements will look more realistic. I need the HELP - Manual animating by hand takes WEEKS! ~ haha

[jweinrub]

MOCAP is good, I can't wait to see how it's used for your animations man. pre-Setup isn't bad also.

[jweinrub]

I've used Poser before, but nothing artistic. I never got into it cause I was more into creating my own models and sets and what not. Right now, I need to make some animation corrections on my Heroes of Action short cause doing a walk cycle in a slant isn't going well and I'm going to use other measures to finish up the animation. how's your work coming along?

[JayShah3D]

Hey man! Instead of making a REMAKE of your short here, I'm going to just produce a 5-10 minute short inspired by it, The Ninja Guardians, which I'm glad you saw the posted preview of it. I will use this video + MOCAP/pre-setup martial arts moves for the characters in it. I'll animate some fight scenes by hand, but I would like my movie to look like Ninja, Ninja Gaiden + Ninja Blade! Cheers!