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Sunday, September 29, 2013

Hyper Light Drifter Fan Animation

After seeing the Kickstarter for Hyper Light Drifter (and loving everything about it) I couldn't resist and had to animate something related to it.

This is my fan clip:


There's also a Vimeo link and the Quicktime file.

The main inspiration was this picture:


And I wanted to incorporate this set, which also has the spiders, and the little puff clouds when he runs, all seen here:


The flash speed run is also really neat, which I tried to replicate as closely as possible:


This is technically only the first half of what I wanted to do, but now I'm not sure if I will continue. As always, finding the time is tricky and I kinda like how it ends now. I started with the continuation, which you can see at the end of the last shot:


Regarding the music, the Kickstarter says that Disasterpeace will be doing the music for it so I was trying to find a track of his that would fit tempo wise. The track I chose is "Prologue" from "Rise of the Obsidian Interstellar".

Other than, the Drifter is a modified Norman, the spiders are modified Spiderbots.

Animation was all done in Maya, using one day for modding and planing and one day for animation.

I think that's about it!

[added]

Regarding the cape: it's a separate piece of geometry that I skinned to a few joints and the movement is keyframed:


The skirt is another separate piece of geometry that I wrapped deformed around the thighs.

As for a playblast, it's what you see in the above animated gif. The lamberts are set with incandescence all the way up. 

Thursday, September 26, 2013

4 Rules to Make Star Wars Great Again

Nicely done, but holy moly. Clear example that whatever is going to come out, that guy won't be happy with it. There is no way you can satisfy "everyone".

Saturday, September 21, 2013

Wonder over Yonder - Art

Animation master Jamaal Bradley posted a series of cool images on his Twitter for "Wonder over Yonder":









Mighty No. 9 Fan Animation



Mighty No. 9 Fan Animation from mechanical apple on Vimeo.

Love all the fan art from Mighty No. 9. There's still time to back the Kickstarter, if you haven't already.

Friday, September 20, 2013

Rob 'n' Ron

Awesome! Love the credits!


Rob 'n' Ron from Tumblehead on Vimeo.

Thursday, September 19, 2013

How To Overcome A Creative Block

I usually tend to look at other people's work that inspires me (at work or movies or clips online in general). There's always a great idea that makes you go "Nice! That's cool! Oh, wait! What if I do that in here? Tweak it like that? Oh, here's a new idea! Oh yeah, that works!" etc. Not very scientific, but inspiration from other other people's work helps me a lot, more so than taking a break (unless you talk to someone else about your shot). :)

Wednesday, September 18, 2013

Tuesday, September 17, 2013

Friday, September 13, 2013

Thursday, September 12, 2013

Wednesday, September 11, 2013

Awesome games

Look at his! Valiant Hearts has no gameplay footage but go to Kotaku for more screen shots.


Monday, September 9, 2013

ÚLFUR Shortfilm

Very neat! Love the music and it's great to see a little behind-the-scenes clip.



ÚLFUR Shortfilm from Ciervo Alto on Vimeo.

Úlfur Making Of from Ciervo Alto on Vimeo.

Tuesday, September 3, 2013

Sunday, September 1, 2013

Animation Article Database



Over at Monstro is a huge list of animation related articles regarding animation principles, acting, character development, demo reels, etc. etc. It's huge and well worth a look.

Thanks Anand for the tip!