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".

Frozen - Trailer


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":