The great WIP and feedback thread.

[ZappaBappa]

Still early WIP, but plan to do the entire scene until the Hump bit.

[video=youtube;A2XPVJT5Q2c]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2XPVJT5Q2c[/video]

[kuliise]

[t]http://i.imgur.com/MFu983D.gif[/t]

Walkcycle....looks jerky still. I think it's the arms...and the legs. And the feet. And the upper body. Argh.

Feedback greatly appreciated.

[[Brn]]

[QUOTE=kuliise;43674156][t]http://i.imgur.com/MFu983D.gif[/t]

Walkcycle....looks jerky still. I think it's the arms...and the legs. And the feet. And the upper body. Argh.

Feedback greatly appreciated.[/QUOTE]

It's indeed the arms. They don't appear to have momentum. Bend the wrist when the arm is about to swing back. And also the toes and ankle!
The feet tend to point downwards when crossing and point up when landing! The best way to tackle a walkcycle.

First pose these poses, then round the stepped curves, then worry about the timing.
After the timing of the animation is correct, polish the animation

[t]http://cyberdog.wikispaces.com/file/view/WalkCycle_Side.jpg/30505746/WalkCycle_Side.jpg[/t]

[TeeRave]

[QUOTE=kuliise;43674156][t]http://i.imgur.com/MFu983D.gif[/t]

Walkcycle....looks jerky still. I think it's the arms...and the legs. And the feet. And the upper body. Argh.

Feedback greatly appreciated.[/QUOTE]
Curves, arms lack those

[caseytube]

[QUOTE='[Brn];43674808']It's indeed the arms. They don't appear to have momentum. Bend the wrist when the arm is about to swing back. And also the toes and ankle!
The feet tend to point downwards when crossing and point up when landing! The best way to tackle a walkcycle.

First pose these poses, then round the stepped curves, then worry about the timing.
After the timing of the animation is correct, polish the animation

[t]http://cyberdog.wikispaces.com/file/view/WalkCycle_Side.jpg/30505746/WalkCycle_Side.jpg[/t][/QUOTE]

Yeah one very important thing about the Animators Survival Guide walkcycle is that people always forget the most important lesson because it comes a couple pages earlier than this; Arcs.
[t]http://vis.berkeley.edu/courses/cs294-10-sp10/wiki/images/0/0e/Good_vis_aaron.jpg[/t]
[t]http://azureprostudios.com/Blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/arcs_survival_guide.jpg[/t]

[ZappaBappa]

Update for the Young Frankenstein parody Really loving the face poser... Render quality is placeholder. This was just uploaded as a WIP to show around
[video=youtube;gIrY4zet7Q8]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIrY4zet7Q8&feature=youtu.be[/video]

[ChancyWancy]

Hey everyone. Just thought I'd share something that my team did.

[video=youtube;ySlbMlwYB3c]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySlbMlwYB3c[/video]

[URL="http://www.youtube.com/user/DavidsAdventure2"]David Roldan[/URL] is the one who does the animation for the show while [URL="http://www.youtube.com/user/Chancer4ever"]I'm the cinematographer/set making/pretty-much-everything-but-animating guy[/URL], although I haven't touched this scene yet. We hope you guys will enjoy the final version when it's released!

[Jesus Crits]

[IMG]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/19211711/Posters/poster.png[/IMG]
I have no idea how to make this look better. The scene feels really empty atm, and I dunno what I can add to make it less boring.

[kuliise]

[QUOTE=Jesus Crits;43779514][IMG]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/19211711/Posters/poster.png[/IMG]
I have no idea how to make this look better. The scene feels really empty atm, and I dunno what I can add to make it less boring.[/QUOTE]

Maybe make something a focal point? Right now it doesn't look very interesting because we as the audience have no idea what we're supposed to be looking for.

[Lazzars]

[t]http://i.imgur.com/z1o0rXM.jpg[/t]

Still from something i'm working on, not quite sure on the framing though. Any thoughts?

[TheDKer]

[QUOTE=Jesus Crits;43779514][IMG]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/19211711/Posters/poster.png[/IMG]
I have no idea how to make this look better. The scene feels really empty atm, and I dunno what I can add to make it less boring.[/QUOTE]

I actually really dig the scene. Everything, the color of the light, the colors of the environment and the props/characters add to a style that works REALLY well! The thing you really need though, as kuliise also pointed out, is proper composition in your image. Check out this frame from the movie Prisoners:
[img_thumb]http://filesmelt.com/dl/Prisoners.jpg[/img_thumb]
I will admit the colors of the environment are a little more muted than yours and the atmosphere more "cold" than "cozy" as I feel yours is, but I still think the two scene are similar. (seriously, did you use that as reference?) Despite that, the scene in Prisoners works and I believe that is because of the composition.

Roger Deakins did the cinematography for Prisoners btw, and if you want to get better at cinematography or at the very least inspired, you should check out the movies he has worked on. He's amazing.

[Grub]

[QUOTE=Lazzars;43782893][t]http://i.imgur.com/z1o0rXM.jpg[/t]

Still from something i'm working on, not quite sure on the framing though. Any thoughts?[/QUOTE]

Well, okay... it's flat on, basically pointed straight ahead. If it's just for a poster, get some dynamism going. Lower the cam, take it a bit off center perhaps, basically to get the angles flying out at the camera (experiment with this); have the blu characters at different depths, put some red/orange lighting on one or both edges of the engineer, have the turret firing at an angle, maybe firing so hard it's lifting off of one leg, with its casings twisting away in the wind; put bullet puffs on the ground, blood puffs on the characters, maybe a dead body or some gibs; turn the engineer at more of an angle, too -- his waist, his chest, possibly pointed away, with his head tilted up in total domination of those below him. Give him more of an expression, too, or if not, put some subtle lighting below his head that points up at his face to make his presence more intimidating in that sense.

I'm sure there's more you could do, but those are just ideas.

[Razi The Red]

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_D5I8CjxTJ4&feature=youtu.be[/media]

Just a random thing I've decided I'm going to keep tweaking and adding to over time. Not really sure what I intend to do with it, but... eh.

[ZappaBappa]

Still got plenty to do, but this is fun as hell.

[video=youtube;2HsXNCoCMaQ]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HsXNCoCMaQ&feature=youtu.be[/video]

[magicman1234]

[video=youtube;BNPpnH5TyrY]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNPpnH5TyrY[/video]
Rebooting an old project. I made a few additions to the foreground and background and tweaked the animations just a bit.

[URL="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImwcGW8gtQc"]Previous video for comparison[/URL]

[Dromlexer]

[T]http://i.imgur.com/6XkIRmR.png[/T]

I lack some proper models, but this is a thingy for OSFM's Fantasy week.

[Noob©]

I know you guys [B][U]haaaate[/U][/B] this kind of stuff but I am still going to post it anyways.

EDIT: Deleted the video.

[chadcyr61]

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[[Brn]]

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[FiveEyes]

Decided to make a poster in some of my free time but its not 100% done yet as I need to remove the headphone from the scout hat , retexture the gloves for the scout and the scout himself.

[t]http://i.imgur.com/gLofq3t.jpg[/t]

Its turning out really well I think, but it seems to be lacking in a way. Anyone have any advice on what I can add to it?

[Doc ock rokc]

[QUOTE=FiveEyes;44167234]
[t]http://i.imgur.com/gLofq3t.jpg[/t]
[/QUOTE]

my suggstions

Move the camera a bit to the left and turn it so that the two main focuses are on the rules of thirds and the heavy and the medic are not as dominate in the shot as they are.

Move the models just a bit to match the motion blur or use the Timescale script on the stars particle to stop it in place.

Definitely remove the headset from the scout and pose the shoulders a bit they seem a bit flat on the scout.

[kuliise]

Tried my hand at skinning.

[t]http://i.imgur.com/104pF5t.jpg[/t]

[t]http://i.imgur.com/uvt5oMz.jpg[/t]

[t]http://i.imgur.com/eDyrgpQ.png[/t]

Still need to clean up parts that are messy, especially the face.

I'm sort of new to reskinning so this took me about 8 hours, using photoshop and the lasso tool...If there's a faster method, I would be very interested to know it haha.

What he looked like originally:
[t]http://i.imgur.com/jo4KUbi.jpg[/t]