I've spent 18 months creating my first animated short, check it out! - General

[QUOTE=manvsbear;39874329]Because the story is well written and it has a nice cute ending, it's very easy to overlook to small errors in animation and other minor details. Plastic hair just get's on my nerves unless it's a design choice, which I don't think it was here. Overall very good, keep making more.[/QUOTE] Thanks! The hair wasn't so much a design choice as a necessary compromise. We would have loved some hair dynamics in there but we just didn't have the time.. we tried to use as few dynamics as possible really.

I like the story and visual style of it all, but the animation is pretty floaty.

[QUOTE=kapin_krunch;39874262]That was amazing, great work. I hope you get a job somewhere major in the future, it looks like you and your team deserve it.[/QUOTE] Thanks, me too! 9 months after finishing Im actually unemployed haha. I got a job offer at Axis animation (who've done the first dead island trailer, and the spartan ops videos) but I actually missed their call and never got the message until 3 weeks too late. Which was annoying. I'm still looking for work in Scotland, but soon I think I might need to head to London and make coffee for a VFX house.

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[QUOTE=Eric95;39874346]I like the story and visual style of it all, but the animation is pretty floaty.[/QUOTE] Yeah the animation is the thing I'm least happy with. But none of us are really animators, so we done the best we could. Most of my animation was on the facial expressions. The last few shots of the clones popping out, and him angrily hopping in the time machine were done by a friend of ours... I think they turned out really well. But the rest was animated by us and a handfull of people in the year below us, I wish we could have spent more time on it.

Oh wow, I remember you posting about this ages ago in the 3D thread. Good job finishing it, it looks great.

[QUOTE=Scotchair;39874328]The tophats are nothing but a nod to The Prestige (which has a similar plot) and as a bit of foreshadowing for the cloning...[/QUOTE] Ha, brilliant. I remember watching this in the 3d art thread a while back watched it again and my opinion still stands, it's incredible.

Cheers lads, it was always nice to post in that thread for feedback and advice. I'm just glad we can finally share the finished thing!

What rendering program did you use? It's amazing by the way.

[QUOTE=booster;39874419]What rendering program did you use? It's amazing by the way.[/QUOTE] We rendered it from Maya and I composited it in After Effects. Here's a comparison of a maya frame, and a composited frame. [T]http://i.imgur.com/RlatyIz.jpg[/T] [T]http://i.imgur.com/mYp1wtP.jpg[/T] Also this is the compositing flowchart for one of the disintegration shots, each of these nodes represents a layer in After Effects. [T]http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-vGjz6qijkeM/T2zg3C-OB6I/AAAAAAAAASU/71VRPOZJOrA/s1600/flowchart.jpg[/T] [editline]11th March 2013[/editline] [QUOTE=Luafox;39874424]The behind the scenes stuff on your blog and that other video you posted was pretty neat. I find stuff like that just as interesting as the final product. I recommend reading "The Animator's Survival Kit" by Richard Williams if you're not confident in your animating skills. It's a good book and might help you along the way.[/QUOTE] Yeah I let my friend borrow that book about 2 years ago and haven't seen it since, I'll need to get it back!

The animation is quite stiff/floaty a lot of the time, but the modeling and textures especially on the scenery are pretty good.

Amazing, unexpected and charming. I'm sure I remember seeing some early progress a long time ago on the forum. How long ago was it?

[QUOTE=.:FoxOnFire:.;39874506]The animation is quite stiff/floaty a lot of the time, but the modeling and textures especially on the scenery are pretty good.[/QUOTE] I agree, I really wish we had more time to learn and finesse the animation. We felt like we had to prioritise our strengths to get as good a film as possible, and sadly animation wasn't one of them. I'm hoping my next project will focus a lot more on the character animation. [editline]11th March 2013[/editline] [QUOTE=whatthe;39874513]Amazing, unexpected and charming. I'm sure I remember seeing some early progress a long time ago on the forum. How long ago was it?[/QUOTE] Could have been up to 2 years ago really! I did post a lot of the work in progress work in the creative art thread, and the general 3d art thread.

[QUOTE=manvsbear;39874329]Because the story is well written and it has a nice cute ending, it's very easy to overlook to small errors in animation and other minor details. Plastic hair just get's on my nerves unless it's a design choice, which I don't think it was here. Overall very good, keep making more.[/QUOTE] Tbh. that ending is horrible and nightmarish. Imagine hundreds of "you"s plopping into existence.

12/10 it's ok

[QUOTE=Killuah;39874706]Tbh. that ending is horrible and nightmarish. Imagine hundreds of "you"s plopping into existence.[/QUOTE] Haha yeah, when you think about it... it's pretty horrifying. He's totally fucked.

[media]http://vimeo.com/42559953[/media] tagged

No idea why I cant get tags working in the OP...

aa, don't tag it. It autoplays for me.

I have never had any problems with vimeo autoplaying.

The references I saw were the holy hand-grenade type thing on the desk and a short message on the Time Machine Schematics. I got to say, though, that I thoroughly enjoyed that. I realise that the ending's been done before (since everybody's referencing The Prestige), but thankfully you didn't go with any of the cliched endings I was anticipating.

[QUOTE=Dragonite24;39874789] tagged[/QUOTE] Don't fucking tag vimeo videos

Oh I remember talking to you about your concept art for this a looong time ago. Glad I could finally see the finished short :)

I'm currently doing my first 3D animation and this totally blew me away..

It was nice, but the guy looked so plastic-y and it irked me. Still neat nontheless

Does the character have a name?

What a great video. I enjoyed it, I applaud your team for working on it very hard. Well done!

I liked the part where the camera goes past the gramophone. Surround sound is awesome.

Loved it! Mind telling me the name of the music playing?

I remember watching this months ago when you set up a special link for us in the 3D Thread. Still, amazing job dude.