Lonely Joe

[AniMattor]

This doesn't quite fit here, and it doesn't quite fit in WIP. I've finished the animation, but I'm still rendering--and will be for some time! The story came from a sound project I did in college a few years ago. Today I realized that it's easy to add pictures to my posts, so this is my second one of the night.

 

Comments/Crits welcome, but I can't change much at this point.

 

I've rendered in multiple passes and composited in photoshop. I'm compositing the final in after effects.

 

Cheers,

 

Matt

[Mr. Jaqe]

I can't really see anything that needs any changing. Where is this dude going? Where is he driving off to? Story, please!

[Rodney]

...and why is Joe so lonely?

[KenH]

Looks great! Can't wait to see this guy moving.

[nimblepix]

Excellent character Matt!

Looking forward to the animation.

[AniMattor]

He's on a long commute back from the city where he works on a cold lonely day...and his radio doesn't even work.

 

It'll be a while till I have it all done, but there'll be a link here for sure.

 

Thanks for the comments.

[John Bigboote]

Quite nice! A very clean style. I diggit!

[pixelmech]

Looks great, looking forward to seeing it.

[AniMattor]

I just got done with a personal record on rendering time... 79:01:54. what it took for 22 seconds. Now I ony have a little over a minute more to render!

 

Here's another shot of Joe. A closer shot from one of his more contemplative moments.

 

enjoy, and thanks for all the comments.

 

matt

[modernhorse]

Matt - That is a very expressive character. His eyes! I have no crits, except that I'd love to see him in a brighter scene.

 

Are you submitting this for the mini-movie contest perchance?

 

Doug

[pixelmech]

If you aren't - you should be! See my sig

[KenH]

Say Matt....are his eyes decals or materials? If materials, could you tell me which one you're using?

[Kamikaze]

Looking good and looking forword so seeing the animation.......did you render in tga , avi, mov...?

 

Michael

[AniMattor]

I'll answer questions in revers order.

 

michael:I'm rendering Joe and the truck interior as .tga sequence, because it takes 15 minutes per frame, and I don't want to lose anything. The backgrounds are rendered as .mov, and I composite in after effects and put in the rain at that point.

 

ken: the iris is a texture, the pupil is a modeled hole in his eye. Outside of that I have another layer that is transparent except for a very high specularity to give the highlight.

 

pixelmech: mini movie contestt? I hadn't thought of it actually. I may. I still have about a minute and 20 seconds to render, so I may not have it done in time. I only have my own machine to render on, so I can't render all the time. But I will enter if I can.

 

Doug: I'll put another render of him up if I have time. He's also the star of my contest entry for mechanical a month or two ago, if you want to see him in a different environment.

 

happy splining!

[Zaryin]

Great character. I also love the eyes. Like everyone I find them very expressive.