Robot on my desk

[agep]

I dug up an old friend of mine, the stupid robot I made a few years ago. I've been tinkering with SynthEyes the last couple of days. Basically I recorded a video of my desk with my mobile phone and imported it into SynthEyes, did the tracking and adjustments then exported it to A:M. I see there is some jittering on the tracking, but overall I'm satisfied. The animation is just an old and crappy action I made long time ago.

 

Let me know what you think

 

johnny6.mov

 

 

Here is an small screen capture:

 

[Gerry]

Fantastic!

[3DArtZ]

well for an "old and crapy action" its pretty good!

[cronos]

wow !!! , very impressive , maybe buy it (SynthEyes) , how you making robot chain animation

[ptiversen]

I have been thinking about getting that software, but you now convinced me that I really need (want it) it. SynthEyes that is.

 

Great job agep.

[phatso]

And syntheyes costs how much?

[dougwills]

I love your work - as usual. You never seem to disappoint.

 

Great job.

 

Doug

[thebestkiller]

Great stuff!

[Bendytoons]

That looks great. The stutter in tracking is probably because your phone couldn't keep up a regular frame rate. I've found that using a miniDV camcorder and then capturing the footage gives the best results because the frame rate is rock solid.

 

And syntheyes costs how much?

about $400 bucks last I checked, a steal when you consider that competing (though not competitive to my mind) products go as high as 20K.

[jzawacki]

And syntheyes costs how much?

 

$400 according to http://www.ssontech.com/

[NancyGormezano]

old & crappy? I'm old & crappy.

 

That was great.

 

Nice breakdown as well - very clear

 

I hate you....I mean that in a good way, of course.

[agep]

Thanks guys!

wow !!! , very impressive , maybe buy it (SynthEyes) , how you making robot chain animation

If I remember correctly, I used the same principle as explained in this thread for the belts

 

That looks great. The stutter in tracking is probably because your phone couldn't keep up a regular frame rate. I've found that using a miniDV camcorder and then capturing the footage gives the best results because the frame rate is rock solid.

I did export the recording to 25fps before I ran the tracking, not sure if that made it better though

[Jentham2000]

Excellent!!

[nimblepix]

My word, that is so very, very good.

It'll be sent to some friends in the next few minutes!

[johnl3d]

I agree with Nancy

[pitbull]

one word wow!

[robcat2075]

Hey, that looks very convincing!

[agep]

Thanks guys!

[animas3D]

Stian,

 

You are a very talented artist. Just out of curiosity, do you have a day job or are you a student? Or do you strictly devote your time to your own 3D work?

 

Joe.