TheSpleen Posted May 7, 2009 Posted May 7, 2009 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlzEM9I9l4Y This is by no means a finished product nor intended to be in my next video. I was merely playing with the props and just trying to get some ideas. The characters may even change. Hope yall enjoy this little piece, I liked it. Gene Quote
NancyGormezano Posted May 7, 2009 Posted May 7, 2009 ....nor intended to be in my next video. I was merely playing with the props and just trying to get some ideas. The characters may even change. Ahhhh... tooo bad! That's a fun setup ... I really like the juxtaposition of characters. It's an interesting combo. Quote
TheSpleen Posted May 8, 2009 Author Posted May 8, 2009 here is another direction. Looks dark on youtube but looks great on my system. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPUhccKb9t8 Quote
TheSpleen Posted May 10, 2009 Author Posted May 10, 2009 Mouse Solo unfinished, lots of little details and atmosphere yet to go. But the mouse just was into it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BS5vdDulHPg Quote
TheSpleen Posted May 10, 2009 Author Posted May 10, 2009 That's looking good!!! Keep it up!! Thanks! adding smoke to leaking pipes now. Quote
TheSpleen Posted May 10, 2009 Author Posted May 10, 2009 For Jeetman Bruce Lee wrote: "Your strike should be felt before it is seen." Quote
Gerry Posted May 10, 2009 Posted May 10, 2009 Hey that is looking great! Great fun idea, nice animation too. Definitely lighten it up and I hope/assume you'll get the rat's tail in on the rockin'. Quote
Hash Fellow robcat2075 Posted May 10, 2009 Hash Fellow Posted May 10, 2009 Another great looking character! Quote
kwhitaker Posted May 11, 2009 Posted May 11, 2009 more ideas. [/qujust some ote] what ah rat, I really like him, put him, or her to work. cool character Quote
TheSpleen Posted May 12, 2009 Author Posted May 12, 2009 Intro title screen http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iAtwxglpGHk Trying another render now with the steam going by faster. Quote
NancyGormezano Posted May 12, 2009 Posted May 12, 2009 the steam and title & sound looks, sounds GREAT! Very effective. Quote
TheSpleen Posted May 12, 2009 Author Posted May 12, 2009 the steam and title & sound looks, sounds GREAT! Very effective. Yay! Quote
TheSpleen Posted May 13, 2009 Author Posted May 13, 2009 opening scene maybe. Needs work. Birdcrash.mov (the conversion to quicktime made it dark!) It is not that dark! Quote
NancyGormezano Posted May 13, 2009 Posted May 13, 2009 (the conversion to quicktime made it dark!) It is not that dark! Looks very promising. But yes - dark. Conversion? to QT should not make it dark. What are your rendering settings, process steps from A:M? (compression, file type, gamma, etc). Are you rendering to QT from A:M. What version QT? When you say conversion to QT - do you mean you are compressing in QT pro in order to upload to forum? Quote
MJL Posted May 13, 2009 Posted May 13, 2009 Nancy, Gene prefers to render to AVI for posting to u-tube. He sent me the AVI and I used "AVS Video Converter 6" to convert it to QT format, then sent it back to him. I don't know why but the QT vid played a little darker than the AVI for me on my computer as well. I believe Gene is experimenting with lighting as we speak. I also noted that the file size is quite different. AVI> 14.3 Megs, QT>2.04 Megs Quote
NancyGormezano Posted May 13, 2009 Posted May 13, 2009 Gene prefers to render to AVI for posting to u-tube. He sent me the AVI and I used "AVS Video Converter 6" to convert it to QT format, then sent it back to him. I don't know why but the QT vid played a little darker than the AVI for me on my computer as well. I believe Gene is experimenting with lighting as we speak. I also noted that the file size is quite different. AVI> 14.3 Megs, QT>2.04 Megs I am not familiar with AVS Video Converter - so you might examine the settings you are using with it to do the conversion/compression and experiment with those. I don't know what settings you have available. The difference in file sizes is due to the fact that the avi (which came from A:M) is probably uncompressed. Or it could have been compressed some. The smaller QT file size is because it was definitely compressed in AVS. When one does compression - which is a necessary evil - there is usually degradation in the resultant imagery. This is a fact of life. Some compression methods work better than others for different kinds of imagery, and how much the imagery changes from frame to frame. I use mpeg4 compression, others like h264 for QT. When I now think about it, it is of course possible that the compression made it darker. One has to play with the compression settings and make compromises between file size, and quality. A good way to play with different compression methods is to render from A:M uncompressed (either to a tga sequence, or QT mov, or avi) and then experiment in your compression program. I use QT pro - only because I have it and it's relatively simple. Quote
TheSpleen Posted May 15, 2009 Author Posted May 15, 2009 Reworked Rat Solo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9dlixhAQm4 Quote
TheSpleen Posted May 19, 2009 Author Posted May 19, 2009 Surprise coming soon. Same bat channel, Same Bat time. Quote
TheSpleen Posted May 19, 2009 Author Posted May 19, 2009 Rockin'! Man, your growing fast! Again I say it, Hands on will teach more than booklearning. I keep pumping videos out no matter how bad and nobody can doubt each one improves. Quantity will fix qualiity. Thank you Paul. Quote
TheSpleen Posted May 28, 2009 Author Posted May 28, 2009 I have not been idle. I just been hogging it all to myself. I think a pleasant surprise may be in store. Quote
MJL Posted June 1, 2009 Posted June 1, 2009 I'm so impressed with the improvement my co-conspirator, Mr Spleen , has been making in his modeling and animation. Here are a few images he's allowed me to show you from the video under construction. Quote
Gaijin Posted June 1, 2009 Posted June 1, 2009 For some odd reason the board isn't letting me send messages direct. Here's a little inspirational reference for your rat guitarist ... Quote
TheSpleen Posted June 1, 2009 Author Posted June 1, 2009 For some odd reason the board isn't letting me send messages direct. Here's a little inspirational reference for your rat guitarist ... cool clip! Thanks everyone! Quote
TheSpleen Posted June 1, 2009 Author Posted June 1, 2009 1/2 the video is now completed as of this morning. Quote
MJL Posted June 2, 2009 Posted June 2, 2009 The Spleenster did such a great job with my “Antique” song on his Ain’t No Way video, we decided to collaborate on another. After seeing the finished video, with a cartoon version of myself, other ways to use this guy began to present themselves to me. I felt that it would be to my advantage to have a more sophisticated model at my (our) beck and call. Neither Spleeny nor myself are any good at character modeling so I prevailed upon a friend (now a very good friend) for help. So in between changing among his various hats bringing you “The Scarecrow of Oz” (See The Credits) my friend managed to model and rig a new Avatar for me. So please allow me to introduce, due to the Skill and Talent of Holmes Bryant, my new alter –ego, to be seen soon in the upcoming “Spleen-star Production” - - Two Trains . . . . . . . . (Drum roll Please) . . . . .. THIS GUY: Quote
TheSpleen Posted June 2, 2009 Author Posted June 2, 2009 And here is the WIP http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXkA915eRSM Holmes modeling and rigging of Myron is incredible! Quote
Paul Forwood Posted June 2, 2009 Posted June 2, 2009 Wow! Lots of progress in here! A touch of "Steamboat Willie" and some Chuck Jones too! Well done to all the engineers on this train! Myron is fast becoming the most copied man in the music industry. There are two more look-alikes in Fishin'. Quote
Gaijin Posted June 2, 2009 Posted June 2, 2009 It would add a lot of "pow" if you did some detail work on the fret hand of both musicians - doing so would make it feel more like a real jam session. Here's some examples to help: Quote
TheSpleen Posted June 3, 2009 Author Posted June 3, 2009 It would add a lot of "pow" if you did some detail work on the fret hand of both musicians - doing so would make it feel more like a real jam session. Here's some examples to help: true, on the wav files peak chart for this song it is impossible to find exact timing on notes. The whole song is one big peak LOL. I will try to make it look better as I go. Good advice. Quote
Gaijin Posted June 3, 2009 Posted June 3, 2009 Ah, the joys of being a solo animator - you end up having to learn more than you could possibly want about nearly everything. Animating musicians is difficult because "finger-synching" music is the direct equivalent to lip-synching speech. Quote
TheSpleen Posted June 4, 2009 Author Posted June 4, 2009 I guess few crits from forum is a good thing. normally I get alot of them. Quote
Gerry Posted June 4, 2009 Posted June 4, 2009 Hey Spleen I don't know if this is a problem but your YouTube link from Tuesday doesn't seem to work. I can log onto YouTube, but if I click your link it just hangs, then the error message. Can I search by your user name or account over there? Quote
TheSpleen Posted June 4, 2009 Author Posted June 4, 2009 username is Spleengene youtube seems to be having problems today Quote
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