jakerupert Posted October 2, 2009 Posted October 2, 2009 Hi all, Long time now, since we had a challenge .... so the idea occurred to me: Why not let`s make some minichallenge for "this time of the year"? Take or build your favourite chara-model, change him into a Santa Claus and do some very small animation with him like waving into the camera, ringing a bell, presenting some gift etc. at best include some gag and well that`s it. Should be fun and not to much work and we all would have some christmasgreetings to send to our friends and also maybe get some christmas props for everybody to use. By the way, somebody has some deer or elk, he likes to share? I would suggest a deadline of 15.12.09 so we can critic everything before the great event. What do you folks say? Quote
Eric2575 Posted October 2, 2009 Posted October 2, 2009 Let's try and get at least 5 - 10 entries. Count me in Quote
jakerupert Posted October 2, 2009 Author Posted October 2, 2009 o.k. cool I ll be on a holidayvacation to Mallorca for two weeks now, so you will get a chance to go ahead. But I will show you my Santa, when I am back. See you soon ;>) Jake Quote
Eric2575 Posted October 2, 2009 Posted October 2, 2009 Since I don't have time to do this from scratch, I'll be transforming my Bioshock look alike into Santa - bump Quote
jakerupert Posted October 19, 2009 Author Posted October 19, 2009 Well, her`s what I got so far.. Any crits welcome. Wonder how anybody else is doing? Quote
Darkwing Posted October 19, 2009 Posted October 19, 2009 for deer and stuff like that, i once took the horse model that's on the AM extras CD and manipulated that little. I don't have the model, but it's not overly difficult to do Quote
steve392 Posted October 19, 2009 Posted October 19, 2009 Heres my effort so far.Nice to see you back ,hope you had a good time Quote
Eric2575 Posted October 19, 2009 Posted October 19, 2009 What talent we've got here. These are great Geez, three side projects, one mascot project, and the Santa project. Oh, I almost forgot, then there's my "real" job. No wonder I'm not getting any sleep Quote
nino banano Posted October 27, 2009 Posted October 27, 2009 Well, her`s what I got so far.. Any crits welcome. Wonder how anybody else is doing? Hi jakerupert, your santa really looks good , thanks to invited me to this challenger, count me in ... I´m going to finish a santa I have in my library...it isn`t finished yet , so is a good time to do it...greetings Quote
Hash Fellow robcat2075 Posted October 27, 2009 Hash Fellow Posted October 27, 2009 Heres my effort so far.Nice to see you back ,hope you had a good time You can make her look 50% less zombie by not pointing her eyes straight forward. Turn the head to any other direction and then turn the eyes back to the camera. Quote
jakerupert Posted October 27, 2009 Author Posted October 27, 2009 Hi Nino, great, I am looking forward to your animation... I am making some progress in rigging my Santa with TSM2 , but ... I have a probably silliely simple to answer question. I have the right half of TSM2 rig ready with proberlyassigned bones, then I am doing the flipp but how the hell do I flipp the bones asignments then as well? Can`t possibly be, that I would have to do the left side by hand again, right? What am I overlooking here? Any help somebody please? Quote
Hash Fellow robcat2075 Posted October 27, 2009 Hash Fellow Posted October 27, 2009 but how the hell do I flipp the bones asignments then as well? Can`t possibly be, that I would have to do the left side by hand again, right? Actually that was the original plan, but Steffen Gross has a flipping plugin that will flip CP assignments. Quote
jakerupert Posted October 27, 2009 Author Posted October 27, 2009 >Actually that was the original plan, but Steffen Gross has a flipping plugin that will flip CP assignments. Cant seem to find it. Or do you mean the mirror bone plug-in? That does the TSM flipper already. Geting a bit confused now.... Quote
steve392 Posted October 27, 2009 Posted October 27, 2009 Thank's Robert I allso need to work on the hair on the hat boble thing Quote
nino banano Posted October 28, 2009 Posted October 28, 2009 Heres my effort so far.Nice to see you back ,hope you had a good time nice image TheSpleen, keep it in action Quote
nino banano Posted October 28, 2009 Posted October 28, 2009 Hi, here are some screen captures for my santa, he isn´t finished yet, has no legs, so for the next 2 months I´m going a try to finish it...greetings Quote
*A:M User* Shelton Posted October 28, 2009 *A:M User* Posted October 28, 2009 Excellent work Steve Quote
jakerupert Posted October 28, 2009 Author Posted October 28, 2009 Hi Nino, Excellent modeling! How do you plan to rig him? Quote
jakerupert Posted October 28, 2009 Author Posted October 28, 2009 >Actually that was the original plan, but Steffen Gross has a flipping plugin that will flip CP assignments. Cant seem to find it. Or do you mean the mirror bone plug-in? That does the TSM flipper already. Geting a bit confused now.... ANybody knows how to flip just asignments of cps (no weighting)? Quote
jakerupert Posted October 29, 2009 Author Posted October 29, 2009 Jipiee, I made it my first selfrigged chara with TSM2 fanbones and cogjoints ( no cp weights, no smartskin so far ) I am quite happy how it performs, even more happy that I have a workflow established now, that I can handle. (See Carolines TSM2 thread ) SantaTest281009.mov Quote
nino banano Posted October 29, 2009 Posted October 29, 2009 shelton and TheSpleen, Thanks for your polite comments Hi Nino, Excellent modeling! How do you plan to rig him? I use the eggington 2001 rig is the only rig I know how works, I got the AM v15 4 months ago, so I haven´t time to know the squetch rig so I readed good things from it and the TSM2 as well...I think is very important to know how the rig works before to use Quote
nino banano Posted October 29, 2009 Posted October 29, 2009 Jipiee, I made it my first selfrigged chara with TSM2 fanbones and cogjoints ( no cp weights, no smartskin so far ) I am quite happy how it performs, even more happy that I have a workflow established now, that I can handle. (See Carolines TSM2 thread ) looks good, congrats Quote
steve392 Posted November 3, 2009 Posted November 3, 2009 Done some work on this ,this what I got so far santa_try.mov Quote
jakerupert Posted November 4, 2009 Author Posted November 4, 2009 Hey , you got quite far already! I would stop the right hands movement a bit right before the wave. Also the left hand cuts through her breast on its way up. You use the 2008 rig on that girl, right? How did you do the lighting , with global illumination? Quote
steve392 Posted November 4, 2009 Posted November 4, 2009 Thank's I didn't notice the hand ,yea its the 208 rig and IBL set to 50% Quote
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