Gerry Posted November 30, 2010 Share Posted November 30, 2010 Here's the animatic for our Holiday animation. It's pretty rough but cobbled together mainly to get the timing to match the music. This year we actually commissioned original music!!! so we don't have to sneak around and be "careful" of who we show it to. I've already posted the animatic on YouTube and will be posting WIP renders. The actual gingerbread house was modeled and rigged by Holmes and he did a great job on it. It'll be fun to get it moving! the closing shot of the dancing company logo will be done by my cohort, Randy, so what's in the animatic is just a placeholder. I'm sure he'll do something terrific. EDIT:: THIS IS A NEWLY UPLOADED FILE WITH STEEEREO SOUND. 2010Animatic_h264.mov Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hash Fellow robcat2075 Posted November 30, 2010 Hash Fellow Share Posted November 30, 2010 That looks good. Did you have to "pitch" this to someone? Is the animatic the pitch? Do they "get it" right away or do you have to fill in details? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gerry Posted November 30, 2010 Author Share Posted November 30, 2010 Thanks Robert. We have been so slammed with work I just kind of walked my boss through it with a pencil sketch even before I did the storyboards and she just let me run with it. In the past I've storyboarded and pitched three concepts and we would kick it back and forth. But there was no time this year! she hasn't seen the storyboards, the animatic or even heard the music. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HomeSlice Posted November 30, 2010 Share Posted November 30, 2010 Awww man, I was hoping to hear the music. Syncopated Christmas music written by a couple of Jamaicans sounds *really* interesting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gerry Posted November 30, 2010 Author Share Posted November 30, 2010 D'ohh! it uploaded without the music! Very sorry gents. I'll re-upload. Sorry. Okay, new file in the first post with music. It's not reggae, Holmes, but it's a toe-tapper! I think it's the music that will make folks watch this more than once. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gerry Posted December 19, 2010 Author Share Posted December 19, 2010 Sorry I have been unable to post any progress reports but this year's animation was done on the fly and there are some rough patches that I pretty much have to live with. I'm sorely tempted to go back to this after the holidays and get it right but you know how that goes! Happy Holidays and Merry Christmas! Final_quality_render_h264.mov Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NancyGormezano Posted December 19, 2010 Share Posted December 19, 2010 WOW! fabulous! love it - the best yet! Happy, Happy & Merry, Merry to you too! (especially love the icing progressively appearing on the roof - wonderful ! - how did you? Holmes? do that?) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gerry Posted December 19, 2010 Author Share Posted December 19, 2010 Thanks Nancy! The wizardry is all Holmes, I just set the keyframes! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hash Fellow robcat2075 Posted December 19, 2010 Hash Fellow Share Posted December 19, 2010 Wonderful piece! Glad you got that finally going. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheSpleen Posted December 19, 2010 Share Posted December 19, 2010 I absolutely loved that! Incredibly entertaining! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thejobe Posted December 20, 2010 Share Posted December 20, 2010 man that must have been a lot of work... good job! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admin Rodney Posted December 20, 2010 Admin Share Posted December 20, 2010 Outstanding work Gerry! My daughter who happened to hear the music and became curious is also very impressed! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
itsjustme Posted December 20, 2010 Share Posted December 20, 2010 Great stuff, Gerry! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Forwood Posted December 20, 2010 Share Posted December 20, 2010 Well done, Gerry! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gerry Posted December 20, 2010 Author Share Posted December 20, 2010 Thanks everyone. Here's the official presentation on the company website: http://www.visualexllc.com/vlexholiday2010...010Holiday.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HomeSlice Posted December 20, 2010 Share Posted December 20, 2010 WOW! fabulous! love it - the best yet! Happy, Happy & Merry, Merry to you too! (especially love the icing progressively appearing on the roof - wonderful ! - how did you? Holmes? do that?) I'm getting ready to go out of town, so I don't have a lot of time to write a description, but the candy cane I've attached uses the same principle. If you examine the pose, you'll see that I used Hold interpolation. You can also use Spline or Zero Slope, but it is a lot more work. candy_cane.zip Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NancyGormezano Posted December 21, 2010 Share Posted December 21, 2010 Ah yes...clever - that works wonderfully, thanks for the project Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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