thefreshestever Posted December 29, 2010 Posted December 29, 2010 i´ve made my first female character lately ( can´t believe it took me years to finally model a woman ), and i wanted to let her sing, somehow i always wanted to model a girl and see her sing.. so i took one of my favorite minnie riperton songs and started animating. it´s just a short break from my "alive in the attic" project, which is all dark and spooky, and this one is bright and sunny... the only intention i have with this project is that it should look beautiful and light, and of course to learn stuff i didn´t know before. so far i´ve learned tons of stuff from it, i´m sure there´s more to come. i´m pretty proud of my rendertimes on this one... i´ve always had issues to make the rendertimes of well lit outdoor-scenes with grass and trees suitable for animation, but now i´m down to 6 minutes per frame in 1280x720 on my macbook, so the big 8core mac should be able to render a frame in 4 minutes or so. i´m still hoping that fake AO for mac will come soon, it surely will look better with some sort of AO... i´m using smart SSAO in aftereffects with the help of the depth-map, but that doesn´t do too much... here´s the main character, a final quality testrender, and some first anmation-tests... there are a few seconds missing in the animation-test vid, it will be filled with a shot of flowers and bees, which i already got from previous projects. i still got some issues with the hair - when the character is moving fast, i can´t get rid of the stretching... i´ve already tried to decrease the number of control-points, with no result worth mentioning. the collision-detection doesn´t work as precise as i want it to be, i´ve build an extra-dense mesh around the characters shoulder/neck/torso area like in matts tutorial, but there´s still some of the hair hanging in the shoulder as you can see sometimes ... i also have to work on the walkcycle, it doesn´t look completely right yet... also there´s some weird knee backwards-bending/popping sometimes in the chor, even though it looks fine in the action. there also will be a waterfall in the background, i will composite that one in later with trapcode particular in after effects. i hope you´ll like it.. waterfalltest.mov animtests.mov Quote
Fuchur Posted December 29, 2010 Posted December 29, 2010 Looks very very well! Keep on rocking! *Fuchur* Quote
jakerupert Posted December 29, 2010 Posted December 29, 2010 WOW! WOW! WOW! Really beautifull work and excellent splinemanship! I like your style! What is trapcode? Quote
thefreshestever Posted December 29, 2010 Author Posted December 29, 2010 WOW! WOW! WOW! Really beautifull workand excellent splinemanship! Like your style! What is trapcode? it´s a company that makes plug-ins for after-effects, premiere, and final cut too (i think)... i could make the waterfall with sprites in a:m and get almost the same efect, but it´s rendering much much faster if i do it in post. Quote
Hash Fellow robcat2075 Posted December 29, 2010 Hash Fellow Posted December 29, 2010 beautiful creature! On the walk... the arms would benefit from some slow in/slow out at their extremes. Also arm extremes tend to happen a bit after the feet extremes. Quote
largento Posted December 29, 2010 Posted December 29, 2010 Really nice! Great camera work, too! Quote
thefreshestever Posted December 29, 2010 Author Posted December 29, 2010 thanks... @ rob: yeah, it´s got to get a lot smoother... i watched some "how to do a catwalk" tutorials on youtube for the walk, but it´s kinda hard to figure out the extremes on those... thanks for the advice... Quote
thefreshestever Posted December 29, 2010 Author Posted December 29, 2010 Really nice! Great camera work, too! thanks... technocrane i love that thing... Quote
Ilidrake Posted December 29, 2010 Posted December 29, 2010 I am so jealous Just kidding. I love your style. Do you draw your on roto's? Please! You have got to gimme some tips LOL Quote
thefreshestever Posted December 29, 2010 Author Posted December 29, 2010 I am so jealous Just kidding. I love your style. Do you draw your on roto's? Please! You have got to gimme some tips LOL to be honest: i can´t really draw... that´s why i don´t draw my characters first and use rotoscopes... i just start with a spline and see where it goes from there... i really can´t give you that much advice on modeling, just start as simple as possible and then put in the splines that are really nescessary... Quote
Xtaz Posted December 29, 2010 Posted December 29, 2010 she is lovely .. great work Sebastian .... Quote
Walter Baker Posted December 29, 2010 Posted December 29, 2010 WOW Dude Wow, Great job, model is hot, camera actions great, her walk awesome. I say that because I have been trying to get walk down for 2 years now. Music great too! Great job Quote
thefreshestever Posted December 30, 2010 Author Posted December 30, 2010 thanks... here´s a testrender of the short scene with the bee and the flowers... not happy with the look of the DOF yet... Quote
HomeSlice Posted December 30, 2010 Posted December 30, 2010 Hmmmm ... a hot little mama ... birds and bees .... a bee pollinating a flower .... What's not to like? Quote
*A:M User* Shelton Posted December 30, 2010 *A:M User* Posted December 30, 2010 Very cool. I love the outdoor set and the lighting. Really everything looks great. Steve Quote
Fuchur Posted December 30, 2010 Posted December 30, 2010 thanks... here´s a testrender of the short scene with the bee and the flowers... not happy with the look of the DOF yet... Dof is done in post right? I see a blue glow-like area there. Depending on your cameramovement I would recomment to useA:Ms dof with a high multipass and since that normally takes forever to render (especially with dof) I would separate the foreground and background for that shot. May be this will solve the problem and will although get rid of the strip-like look on the blurred plants... (so I dont know that). Separating fore and background could even work better with the post dof approach since you would not have to use dof at all but you could work with a simple blur filter.... *Fuchur* Quote
Paul Forwood Posted December 30, 2010 Posted December 30, 2010 Nice work, Sebastian! She's lovely! What rig are you using? Quote
thefreshestever Posted December 30, 2010 Author Posted December 30, 2010 thanks.. i´ve got a few ideas on the DOF which i´m going to try today... let´s se how it works out. i´m using the squetch-rig, david has made it so easy to install that it´s no more effort in time than tsm2 anymore. Quote
thefreshestever Posted December 30, 2010 Author Posted December 30, 2010 little update... here´s a new testrender of the bee-scene... much better, but still some issues with the grass in the area of the bees wing etc... i will render at least the grass in the foreground seperately, so i´ll have no problems with that anymore... and a little update on the animation... just animated the bee-scene and some additional seconds... the timing when she lets the bird fly isn´t right though, got to be a bit faster... animtests.mov Quote
johnl3d Posted December 31, 2010 Posted December 31, 2010 Nice stuff wish I could figure how to model as well Quote
dblhelix Posted January 1, 2011 Posted January 1, 2011 first thing that strikes me is how well your color scheme reflects the emotion of the song. the hands, as robcat says, will make a difference. the movement of her spine/shoulders/hips is amazingly well done when seen from the front. your motion seems stylized, so not sure if more commentary matters, but there's one more area of interest, ahem, in case you feel like testing; her hips. if you'd like a sense of natural weight in her (the weightless sensation does match the song!) you can move her legs differently in relation to her hips, keeping in mind the "walking is controlled falling down", and that the weight is moved first when there is enough certainty of how/where it can land. Quote
thefreshestever Posted January 6, 2011 Author Posted January 6, 2011 thanks guys... since i always wanted to play around with the oceanrig, i´ve decided to make the set for the chorus a lakefront... here´s some 2 second test rendering of the scene (only 720x405, no dof, just 4 passes)... and a little update of the animation progress (just a few additional seconds).... i´ve still got some problems with the hair, sometimes it stretches weirdly or jitters, i might have to try using forces to get the hair in place now and there... oceanrig rocks! scene04_testing_low.mov animtests_low.mov Quote
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