alrighty...

first of all, thanks to everyone who's posted here and given me feedback. It's really helped and encouraged me to keep working on it.

Unfortunately, I have to spend this next week modeling 24-7 for an animation that I've been helping create. If it makes it, it'll be shown on tv, which would be awesome. I'm not stopping work on this robot, just posponing it a week.

I have some ideas for texturing AND a (I think) cool idea for a location. I'll post them here as soon as I get working on them.

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gree gree.

Good luck on your TV spot!

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yay, wish I were that talented... Hope your animation makes it.

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thanks for your support guys.

I got a bit of time to work on some new stuff.

Here's the environment for the animation. Please note, this is NOT even close to being the finished model. Chances are I won't use any of the model as the final, but I wanted to make a low-poly one just to see how it would look. I did some photoshop stuff with it so you can get the general idea. Basically it'll be a big sphere, which the robot will drive around and around on, driving the residents crazy. The upper half will be day, while the lower half will be night (if that makes sense).



I'm going to need to have grass on the upper half of the globe, around the telephone poles (like I drew in). Here is a VERY rough grass test:


Comments, suggestions?

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gree gree.

That grass looks awesome

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Fantastic! I hope the dirt will look better than that in the final, though.

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yes, the dirt'll look much better in the final. In that picture I was just seeing if I could make a path in the middle of the grass, I didn't work at all on the look of the dirt. I'll hopefully post some mroe pictures soon.

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gree gree.

looks good, I thought you were using maya at first.


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[This message has been edited by Pagewizard_YKS (edited February 02, 2004).]

I don't think a moon of that size would be orbiting around that planet, I think the planet would be orbiting around that moon. Unless that's really a moon and the planet is just tiny and it rotates around that moon... In other words, I sugguest shrinking the size of that moon, or, making the planet larger.

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Thanks for the comments so far...

I'll change the size of the moon. Hopefully I can post some new, more interesting stuff soon.

I've been storyboarding as well, would you guys be interested in seeing them?

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gree gree.

Sure as hell I'd want to see them!

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Storyboards for opening sequence...nothing too spectacular.

I'm just giving you the link, cause it's a pretty big picture (~390 kb)
http://murc13.homestead.com/files/storyboards.jpg

input is always nice and good and fun and happy...

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gree gree.

You are god.

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everyone! bow down to MurcXlll
he is the almighty creater of the plentat with the WAY to large moon!!we shall call it robo-coru-stant!

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Wow just wow amazing great i liked the chrome with the dirt better than the black.

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EDIT: removed link...better animation posted below.

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gree gree.

[This message has been edited by Murc XIII (edited February 08, 2004).]

I think it'd look better if his arms were slightly bent, but it's nice nontheless.

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Thanks.

I'm actually thinking about taking that link down. I'm not really happy with the way it turned out...

I just animated something I'm much happier with, once it's done rendering (in about 2 hours) I'll upload it for you guys.

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gree gree.

mkay...certainly not amazing, but a small animation I threw together. I'm going to add more to it, but you can see it so far:

EDIT: new link, updated movie:
http://murc13.homestead.com/files/Comp3small.mov

Due to bandwidth, if you watch it, I would really appreciate it if I got feedback, whether good or bad. (I know I'm no professional at animating) Not yet at least...

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gree gree.

[This message has been edited by Murc XIII (edited February 08, 2004).]

I don't often do this, but *bump*

I'd really like some feedback on the animation...

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gree gree.

Its not bad but it looks kind of unnatural. I think it is because no part of a living creature is ever completly still. For instance when his right arm gets to its position it just stops suddenly when it should slow down then move back and forth a little bit, like have the elbow rock back and forth or something. Also I think that having the whole body move side to side slightly would help it look more natural. All of this is assuming you want it to move like a person and seem alive, if you want it to be robotic it is not too bad. However just remember to have the actions overlap, for instance he shifts to the left while he rubs his forehead, not one action folling the other.

I realize that this is just an early test but I think these things will help.

Edit: Sorry I was one movie behind, The third one is much much better but still looks slightly unnatural.

[This message has been edited by jhllt67 (edited February 09, 2004).]

I like it. A lot.

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The movements overall are too slow - both the small ones and the big ones. Try to get some arcs on the arm (when he brings it up to his face and then down in front of him to look at it), and break the joints - the wrist, elbow, and shoulder shouldn't move all at once, but successively. Anticipate the suprised jump at the end by bending the knees and moving downward a little before shooting up.

Not bad at all for a first animation.

I like the second one, but when he scratches his forehead he just kind of wipes through his head, not really a scratch (Unless it was a wipe :/, but still it appears as if his hand goes into his head. )

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Very good. I like it. However, you should probably make his eyes move in addition to the entire head.

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Thanks for the comments so far!

I ran out of bandwidth yesterday, so if anyone is still interested, it should work now.

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gree gree.

mkay...It's been a long, busy week, so I didn't get much done.

I started getting grass into the scene. The grass is near finished, but the path hasn't been worked on at all yet. LOTS of detail left to add to the path and the telephone poles.



Oh, I was wondering, do you guys mind the fact that I keep posting in this thread and reviving it? Or would you rather have me start a new thread if this one is too far down?

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gree gree.

I'm too enchanted by that last picture to really know if I care that you keep posting in the same topic.

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If you start a new thread you'll get more posts.. Amazing work, but what happened to the shiney black car?

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No offense, but those electrical poles look horrible. Add some detail, so they'll be worthy of the robot and the grass.

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i say, make the dirt path half as wide as it is, zoom down a little bit, and make the camera face towards the robots face and waving hand. also, add color like brown wood to the lightposts. (you already mentioned they werent final, but just in case)

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thanks for the replies guys

I'll prolly completely re-do the telephone poles, and I might make the path a bit narrower. The camera angle is not going to be used at all in the animation, I just did it real quickly to give you a better idea of the environment.

EDIT: oh, and I forgot to say, I decided to use the chrome car. I just like it a lot better than the black...
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gree gree.

[This message has been edited by Murc XIII (edited February 14, 2004).]

I dislike how the robot and his vehicle reflect the sky so much.

yeah, I agree with you on that. I'm doing the sky for these shots differently than I'm going to do it for the final animation, so hopefully it'll look different. I'll do some tests and see how it turns out.

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gree gree.

New telephone poles...

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gree gree.

HUGE improvement. It needs a better dirt shader/texture, though. Also, maybe make the road paved in the nighttime/city scene.

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ah yes, I forgot to say...I didn't do any work yet on the path. I'll make it all pretty and stuff once I get the time.

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gree gree.

I would suggest perhaps darkening up color on the telephone poles a touch... Other than that, looks awesome, can't wait to see updates.

As for posting in this thread, I have no problem with it. It makes my day when I come online and see this back at the top.

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Changed a bit with the grass and started texturing the path. What I have right now is just a modified photograph, so I'll probably do more work on it and the bump map.



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gree gree.