MuffinSticks? In the Fanart section??

[Æron]

I rather dislike when only one or a couple people on a forum get my references.

o/

[MuffinSticks]

Greetings thread! Now that I am finally in my second semester of 3D animation at school, I can resume working on such, and require constructive criticism and/or greatjobs. Here's one that I just did.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-R0h8zE1oE


The point of this project was to practice making fire/explosions/smoke/dust and the such, so that is why there is so much of it in this video xD

I plan on making the design for the second house better, maybe a balcony and a little garden around it or something. Also, I plan on making the chimney smoke more visible and making the path for the concrete block more realistic. I'm probably gonna add sound effects as well, but that's a whole other chapter. Apart from these, any suggestions? Ways to improve models/camera work, perhaps? I'm not sure I'm happy with all of the timing and camera movement but I'm not sure how to make it better. Suggestions are so greatly appreciated, you don't even know.

Also, I got halfway through the next cabbage patch gits comic and ran out of good ideas. It will probably be a long time, if ever, until that is completed xD

Also also, I'm pretty sure we'll be learning how to make HAIR in 3D animation after this project, so I will be improving my crappy spiderhusky that I made a long time ago.

ANYWAY. Comments?

[osprey]

Not bad, not bad at all. Texures aren't that great, but it doesn't seem like that's the main purpose of the project. I thought the animation was well done for sure.

[likeafox]

I watched it and I think you are improving. You should teach me 3D animation.

[MuffinSticks]

Thank you, thank you :3
Yeah the only good textures are the default ones, which are pretty limited. Pretty much every texture I needed (bricks, shingles, sidings, doors and windows) had to be stolen from google images xD That's why they're ugly. Maybe I should hire an artiste to draw beautiful custom textures for me.

And if you really want to start up animating, I will help however I can. It's a pretty complicated program so it would be impossible to start using it without any help, and reading guides and whatnot on the internet is a pain IMO.
Yeah and the program I use is called lightwave (9.0, I think). The software is like $100, so... it's available on the pirate bay with cracks =} cracks cracks.

So yeah. I'm pretty obsessive with getting all the camerawork perfect, so even the smallest thoughts on certain parts being too long/short or fast/slow are appreciated. Or if you don't know, that's fine too. I'd probably spend the same amount of time obsessing either way.

So YEAH. tldr: Thanks!

[MuffinSticks]

Oh hey, guess what, I'm done with it, in case anyone cares. I could add sounds and whatnot, but eh.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qi9moBYTQsI

[Gecko]

Most glorious. <3

[Liz]

I very much enjoyed that. ^^ I have no idea how much work you really put into it, but I do enjoy the camera movement and angles. Textures could be better, yes, but you had limited resources so that is forgiven. Perhaps you could learn to make textures too! That would be neat.

So what IS it about? xD

[MuffinSticks]

The real-estate circle of life! A hideous brick mansion blows up and a cute little new house falls on it. This is the kind of stuff you're reduced to when you only know how to make inanimate objects. (As opposed to people n stuff)

And thank you =D
I spent many hours contemplating the camera movement. It makes me feel like a director. It's harder than you think, making it not look awkward.