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I was digging up in my various storage devices and found some stuff that I might have not shown yet, so I decided to put it up.

To start, some of you who visit DA might know about my flash animation I made a few weeks back: http://vengencemkii.deviantart.com/art/ ... n-75420372

Well think of the following as behind the scenes:

Animation Treatment Cover
http://img213.imageshack.us/img213/8081 ... vernc7.jpg

Before I could even start making the animation I needed a vision properly put onto paper. Harder than it sounds but I managed to have a clear vision for this particular project. Here is the first and ORIGINAL storyboard I made for my animation:


The final animation actually deviated only slightly from the original concept! Now, since the very beginning of the project I knew I was WAY in over my head. I only had a basic understanding of Flash and I wasn't exactly proficient at making hand drawn animations. In order to speed up productions I made the backgrounds from 3D renders and found images.
http://img174.imageshack.us/img174/9275/alley1auk9.jpg

Using rendered backgrounds helped speed up production a great deal. Before I started hand animating I wanted to get a good feeling of how the character would be moving so I made practice and reference sketches.

This is an original sketch of one of Greg's frames in the animation.


The last scene in the animation was undeniably difficult to settle on. As I was scouring my files for something I could use I found a 3D model of a mech I made and never finished long ago. I used this in the final scene:
http://img254.imageshack.us/img254/7398/namwcopyar7.png
When it all came together I got this:
http://img352.imageshack.us/img352/824/splashwipvz0.jpg



In other news I have brought Vertigo's orthographic pics I used as reference to make his head:

http://img301.imageshack.us/img301/4087 ... de2mi6.jpg

ALERT!!! ORIGINAL CONCEPT!!!:

This here is the first original concept for Greg's blue form. I quickly gave it up but hey, behind the scenes XD
http://img518.imageshack.us/img518/8418 ... e2pcn7.jpg

A back view of the final version.


This here is a concept render of my next project at school. More info on that later:


FINALLY
To end this I am putting up something special XD
This here is my latest flash project completed. Yes I know, exe looks bad but it is a flash file. That was a project requirement.

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=UJH5OGB0 -Mirror 01
http://www.mediafire.com/?bykdphamt50 -Mirror 02

This is an interactive animation. When the huge emblem appears click it. It will take you to the main menu after all the animations. In the main menu, there are text boxes but the UI bar wasn't visible. If you have a mouse wheel then no problem, just scroll down when the cursor is over the boxes to read it all. Enjoy.

Wow, a lot of neat stuff here. I can't think straight with this guy yapping in my ear right now (phone) so..

You did a good job and I can tell that you spent a lot of time on that project.

be sure to follow the instructions. Some people didn't know the emblem was the button.

Nice animation! Feels like some epic show is about to start. The last flash file was interesting, I take it this is some sort of game concept?

Anyway, I really like your stuff. I have a thing for anthro's and mechs etc.

I love those sketches, especially that storyboard.

be sure to follow the instructions. Some people didn't know the emblem was the button.

I think that should tell you something. Maybe make it more clear that the emblem was a button...

Donnie, if my GF had not all ready taken over my Desktop, that hallway could have been a contender. but my GF is just too darn cute to move off the desktop!

When I saw that hallway render (great job btw), I immediately thought of lightning. Don't ask me why. But I edited it a little....



Photoshop is fun. But I know not why it is so much darker. Maybe it is because I did not know what the heck I was doing.

Too cool. I'll have to play around with those animations a little later when I've got some time. Thanks for sharing. You're awesome man.

When I saw that hallway render (great job btw), I immediately thought of lightning. Don't ask me why. But I edited it a little....

YOu see those bright lights in the background? THOSE are the electricity from those coils XD. I had 2 rendering layers. One with the master layer with all the objects (and yes, the electricity too) and a second layer to render all of the neat shadow effects and blended over the original as a multiply mask. What happend? The Electricity got covered XD!

When I saw that hallway render (great job btw), I immediately thought of lightning. Don't ask me why. But I edited it a little....



Photoshop is fun. But I know not why it is so much darker. Maybe it is because I did not know what the heck I was doing.

You gave me inspiration



But I don't know what I'm doing either...

You gave me inspiration



But I don't know what I'm doing either...

Sweeeeeeeet



Rich::

You gave me inspiration



But I don't know what I'm doing either...

Sweeeet. Mind if I use that for my concept art?

Wow cool stuff your doing flash animation, drawing, 3-D rendering, all kinds of stuff.