Alien Lament

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Comment by Alana on August 12, 2009 at 10:09pm

hey thats awesome :)
overlaying the avatars is not hard onto flive footage in after effects ... if you use the avatars in .mb etc (probably is other ways also) but if taken from maya with no backgrounds then the background is transparent, you can just import your footage then import the avatar sequence rendered in maya on the layer above the footage ... that will work same as the images you just showed me :)

There are tools in after effects and a process to remove backgrounds also, if you ever interested to try I can show you how to do that.

Comment by alain on August 12, 2009 at 9:38pm

"overlay the models onto it "

yes it sounds good ,

alas I havent the software to do it ,
but I had fun recently with a Thyme's avatar and some pics from my house

http://pagesperso-orange.fr/alaindumenieu/artvrml/130809.htm

Have good work , Alana

Comment by Alana on August 12, 2009 at 5:41pm

Hi Alain
Thank you for sharing below link, It has inspired me and just in time :)

I have been tossing around a script for a movie I need to make in a Video and Audio course I am enrolled in.
I been humming and stalling over live footage and lack of equipment and Actors!! Was starting to get worried! This movie was a wonderful inspiration what one can do with special effects and still keep the reality/film mode in play without a big blockbuster cast and crew … lol.
I was nearly going to bail out and use 3d models and do something clever like a real filmed background and overlay the models onto it ... but now I am going to have a go with the camera 
Thank you
Alana

Comment by alain on August 12, 2009 at 3:04am

Hello Alana , and all .

The movie is great ,
and I must admit :) that I invited Alana for MixED when I saw it :)

As said Steve , I want to watch more :)

Btw I feel funny to hear "stop motion" , because
my sons always use that word ,
and they dont knew what Mc Laren did using what is still for me "pixilation" .

"Voisins", 1953 !! below :


http://blogue.onf.ca/2009/08/03/mclaren-inspirateur-de-generations-futures/

But I will not fight for a word , Thyme :)
and ... thanx for your work , Alana ,
it is good to see how many ways we have to use 3D .

Comment by Alana on August 11, 2009 at 4:46pm

Hi Thyme
Nice to meet you :-)
Thanks for your comments and for this great article ... I love your work.
Definitely a learning experience to build model like this and could not be replaced, just learning all the tools for this type of animation is irreplaceable, as in Trax, graphs and Blends ... Treasured knowledge and not so easy to Master...but in time time yeah all will be revealed.
The machine is a very intricate vessel but sometimes there are lessons to be had outside the machine ... I did a course last semester in "Drawing with the right side of the brain" they had us copying great pencil sketch artworks with only looking at the image upside down .... amazing outcome to this every image is picture perfect when you copy it from upside down, quiet a shock when you turn it up the right way.

Its all in the moving out of the left brain symbol system which has already symbolized all that it sees and recognizes, and it quiet awesome how much this comes out in ones art.
Cheers
Alana

Comment by thyme on August 11, 2009 at 3:43pm

Hi Alana thanks for sharing with us your alien animation.
You used stop motion animation for your alien?
I like BVH (motion capture) but I think it is good to continue learning the art of creating your own original animations too.
Amongst my favorite animations are Wallace and Grommet and others by Nic Park (which use stop motion) which are not at all realistic but which are very artistic.

I came across this 3 Top Cartoon Drawing Tips For Beginners

The first tip is: "Do not start with computers"

Although I don't agree with this (which would be impossible for learning how to do computer generated art), I very much agree with the sentiments that you have to take time to develop artistic skills, even when using computers.

Comment by Alana on August 10, 2009 at 10:39pm

No Worries
Just yell if you ever feal like playing with her :)

Comment by fabricator on August 10, 2009 at 10:03pm

I have some walk animations and the like already, need more but my bvh to vrml converter is acting up at the moment.

Comment by Alana on August 10, 2009 at 8:43pm

Ill have to look into that ... what I did is I got so absorbed in my model two weeks went by when I did not look at the clock and I forgot to hand in 3 assignments!! I had just put the movement points into the animation timeline and was going to come back and do the timing after I checked it out in AE ... anyway AE woke me up! so after forgetting the time/day/week I emailed my professor freeeeking out! and he made me hand it in as it was!

Comment by Steve on August 10, 2009 at 8:20pm

If maya supports it, you can use bvh files to give proper humanoid movements as well. then it just a matter of exporting to vrml in hanim or setbyvertextransform type animation.

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