Speed Animation Challenge - Week 02 - Peace

[Chrisp-3DT]

Week 02 of the Speed Animation Challenge

[shiroii]

thanx Chrisp-3DT,

ok, so this week's challenge:

In life there are always problems and things that go REALLY bad and the only thing you'd want the most at that moment, is just to get some peace, get away from it all and have no more worries.

Imagine rising back to live fully and enjoy the moments, leaving a conflict and suffering behind, escaping your "war" or personal demons and entering a state of peace

Some examples: War, soldiers fighting, explosions, the main character shoots around, and suddenly he sprouts wings, drops his rifle, and floats upward, and lands on a cloud, where birds fly around and the sun is shining. He rests and closes his eyes smiling, the sound of war replaced by an angelic chorus.

But it could also be an african child who just wants to flee away from all the misery. Or maybe this frustrated guy working in his stupid cubical who just got yelled at by the boss starts fantasizing how great it would be to dance right now, to be somewhere in a club with this cute girl dancing salsa. Or this little school boy sitting at school doing math while he looks outside and sees perfectly clear wheater with green grass and just thinks about how it would be to run out of the window and lay down in the grass.

Now think about this and make up your own thing. Obviously you can't use the above examples, becuase we made them up

Rules, guides etc.

- The time limit is Friday, the 22th of July. (maybe we'll pospone it to sat 23th, since it's quite big and we start half way of monday )
- You can use premade rigs and models. You can use your own models. you can use JUST riggs, like CAT for max.
- Maximum animation length is 40 seconds.
- Recommended screen resolution in 320x240 ( you can also try 640x480 if you have to ).
- You can post W.I.P.s but you are allowed one and only one complete entry. That link is also final, you cannot redo it and post a new one. You must also specify what you worked on and how long it took and what premade objects or rigs you used, along with a short description of your animation.
- Webspace is up to you.
- You can not use dynamics for animation. You can use them to polish things with a flow of water, maybe a glowing line of dust when a magician waves his wand, or when a character disapears, etc. You get the idea.
-Remember, it's about animation, use your time for animation, not to get the best render possible, unless you can afford it(i.e, you've finished the animation and still got 3 days )
-Try to use quicktime if possible. Quicktime allows you to scrub through the animation. This will get you better C&c and is easier to study or use as reference

Looking forward to your entries!
shiroii

[anima3d]

hmmm... Peace... why not?
good luck guys!

[Mystik]

Tanks a Lot For The Week1 I'm pretty happy of it.... For The presentation, i'm sorry i do my animation on my lunch time so 1h a day so I got 5h per week for toing my animation :S


Peace sound Good

Tks Pikmin For your points

[Freespace-3DT]

Hey all. Welcome to week 02 of the speed animation. I hope you like this subject, we tried to be original and innovative with this one... There's a lot of work into it, cause it's not just another walkcycle or animation test. It's more than that.

Mystik, no problem. As long as its rendered presentation is extra. Animation seems to be what people around here care for, so that's the main objective. I'm not sure I'll be able to join this week, because I'm in driving school since this morning, and on Thursday I'm going to sign up for college, so won't be around for two days or so. Next time.

[antzzor]

Cool subject I'll definetly try and scratch something together for ths weeks challange,
by the way I think that having a weekly speed animation challange is totally awesome!!! thanks alot

[anima3d]

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[Freespace-3DT]

antzzor: We're looking forward to your entry. Feel free to post WIPs for feedback and opinions.

anima3d: Focus on your ideea and animation. There's more time to refine your character afterwards! Looks alieny, though

[anima3d]

ive allready found a nice story for this little_alien_guy..
I ll try to do my best this week

[shiroii]

Looking forward to it Anima3D! I hope to show you guys some blocking by tommorow, just finished modeling etc

antzzor, welcome man, please post your work

[antzzor]

thanks, just got an idea ready that I'm quite happy with I'll use a character and a rig I allready have so I should have some work in progress pretty soon

[anima3d]

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[MaggieQue]

Hi, I have some questions. In this speed animation contest we can ONLY do character animation, those animation of explosion, water, particle can only be used as "decoration"?

And can I post animated gif?

[anima3d]

to MaggieQue-3DT:
i think its ok (both of ur questions) why not?
Lets see what the "Big Heads" has to say (shiroii & Freespace)

[Mystik]

i'll be using my Unique Biped hehehe