Symbolic Posted May 13, 2007 Share Posted May 13, 2007 (edited) Hi, We have made a short as part of our second term group project. The tools are Houdini and Shake. "Set Extension", "Particles", "Effects Animation" and "Character Animation" are the main tasks. Link fixed: (sorry) Burger Dreams Edited May 14, 2007 by Symbolic Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rdg Posted May 14, 2007 Share Posted May 14, 2007 Burger Dreams The link seems to be broken? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pbowmar Posted May 14, 2007 Share Posted May 14, 2007 Very cool! I especially liked the appearance of the crowd at the end. What school is this? Cheers, Peter B Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Visual Cortex Lab Posted May 14, 2007 Share Posted May 14, 2007 yeah really cool indeed... I like the flies animation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Symbolic Posted May 14, 2007 Author Share Posted May 14, 2007 Thanks! This is NCCA at Bournemouth University, MA Digital Effects. The link is very strange. It works sometimes... and it does not work other times... I will try to fix it. I am really sorry about this.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LEO-oo- Posted May 14, 2007 Share Posted May 14, 2007 I like the part, when the fly appear! Good job! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Symbolic Posted May 14, 2007 Author Share Posted May 14, 2007 Hi Everybody, Here are some technical breakdowns related to the swarm behaviour. Most of the stuff was done with the help of the odforce community. Thanks to everybody. The initial posts are: "Swarm Like Behavior!, How should I approach the POPs." http://forums.odforce.net/index.php?showtopic=5030 "Instancing To Particles, With The Instance Being Animated?, animated objects and instancing" http://forums.odforce.net/index.php?showtopic=4996 "Need Help For A Flocking System., Particles and Instancing" http://forums.odforce.net/index.php?showtopic=5010 "Reading The Velocity Of The Particles" http://forums.odforce.net/index.php?showtopic=5011 "Proper Orientation For Copying Something On A Pop System." http://forums.odforce.net/index.php?showtopic=5024 // RGB attribute based bug behaviour: swarm2_rgb_result.mov Thanks to Phil Spicer. He helped me to finalize my concept for controlling the particle's behaviour and psychology based on the colours. // The final particle system: swarm2_all_sims.mov "grasshopper" helped me to figure out a way of switching from walking to flying. Everything is here on the forum. Thanks! // The walk cycle and the fly cycle created by Erik: swarm2_walk_cycle.mov swarm2_fly_cycle.mov Different attributes used to control the speed of each fly in the swarm. Also there was a switch from walking to flying for every individual fly. Copy SOP stamping was used to control all different conditions per fly. SequenceBlend reading the velocity attribute of each particle used to create variations for each fly's speed. // The Instancing: swarm2_instanced.mov The camera track from 3D Equalizer added to the Houdini scene. // The final scene: swarm2_final.mov // The other scene: swarm1_points.mov swarm1_final.mov // Thanks to the people at NCCA, especially Phil Spicer. Special thanks to: grasshopper Thanks to: Hammy, stevenong, SYmek, Marc, Lukich, aracid, lisux and the all odforce community. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sibarrick Posted May 14, 2007 Share Posted May 14, 2007 Hi,We have made a short as part of our second term group project. The tools are Houdini and Shake. "Set Extension", "Particles", "Effects Animation" and "Character Animation" are the main tasks. Burger Dreams Does this use some weird codec I can't get it to play.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grasshopper Posted May 14, 2007 Share Posted May 14, 2007 For me all of the breakdown links work but not the link to the completed short. Anyway, the bits I can see look great. Well done to you and the other animators who worked on this. The fly model and walk/fly cycles work really well. It looks like you solved the problems you had with getting the walk cycle animation to correctly update to the speed of the flies and to correctly time the transition to the flying stage. If you are feeling sufficiently generous it would be great to see your final hip file to see how you solved those problems. john Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Symbolic Posted May 14, 2007 Author Share Posted May 14, 2007 (edited) Does this use some weird codec I can't get it to play.... I am very sorry. We tried to keep it small. It seems like there was a problem. I have updated the link in the first post. So it is: http://www.eriklouistvedt.com/Burger_Dreams.mov Hope this one works. Edited May 14, 2007 by Symbolic Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rafal123 Posted May 14, 2007 Share Posted May 14, 2007 Does this use some weird codec I can't get it to play.... yea, the same here Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Symbolic Posted May 14, 2007 Author Share Posted May 14, 2007 For me all of the breakdown links work but not the link to the completed short. Anyway, the bits I can see look great. Well done to you and the other animators who worked on this. The fly model and walk/fly cycles work really well. It looks like you solved the problems you had with getting the walk cycle animation to correctly update to the speed of the flies and to correctly time the transition to the flying stage. If you are feeling sufficiently generous it would be great to see your final hip file to see how you solved those problems. john Thanks. It was all with your help. I will try to post the file as soon as possible. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cellchuk Posted May 14, 2007 Share Posted May 14, 2007 (edited) Hello Everyone, these are the breakdowns of some other shots. [ Set Extension - Character Animation - Color Correction - Keying - Rotoscoping ... ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- shot09.mov shot15.mov shot18.mov Edited May 14, 2007 by cellchuk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
altbighead Posted May 14, 2007 Share Posted May 14, 2007 great works! Those cg bees are awesome. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rdg Posted May 15, 2007 Share Posted May 15, 2007 great works!Those cg bees are awesome. congrats! really nice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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