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Published: 2009-03-10 01:24:58 +0000 UTC; Views: 2274; Favourites: 3; Downloads: 43
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3D Motion Graphix, Inc Advert 2Well, in as much as I was given some really awesome productive critique on the other commercial - thought I'd get permission to show this one.
Permission from :djeric: to upload this animation which uses his 'Free Model' which may be found here: [link]
Animated with Blender 2.48a using base settings several lights, and a lot of time rendering.
Words and Animation by Randal Lovelace
Scene from djeric designs
All rights reserved by 3D Motion Graphix, Inc. and djeric designs.
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Thank you Eric, I really enjoy working with your scene - I will hopefully have some sales from this, and send information for you to create a scene (for $$) soon
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i don't no if my subscription will be accept but the short spot is finish
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If needed I can 'invite' you
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thank siath and yes please send me invitation
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I sent to the people that run film - give them a day or two...
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Your Welcome
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The scenery is =djeric I just did the animation and text.
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well anyway
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I wasn't too distracted by text/shadow. But the dark blue text does seem to blend in with the background. A lighter shade/color would be easier to see.
I liked the trash can tipping over idea and I agree with =parallellogic about the trash can. Maybe have it tip over from a side view with the trash falling out?
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All of the blue is due to the reflect of the blue environment settings. I'll be redoing this with some different settings to see how it comes out
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Yeah =djeric did a nice job on it.
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I believe this comes across as extremely symmetric. The camera remains in the central plane for the entire shot after the trash can tips.
I'm also not entirely convinced by the falling trash bin. It seems like you had something else in mind when you put that in because the bin appears empty, yet you're referring to the trash bin falling as "trashing" your business. I think if you want to go for that type of pun, you should make it blatantly obvious what is occurring (ie lots of trash cans dumping papers/food onto the floor and then cut to the text). Also, because the separation between the trash can falling and the text is only two seconds, I didn't have the time to grasp what you were going for with the bin. I think that kind of timing would be better suited for introducing the environment (ie opening a door into the facility) rather than trying to make a fast joke.
I know it is fairly easy to think in straight lines when creating these kinds of animations, but I think you would profoundly benefit by having some of your text take non-linear paths, or appearing in a less traditional way (shimmering in [a combo between a fade and a ripple effect if you can] would be cool for the dark blue text and the light blue text). I feel the text going in and out of the walls is rather tacky because is draws attention to the fact you are working with CAD models and not in the real world where objects cannot pass through one another.
I like the fact that you've put the effort into a 3D environment, but I think you could improve it by strengthening the 3D effect, by making the windows transparent and having the view of another building across the street appear in the windows, rather than using texture maps for the window panes
I think the overhead light works to your advantage for most of this animation with the exception of the green text. In the last three seconds, I feel like my attention is being drawn away from the focus because of the movement of the shadow at the bottom of the screen.
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oh kay...
The environment is not my own it was created and used by permission, =djeric actually created that. The trash bin was separated from the model (as it was all one part) and then the tipping was created frame by frame (initially I was going to have a 'wadded up logo' hit the can causing the 'fall over' but never created the object for that as my partner was rushing me to have something to use for an example for potential clients) - Working within Blender I can have the type of movement described, how ever it tended to put the can through the floor in its motion...
The thought on the text coming in by shimmering - not sure how to do that with Blender though it would be a more convenient method, I can have it 'suddenly appear' by having in a location on one frame and 'in view' the next frame.
Text color was difficult with the environment having so many colors...
Thanks for all of your great critique ...
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~how ever it tended to put the can through the floor in its motion...
~not sure how to do that with Blender
~though it would be a more convenient method, I can have it 'suddenly appear'
This'll probably be another shimmering impossibility, but what I'm thinking would be cool:
A single horizontal line fades in, perhaps three or four frames (fades in quickly), the line expands vertically and also the bounds on the left and right of the screen approach the center -- so you have a rectangle that is growing taller and thinner... you then have a '
~Text color was difficult with the environment having so many colors... 
~Thanks for all of your great critique ...
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Many of the effects your talking about would be much easier '
The other real thing is that 450 frames of animation is not a lot of 'space' to work in when considering that for example each text instance is only showing for about 40 or fewer frames, so any effect used to 'create' text and then again 'disperse' the text would have to be within those few frames, giving even less 'read' time... it's something that I'll have to work out in future versions, as I do have some tricks up my sleeves... Blender in general can be limiting, though within the program there are some tricks... ie I can have those text so small that the camera would not perceive them - then bring them to size within a few frames for reading, and then once again make them 'go away' by scaling smaller than the cameras limits can 'see'.... though not as dramatic as a nice shimmer effect - it would look better than passing through the wall...
I actually considered a lot of methods in getting the text into and out of the shot. With this particular environment I had a few options such as I did with the last frame (having it appear 'out of shot' in a previously seen space'
Blender does have 'liquid' and 'cloth' though I've a lot more to learn about '
After this company starts making some money (and it will make some money) I'll be looking into getting C4D and 3DS Max in order to learn them and expand my overall abilities... (funny enough I'll probably still do my models in Blender and import to those programs).
I also need to know how to 'invite' someone into dAFilm - as =djeric would like to be able to upload animations...
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wowy ! that's a comment
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It was awesome though wasn't it... a good critic, which is something I wanted
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the good stuff is always rare
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Yeah, too many 'haters' and not enough 'critics'.... glad I found a critic
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yea, it makes me jealous
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Don't be
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hey I also have some animated stuff . . .
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wow . . . well, if you want, a critic on this [link] would be cool
it's a old submission, you have to download it for watching
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thanks a lot
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By the way, you know I'm always looking for animators, and I know your style is different - and that may be just what a customer may be looking for...
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yes, i read that journal - i thought "well honestly i think i could B too slow 'several days' instead of one - and my dial-up is 28.8kbps it would choke on those -
_i think i might B able to do them, but i don't want to leave 'ya hangin' by not coming through -
thanks then``~...
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You will need a faster internet connection.
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yeah, it's dial-up Or satellite
and that's all there is_``~...
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oh... well, dial up would be interesting.
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