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I’m finally done with my advanced animation final. It took quite a bit of time and energy but I think I managed to do it fairly well. This is what those pesky fairies get for trying to wake up sleepy children in the middle of the night.
The modeling and animation was all done in 3DS Max and the editing was done in Adobe Aftereffects. Special thanks to my lovely wife for lending her voice to both characters in the scene and sounddogs.com for the royalty free twinkling magic noise in the background.
This is just a rigging test of a fairy I’m going to be animating. There are some issues with the way her butt behaves but since you can’t see it when the issues occur, it doesn’t really matter. It was also an assignment for my Advanced Animation class. The subject simply had to sit, come to a rest, then stand and come to a rest. I decided to add a bit of a lift off as well since I would have to be doing this for my final project anyway. I thought my fellow fantasy nuts out there might get a kick out of it. So here it is. I’ll definitely post the final project when it’s done. It should be rather humorous… but I won’t spoil it.
A little 2D animation that I did a while back. It’s really jumpy and could use some more inbetweens but I think it’s half decent. That and the tree in the background looks like it’s disintegrating.
This is what you get for taunting the little guys. I would imagine the ferret runs off with that wallet and heads straight for the closest vending machine.
I figured some people might get a kick out of this, especially ferret owners.
Here’s a little narrative animatic I did a while back. I just figured out how to show video from youtube on this thing so I figured I would give it a shot. The events in the video are based on a true story. Of course, it has been modified to fit my sense of humor.
On a side note, this little car is awesome! I paid $685 tax/title/everything. The air conditioning still doesn’t work quite right but I get by. It has ghosts in the electrical system and a few other minor quirks… but I can live with it. Especially considering the benifits:
The car is mine, I own it, I do not make payments on it. Owning your own car is pretty awesome.
The crazy little thing gets 58 MILES TO THE GALLON! Yeah, that’s right, I made it from Lubbock Tx to Tuscon AZ on one tank of gas (8 gallons). Not even the hybrids can beat that… and certainly not for $685! The downside is that it gets no horse power from it’s three banger engine. Oh well, it gets me to work anyway.
I love that car. My wife hates it though… after I moved and she had to spend almost a whole 24 hours in that tin death trap. She was even reluctant to take the reference photos for “AIR” because of the trauma of that trip.
Well, I hope everyone else’s car works at least as good as mine. Just be glad if you’ve got good air.
Type to you later,
~Nathaniel
