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    Gorgeous Short Film About a Bio-Robot With Endless Desire - For Water

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    Image of BullfightsOnAcid BullfightsOnAcid
    07/01/09

    In reply to Gorgeous Short Film About a Bio-Robot With Endless Desire - For Water
    Great short film! I originally saw this on KQED's Imagemakers which is a showcase of short films from around the world and about half the time the films delve into the area of SciFi and Fantasy.
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    Image of Annalee Newitz Annalee Newitz
    07/01/09

    @BullfightsOnAcid: I heard about this movie from someone who had seen it on Imagemakers.
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    Image of BullfightsOnAcid BullfightsOnAcid
    07/01/09

    @Annalee Newitz: It really is a great program. You guys should feature more of the short films they show on there. Here's a couple of other great Sci-Fi short films recently featured on Imagemakers:


    On Time by Ted Chung:





    Itsy Bitsy by David May: [vids.myspace.com]
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    Image of Naikrovek Naikrovek
    02/03/09

    In reply to Reese Witherspoon Was Bald? The Making Of Monsters Vs. Aliens
    the hair (and dynamic clothes) are added later, programmatically, which is why they don't show up in animation tests.


    the guy was walking through the mini-building set as reference for an animator. he was likely trying out different movements across many takes to see which was most "realistic" looking.


    the camera tracking is how they capture camera movements for the film. think of it as reverse motion capture; the movements of the camera are recorded, rather than the environment around it.

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    Image of Charlie Jane Anders Charlie Jane Anders
    02/03/09

    @Naikrovek: @Smeagol92055: Yeah I figured it was something like that... but I also thought it looked funny. Partly because the thought of bald Reese reminds me of Bald Britney. :)
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    Image of Smeagol92055 Smeagol92055
    02/03/09

    In reply to Reese Witherspoon Was Bald? The Making Of Monsters Vs. Aliens
    She wasn't bald; hair is complex to animate and a different team of animators adds it in later.
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    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    02/03/09

    @Smeagol92055: Ugh, speaking of complex animations, if you've played Final Fantasy X there's a summon in there, Yojimbo, that wore this giant flowy red cape that clipped all over the fucking place and pretty much looked like exploded chipped beef.
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    Image of SerafinoGill SerafinoGill
    02/03/09

    In reply to Reese Witherspoon Was Bald? The Making Of Monsters Vs. Aliens
    The character isn't necessarily bald; much of 3D animation is done without the final textures and effects, such as hair, applied. Backgrounds are typically added later, as well, which is why the city looks "small."
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    Image of goldfarb goldfarb
    02/03/09

    @SerafinoGill:

    yeah, animators don't get the final good stuff at all (except in very special, specific cases)...there isn't a computer in the world that would allow an animator to do his/her work with hair and cloth in the viewport...

    and we build very low resolution proxy geometry for things like the ground/buildings/cars/props etc...


    naked, grey, bald and low resolution is how it's done...

    it's cool that they have displays that can show true 3D, back in the day (a few years ago) we had two monitors and a crazy setup involving a wooden stand and a cheap mirror...ridiculous but it worked really well...

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    Image of Meredith Woerner Meredith Woerner
    11/11/08

    In reply to Imagination Glands And Mutated Teddies Haunt Chadam Teaser Art
    You're crazy! Chadam is amazing I'm just excited that someone isn't afraid to build a completely crazy universe that's both scary and scary pretty.
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    Image of bakana bakana
    11/11/08

    In reply to Imagination Glands And Mutated Teddies Haunt Chadam Teaser Art
    Ugly animation in a low-rent Jhonen Vas
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    Image of bakana bakana
    11/11/08

    @bakana:

    Ugly animation in a low-rent Jhonen Vasquez aesthetic + Linkin Park music? Ugh.


    Maybe this is better suited for the tweens in Hot Topic.

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    Image of Graeme McMillan Graeme McMillan
    11/11/08

    @bakana: I thought it looks more like a Tim Burton/Harry Selick kind of thing, myself, in places - I'm looking forward to it, and I'm sadly WAY too old for the tween generation.
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