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Thank you! I will bear in mind your kind offer. The sound recording planned after the demo will be produced and after storyboard for whole movie will be finished.

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Task-2: Helicopter 3D model (finished)




Changes:
* assigned some materials
* doors fixed
* fuselage fixed
* IPO drivers added
* model scaled to conform size template



The model is not completely tuned, but it already could be used in animation. Other stuff could be fixed during animation process.

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No, we are not dead.

Much things prevent me to pay more attention to the project development itself, but we are still moving! Shortly, here's the things happened:

* Project got its own domain name http://morevnaproject.org/ . No design, no content yet, but just be patient.
* This weekend profusehost.net was hacked, that's why some links from zelgadis.profusehost.net wasn't accessible that time. Currently I have restored some of them, but latest entries in my in my blog (including drafts about animation techniques in synfig were erased). I not sure I could completely restore them in nearest time.
* I made a short video demonstrating IPO drivers of helicopter model in action: http://zelgadis.profusehost.net/files/m ... s-demo.ogg (4Mb)

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Task-4: Morevna's bike.


Here's the model of Morevna's bike. Some parts are missing, but it will be something like this.


Assigned to: ByeZif.

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Wow! This bike absolutely rocks! It reminds me of the bikes from the game "full throttle".

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Quite cool!

I wonder how would you integrate a 3/4 view of Morevna (2D) with the motorcycle (3D)...

-G

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Thanks. "Full throttle" gave me much inspiration to build this vehicle. It was my favourite game in childhood!


Good question! The solution depends from situation.


One of the possible ways is to render bike two times - one render with full picture and one with partially masked picture (see scheme below). To mask picture I placed a surface which "cuts" the part of bike. Then both animations imported into synfig as layers. Between them placed another vector layer, where morevna is painted and animated.

Notice, what we will need fourth layer for hand over the handle:


Other more complex ways including importing rendered synfig layers back to blender and projecting them to cutting surface with the help of UVProject.

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Task-3: Soldier's uniform (update)

Side view added.


Here's the video about drawing process: http://zelgadis.profusehost.net/files/m ... e-draw.ogg

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...or you could just rotoscope morevna so that it looks like she's on the bike - it's going to be 2D in the end, after all....

Chris

Report about our new studio:
http://morevnaproject.org/2008/06/10/working-studio/

Demo - Scene 24 preview:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-t-S_9Wyljk

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Scene 12

Genete! Here's what I have on scene 12.

Main picture:

http://www.23hq.com/MorevnaProject/phot ... 3/standard

Animatic. It cointains 16 frames in cycle:



(I don't like how his left arm moves - we'll fix it tomorrow)

What next?

Plan:

1st step.
As you can see, the draft constucted from the circles, boxes and cylindres. To make more clear presentationof motion I suggest to make draft animation of this figures in synfig. Something similar I did for the "eyes" animation:


But this stage could be skipped.

2nd step.
We are drawing all 6 keyframes in detail in GIMP. (lines/colors/shadows)

3rd step.
Final animation done in synfig based on the 6 drawn keyframes.

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You could download draft keyframe images from here:

(3 files limit killing me )

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Cool! the proposed workflow seems quite efficient to me to obtain the more accurate results.

I have two comments:

1)


That's the reason I asked for a lateral run cycle. Even in this case I see the need of a top run cycle to understand the movements of the arms and the legs. AS you can imagine the poses are opposite but symmetrical. That's the cause you don't like his left arm movement. The theoretical top and side view positions of the arms should be the same for the left than for the right ones.

2) Looking to Morevna's face I can see that there is a little "bounce effect" on her eyes contour when she returns to the frontal look. It is due to the use of smooth interpolation between two adjacent poses. You should use linear to keep the shapes in a static position (like you did with the eyeballs that are correctly moved.

Should I wait for left arm correction or can I proceed with step #1?

-G

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To say honestly, when we begun drawing this the first try was to implement it in a side view. But soon we ended up representing character with boxes, circles and cylendres - it gave us better result. Anyway, now creating a side wview wouldn't be much pain. ^_^


Yeah, thank you, I've noticed that too. But in final animation it wasn't so obvious, so I left it as is for now. Also I have a special trick with setting interpolation for hairs in animation draft.

Notice, what all vertices of hairs should have interpolation TCB except those what attached to the head directly. They should have linear interpolation. It was hard to select them every time from list and set their interpolation one by one at every keyframe. Then I created a special bline (yes, the red one) and linked all it's vertices with all vertices of hairs which should have linear interpolation. After that, if I wanted to set linear interpolation to those vertices I just needed to set linear interpolation to the whole helper bline. That was much simplier.


You could safely proceed with first three keyframes. 4th will be changed - e plan to fix it today. Maybe changes will affect frames 5th and 6th keyframes, but not sure.

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Here's the tuned run cycle, with the view from top:

Keyframes are in the attached xcf file, saved as layers:

Sorry for delay...

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