Envirometer

slowtiger · Post by **slowtiger** » Tue Aug 17, 2010 2:28 pm

http://www.vimeo.com/14097596 (via nofatclips)

Aside from the a tad sugary message, this short is remarkable for its 3D/2D style (can't really make out what they used), with very fluid motions and blubbery squash & stretch, and for the treatment of lines and shadows. Have a close look at these: it's a combination of coloured outlines, halos outside, and defined shadows inside, which make for a very smooth appearance.

patricia3d · Post by **patricia3d** » Tue Aug 17, 2010 3:42 pm

Great Animation I have ever seen. Great Message for Environment.
Inspring Trees and Buildings.
When Birds Die with that Big Fan, Amazing....

Great
Seen Many Times.

Post by **Víctor Paredes** » Tue Aug 17, 2010 4:09 pm

Very good animation, thank you slowtiger.
I'm almost sure the characters were made on AS, what do you think?

slowtiger · Post by **slowtiger** » Tue Aug 17, 2010 4:21 pm

It could be, but I doubt it. The studio's site lists some 3D work as well, so I suppose they use the tool they know best.

But they certainly made it look very much 2,5D - just watch the way the characters turn (you can download the QT from nofatclips to study frame by frame, http://dekku.nofatclips.com/2010/08/dan ... meter.html).

Post by **Víctor Paredes** » Tue Aug 17, 2010 5:25 pm

slowtiger wrote:It could be, but I doubt it. The studio's site lists some 3D work as well, so I suppose they use the tool they know best.

But the limited turning heads, the line widths, the secondary motion (in a very dynamics bones way) and the overall character animation looks very like AS. My bet is they use AS for the characters and other softwares for 3d and final composition.

funksmaname · Post by **funksmaname** » Tue Aug 17, 2010 10:50 pm

Very nice anim!

despite the line work looking very 2D there's a lot of very obviously 3D stuff going on, so maybe they've discovered some 3D plugin that actually does a good job of exporting 2D??
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i've just found a post from one of the animators over on cgtalk who says:
"Simply using mental ray contour lines. There really isn't any fancy thick to thin lines... simple, clean and graphical" - so it's maya

post here (although no more info than what i just posted above)
http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread. ... nvirometer

slowtiger · Post by **slowtiger** » Tue Aug 17, 2010 11:02 pm

Mental Ray - that was the hot new stuff in 1995 when we used it for the 3D sequences in "Asterix in America" ...

funksmaname · Post by **funksmaname** » Tue Aug 17, 2010 11:26 pm

i'll correct myself - i believe 3D studio MAX that uses mental ray...

http://docs.autodesk.com/3DSMAX/13/ENU/ ... =d0e364154

and more on variable width ink linkes:

http://docs.autodesk.com/3DSMAX/13/ENU/ ... =d0e364154

Tagirijus · Post by **Tagirijus** » Wed Aug 18, 2010 9:21 am

Thanks for sharing this. I liked the animation, too. The message was also great (with a funny realization).

GCharb · Post by **GCharb** » Tue Jul 19, 2011 12:46 pm

Great animation, love the style.

What makes me think it is actually 2d is that they render the characters only from the side, no turn around of any kind, which would be easy with a 3d application, but then again, might be what they we<re looking for.

Lightwave also has a very decent 2d shader.

3DSMax also has some pretty good 2d shader, cartoonreyes and illustrate comes to mind.

2ner · Post by **2ner** » Thu Jul 21, 2011 2:57 am

It's Maya 3D. A guy from the Make studio said in a comment below. Beautiful style.

GCharb · Post by **GCharb** » Thu Jul 21, 2011 3:52 am

This one was rendered with Illustrate, a plug-in for Max and Maya.

http://www.davidgould.com

I worked on some of the stuff in his gallery.

JaMike · Post by **JaMike** » Thu Jul 21, 2011 8:20 pm

GCharb wrote: http://www.davidgould.com

That Integral software he's working on sounds interesting...