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Posted on 07/07/11 9:35:42 PM |
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Emil
KAFKAsFRIEND Posts: 413 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 358: The music machine
OK, my first errrrrr animation. Yes the texture on the wheel should rotate also but I am so tired with the frames which always do what they want to do: to spoil whole work ...... 
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Posted on 08/07/11 02:22:23 AM |
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LagoDiLecco
Lombard Illuminator Posts: 41 Reply |
Re: Challenge 358: The music machine
I'm just submitting a very basic attempt, to show that I'm willing to learn!  |
Posted on 08/07/11 08:25:15 AM |
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Steve Caplin
Administrator Posts: 7052 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 358: The music machine
Just back from Austria, where I had an extremely productive week (despite missing a connection and having to spend four hours in Frankfurt airport). More details about Wacom, Photoshop, Aperture and Lightroom later! First to get moving this week was tooquilos, with a nicely animated GIF - it seems a long time since you've done one of those. Splendid Music Machine typography! And I love the way it works in the animated version - perhaps that smoke should be puffing out? A first animated GIF from PDelavigne, and it's a subtle piece of work: the twitching of the dog's tail and nose, and the blinking of the eye, brings this image neatly to life. Remember, you can vary the length of each frame when animating - it doesn't all need to be as fast as possible! And when animating the notes coming out, it would be easy to create an apparently endless stream of them rising out of the mouth of the tuba. A very enthusiastic animation from brewell, with a machine that's almost leaping for joy: it's like a highly-strung racehorse that can't wait to get going. I like this one a lot, it has a tremendous sense of being a living object. Once again, michael sinclair's passion for destruction has got the better of him: the sculpture has been dismantled and left to rot in a junkyard. I forgot your distaste for modern art, Michael! Nicely blended into the scene, though, with good colour and texture matching. In the animated version, I think we need more clues to show how the background is scrolling past: with so much detail, it's easy to miss tracking individual objects as they glide past. I like the way you've animated the tracks on the Wall-e figure - but the music machine appears to have disappeared entirely... "I can't do animation", says jimbean - ah, but you could, Jim, if you just gave it a try. Nonetheless, this is an impressive piece of work, with the sculpture given monumental status and scale. I like the flying sheet music and the notes - although a slightly more jaunty angle on some of the notes would have helped them look less rigid - and that's a good conductor, up to his knees in the water. Hope you had fun with this one. Modern art meets classical in Jota120' s entry: and they both seem to have come out of it rather badly. A really nicely worked image - and good shadows. A bizarrely animated cog in the animated version - I'm having some trouble figuring this one out! Let's put it down to a moment of overwhelming surrealism. A masterclass in movement from james: note the different kinds of motion blur on the background, the wheels and the horns; the tiled background, that repeats endlessly; and the jiggling, up-and-down motion of the machine. Very nicely achieved, James! I was very taken with Vibeke's entry, which shows a lot of skill and patience: the slight enlargement of the cog and horn with each frame gives it a good sense of moving forwards, and of course the background behind it has been perfectly patched (but watch that ground shadow). One thing that does surprise me, though, is that you didn't simply reverse the order of the frames to make the machine roll back and forth: the jump back to the start is a little distracting. Now, how could we get the teeth on that cog to roll? Very clever work from tissana, who has integrated the sculpture into an old war photograph. For the most part, this is really well achieved: I like the fact that the soldiers are both interacting with it, and the way extra elements have been created out of the cogs. But just two things: the machine is much crisper than the background - a very small amount of Gaussian Blur would help to soften it. And the dark edge on the broken horn is very distracting: take this away, and the image will look very much better. I enjoyed zombie67's take on Apple's iPod advertising - that machine certainly produces an intriguing silhouette. THe figure in the rocking chair is nicely judged, too - but perhaps needs a new head: this one is rather hard to make out. Thoughtful work from Emil, with clever use of some traditional animation tricks. The most obvious is the design on the face of the nearest cog: by revolving around like that, it gives the impression that the whole cog is turning, despite the fact that the texture is just oscillating back and forth. Similarly, the cut out of the back cog performs a very similar function. And I like the distorted horns: perhaps the distortion on the nearer one could take a longer time? Basic it maybe, but LagoDiLecco's animation clearly shows a grasp of the technique. Patching that background is an unexpected challenge, isn't it? All you need to do now is break the sculpture down and animate each part separately... _________________________ Animation in Photoshop is a very particular skill, and requires not only patience and attention to detail, but the ability to think like an animator. How do objects roll? What happens to shadows when they move? How do we make a layer bulge convincingly? It's a far from easy task. Congratulations to all of you who attempted this, especially those who tried to animate for the first time: it gives you a taste of what James and Tooquilos face each week. |
Posted on 08/07/11 08:51:18 AM |
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PDelavigne
Mannequin Mestre Posts: 124 Reply |
Re: Challenge 358: The music machine
Many thanks Steve, your comments about my work had made me feel "animated" - no pun intent ! Really, the movements were much faster than I had intended to do !  |
Posted on 08/07/11 10:30:10 AM |
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Jimbean
Sparky Shopper Posts: 105 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 358: The music machine
Thanks Steve appreciate your comments! I did try to animate it and can get it to move around but no matter what I tried I couldn't rotate the windmill! I was using the animation timeline in CS5 and my graphics card wont support 3D, is there some way you can rotate an object without using the 3D tools?? I did have lotsa fun with it anyway!! |
Posted on 08/07/11 11:45:04 AM |
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Jota120
Ingenious Inventor Posts: 2615 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 358: The music machine
Thanks again Steve. "overwhelming surrealism" I agree, but have you ever seen the front skin of the bass drum when the rear skin is hit/kicked by the likes the drummers Keith Moon (The Who), the whole thing explodes and vibrates in and out like some complex jelly vibration. You need the spotlights in the right direction to see it, or link it to a cog on it  . Ok thats more than surreal....
I wished I'd had more time, but now I know I need to go back to restudying animation. Hats off to our regular animators and guys that tried for the first time. |
Posted on 08/07/11 11:57:37 AM |
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tooquilos
Wizard of Oz Posts: 2905 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 358: The music machine
Thank you Steve for your comments. I realised after I posted the smoke was going inwards rather than outwards..blame the keyframes in AE lol  _________________ Dorothy: Toto, I've a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore |
Posted on 08/07/11 8:06:36 PM |
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brewell
Pixel Pentagrammarian Posts: 752 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 358: The music machine
That was my first successful attempt to post a GIF (a small moving picture, right?) The strange thing about the result is that sometimes when I look at the gear, I can see it rotate clockwise, but then sometimes it looks like it's rocking back and forth. I did it with three frames - the original gear, that gear liquified UP half a tooth, and the gear liquified DOWN half a tooth. The corrosion on the side that bothered Emil bothered me, too. It only showed up after I squeezed every extra kilobyte out of the image, in order to post. Keep 'em coming, Steve, I'm still discovering something every week. _________________ I aim to give pause. |
Posted on 09/07/11 07:28:55 AM |
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vibeke
Kreative Kiwi Posts: 2166 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 358: The music machine
Thank you so much for your kind comments, I was so disappointed with the result that I almost didn't upload it. You have encouraged me again, I will keep trying. _________________ Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize. |
Posted on 09/07/11 08:27:12 AM |
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Emil
KAFKAsFRIEND Posts: 413 Reply |
Re: Challenge 358: The music machine
Thank you for comment. It was nice challenge and I think that I must learn something more about animation. _________________ I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy. - Franz Kafka |
Posted on 09/07/11 09:35:54 AM |
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Letus
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Re: Challenge 358: The music machine
wow~so great!!!
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Posted on 09/07/11 09:35:57 AM |
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Letus
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Re: Challenge 358: The music machine
wow~so great!!!
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