I originally started this project for the Greyscale Gorilla “Milk and Cookies” 5 second challenge. I decided to make it longer and do a short character animation. I learned a lot from this project: The criss-cross pattern on the glass was an interesting modeling exercise. The background and table use baked global illumination to speed up render times. I learned to manage my timeline workflow a little better. I even got to use a little mograph and Soundtrack Pro. All-in-all, a very entertaining exercise!

This is a new concept I’ve developed. While the *effect* is nothing new, I believe this implementation within C4D is. The motion of the camera, the motion blur, and the flow of time (here, zero) are all independent. I’ve kept the scene very simple because it takes a long time to render.  The use of MoDynamics poses an additional challenge because it uses the Bullet Physics Library, which currently doesn’t calculate sub-frames in C4D.  I would like to compare this result with a vector motion blur based approach, as I’m sure that would render much faster, but I don’t currently own RSMB.  However, I’m sure my method is valuable because it is absolutely accurate, whereas motion vectors may not work with transparency, reflection, animated textures/lights, particles, sketch&toon, etc.

I’m experimenting with an alternative to the sound effector for the rhythmic timing of lights.  I want more of a 808 kind of thing.

Just playing around with spline dynamics and deformers.

I animated this video using Photoshop.  Everything is hand-drawn.  Through the first part of the video, I gave myself one minute to draw each of the frames.  Once my hands become visible, I gave myself enough extra time to increase the level of detail while keeping the look consistent.

So my good friend William Howell edits all of these lectures for IHMC in Pensacola.  He went out of town for a week and I got a chance to “ghost” edit.  Using his previous lecture as a guide, I edited this one.  I thought that I could devise a more efficient, less time-consuming method to achieve the iChat look that Bill uses throughout his videos.  This is the result of those tests.  This setup allows for drag-and-drop replacement of the video and intuitive manipulation of each element.  Unfortunately, it’s a little processor intensive.

This is part of a series of short animations I did for a proposal IHMC was giving to NASA.  We were pitching virtual cameras for the new rover.  Since lunar geography doesn’t change very quickly, you can use satellite imagery and topography in to make sure you’re not driving over any cliffs… at least that’s the theory.  The rover’s driver would be able to fly a virtual camera to improve his situational awareness.

I can’t take credit for this particular rover model, although I do have one of my own, but the moon and animation are all me.