Stopmotion 3d!?!
June 24th, 2007
http://www.vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=212008
Check out this absolutely AMAZING piece of 3d animation! I dare you to not say it looks like claymation! Animated by a group of guys at Meindbender.com, thins piece just blows me away!
-Mike Milo
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On June 25th, 2007 at 12:00 am
Am I the only one who thinks so?
On June 25th, 2007 at 12:00 am
This is an amazing piece. I was actually going to post about it, but I was trying to get some more info on the creators.
On June 25th, 2007 at 12:00 am
Is IS amazing… but at the same time, I have to wonder: Why not just do it with clay?
On June 27th, 2007 at 12:00 am
Oh man, if you’ve ever done some claymation you’d see right away. If nothing else it allows for the character to stay on model! The clay heats up, the armature starts to poke through the character, the feet get squished as you continue along. It’s really hard to achieve good claymation. This bit of 3d was really well done. I imagine it was done with Blendshapes for the ‘takes’ wouldn’t you say Floyd?
On June 26th, 2007 at 12:00 am
I can think of a few reasons. No sagging of the charatcer during a long shoot, the ability to see and alter what you are doing in real time, no clay fumes, more footage output in a shoter amount of time, etc. As a CG guy, I can see the amount of effort this took to look this good. It really is amazing!
On June 30th, 2007 at 12:00 am
Hello there. You are totaly correct. Apart from some squash and stretch in the rig, most of the work is done with blendshapes. The animation took one week, The rigging was done by tony österlund, animation done by Olov Burman and texturing/lighting/rendering/comp is done by me, Michael. Have a great weekend. /Michael@meindbender.com