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After one year with Anime Studio Pro

Posted: Tue Apr 22, 2008 8:22 am
by Kankuran
Hi!
I have been working with Anime Studio Pro for one year, it has taken quite a long time getting to know this program, but not compared to learning animation in Flash(: Now I feel quite confortable with what can be achieved and I am very lucky I chose Anime Studio as my animation tool, but as I really use node/point animation to a great extent, there was really only one option.
I would like to thank everyone for making this forum such a unique source of knowledge and hope it will remain so for a long time to come.

I just felt like charing two little things I made in Anime.
1) Captain Flame.
This was supposed to be a continuing episode of the super hero Captain Flame vs the evil Professor Flint. I was working at a post production company here in sweden were I developed this idea togeather with Nicola Smanio. But as I have left that job, this is the one and only 1 minute episode I guess you will see(:
The character animations where made in Anime, compositing in After Effects, Helicopter in Cinema 4D, Backrounds in Photoshop.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJUD4k_damk

The other one is just a quick camera move going into a forest, it is made as a intro for a commercial. I pushed Anime to the very edge in using multiple really high-res images, I hade to take away some of them as they when rendering showed up as broken images. Is is just about a couple of seconds.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLubo3j4FSw

Again, thanks for all the help so far!

/Ola (It is a male name in Sweden)

Posted: Tue Apr 22, 2008 9:23 am
by jahnocli
Terrific stuff. It's a pity you have stopped with the first one -- excellent animation, characters and timing! Nice bit of humour too. Made me want to see more...

Posted: Tue Apr 22, 2008 12:57 pm
by shoepie
Amazing stuff, I loved the animation on Captain Flame. You blended the 2D and 3D really well too.

Posted: Tue Apr 22, 2008 1:43 pm
by Víctor Paredes
I loved it.

Posted: Wed Apr 23, 2008 8:04 am
by Kankuran
jahnocli wrote:Terrific stuff. It's a pity you have stopped with the first one -- excellent animation, characters and timing! Nice bit of humour too. Made me want to see more...
Thanks!

Yes, it is a pity, I like Captain Flame too, I just don´t own the rights, thats a bad when you work in a company, so now I am starting up my own(:

Posted: Wed Apr 23, 2008 9:26 am
by jahnocli
Go for it! And good luck!

Posted: Sat Apr 26, 2008 1:54 am
by oferhod
Great stuff! Really inspiring.
Good luck

Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2008 12:30 am
by donnie
Loved them both! Great stuff....

Good character animation in Captain Flame.

That intro you'd never guess was done in AS, looks very high-end. Was it completely produced in Anime Studio? (Compositing and everything?).

Well Done!

Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2008 11:57 am
by Kankuran
Hi there, and thanks!

One of the problems I have is lip-syncing, it is really hard. I am not too happy with the mouth movement of Flame, some bits of it work, but it does not feel right all along. Flint has better movements though.

Yes, the intro is all made in Anime Studio. I think there is about 30 really high-res images that makes up the scene, aswell as some videos and the parts of the troll. I think ASP did very well here.