MOHO MIRAGE and LightWave animation test

Gabe · Post by **Gabe** » Tue Aug 22, 2006 6:17 pm

Hello Everybody,
I'm new in this forum. I started to try some experiments with MOHO, Mirage and LightWave and here's the link of my first animation test.

www.protopage.com/gabepublic

jahnocli · Post by **jahnocli** » Wed Aug 23, 2006 9:45 am

Looks nice -- but I always thought animation moved...? (All I could see was a still image)

CowsCanFly · Post by **CowsCanFly** » Wed Aug 23, 2006 11:31 am

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i mean wow great work!!!!

Gabe · Post by **Gabe** » Wed Aug 23, 2006 11:46 am

jahnocli wrote:Looks nice -- but I always thought animation moved...? (All I could see was a still image)

Dear jahnpcli,

In the protopage click in "Test Animation MOHO-LIGHTWAVE-MIRAGE" under My Videos's Window. You will resend to the video.

Here's the link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYW5AYvHZE0

Salute.

jahnocli · Post by **jahnocli** » Wed Aug 23, 2006 3:11 pm

Ha ha! That was great! But if you want criticism...the tiger lacked weight -- looked like he was floating above the ground. And the pink devil thing could have moved more (it was funny when he moved his head backwards and forwards in a "funky" fashion, for instance).

Overall though, a really nice piece of work. Keep it coming!

Gabe · Post by **Gabe** » Wed Aug 23, 2006 3:52 pm

jahnocli wrote:Ha ha! That was great! But if you want criticism...the tiger lacked weight -- looked like he was floating above the ground. And the pink devil thing could have moved more (it was funny when he moved his head backwards and forwards in a "funky" fashion, for instance).

Overall though, a really nice piece of work. Keep it coming!

You're right!. It was only a test. The walk is hardly floating because I used a QuikckTime 15 fps file as background from my natural shaking handcam (next time I will use Boujou to track the cam) and no shadows applied to it. And The devil, I agree with you. It needs more moves. The focus of the test was the "look" melting Moho-Mirage and LW.

Bones3D · Post by **Bones3D** » Wed Aug 23, 2006 4:48 pm

Just a thought...

If you're already using Mirage for things like rotoscoping, you might want to try getting your hands on a copy of Shake. Apple recently dropped the price to $499 from the original $3000 price tag.

If I remember correctly, the software has tools in it for image stabilization through pixel tracking, along with several other goodies that could prove useful for animation.