thefreshestever

rob, i´m done with my sequence... is it ok to upload it on sendspace and send you a link?

very cool mood, digging the style the radiowaves could use some blur or so, they look a bit strange...

thanks mark... that´s good advice, i´ll work on that...

thanks.. i dont have a mirror big enough, but i´ll film myself sitting up... that´s always the best choice when you´re stuck, thanks for reminding me... totally right about the head when he´s looking around, that needs to be refined...

the next scene - the doll becoming alive... still not happy with all of the movement when it´s climbing out of the shoe box and some things after the fall... not sure what´s wrong though... waking_up.mov

sounds like a very big project and a lot of work... i´m curious how it will look in the end.... from what i´ve seen of your work until now i´m sure it will be awesome!

edit: ich geh jetzt gleich auf´n flohmarkt im schanzenviertel... wenn du zufällig auch dort unterwegs bist, kannst ja mal durchrufen: 0160-90204363

privat. hab´n paar freunde in hamburg, die ich mehr oder weniger regelmässig besuche. ja klar, können uns gerne bei meinem nächsten hamburg-trip mal treffen, dann kennt man wenigstens einen hier aus´m forum auch mal persönlich kann dir ja einfach hier über´s forum schreiben wenn der nächste termin feststeht.

ok, i´ve read the first book on my screen because i was too curious the story seems really cute, i´m looking forward to read more. i like the way you tell the story visually, one can tell you´ve put a lot of thought to it. crit: it´s a bit exhausting to read, everything gets fuzzy after a while. a bit more room for the speech bubbles here and there wouldn´t be a bad idea i think... but i guess you´ve heard that one before and decided that it´s just part of your style... can´t wait so see it in 3D, your models are awesome... i´d go for the toon-render version if you ask me. but you will need some help animating even one of the books i guess. i looked up the price for your books on amazon, and i really would have bought one or even all of them if they´re catchy enough (i think they are, have to read some more first), but i think they´re too expensive. 16,90 € is way too much for a comic book that is read in about 20 minutes. i think you would make a lot more money with it if you´d decide to sell it at a much lower price. i mean 24 x 16,90? that´s more than 400 bucks to read the whole story.

ne, nur bis sonntag... aber ich bin öfter hier... kommst du aus hh? das mit dem kaufen überleg ich mir dann nach der leseprobe

that looks very promising, jake... really looking forward to the movie. since i´m german i thnk i´ll be able to let you know what i think after i´ve read the books.. allerdings druck ich mir sie vorher lieber aus und lese sie in ruhe, was ich im moment nicht machen kann, da ich unterwegs in hamburg bin.

hookah?

cool robot.. funny and scary at the same time!

sweet that´s really awesome, i will definately use it! thanks for the hint!

yes, i hate those things... there´s one at the head too, but you can only see it at the end when you scrub through the movie... ist there a trick to avoid these? or do i just have to get rid of these hooks? i mean i will have to use some hooks, at least at the hands... I haven't done any experiments lately, but I thought that the problem was fixed in v15...I could be wrong though. If you're rendering in v15, then I am. If it hasn't been fixed, I would avoid AO renders and fake the look if it was what I really wanted...which I haven't tried, but I think there were some experiments posted somewhere on the forum. i rendered it in v16beta because it´s faster, but in my test-renders in v15 i got the same... both on a mac though...

never heard of it before! what is it?

i´ll give the thing with the transition a shot, always better to use something unique, you´re right. i want the viewer to find out when the doll does, i think it´s more dramatic that way. i´m gonna try to transport this with music, some close-up shots of details in the photographs and the expression on his face and by throwing away the pictures and running away. i think that´s going to work, if not, i´ll have to add some more shots. i´m not completely sure yet where he´s going to hide exactly, i will just have to try out a few different shots, let´s see what looks best. that "finding out and hiding"-part of the movie is definately going to be the hardest part regarding the shots and animation, at the moment i think less is more, i could be wrong though. maybe a fast switching of different cameras from different angles of the attic while he´s running away could amplify his fear of being watched at this moment. thanks for the links, i´ll read into that later, i´m curious about the "the shot tells the story" article, since wall-e is one of my favorite cg-movies of all times thanks for your effort, much appreciated!

thanks everyone, i´m happy you all still like fart jokes @nancy: i didn´t notice yet

yes, i hate those things... there´s one at the head too, but you can only see it at the end when you scrub through the movie... ist there a trick to avoid these? or do i just have to get rid of these hooks? i mean i will have to use some hooks, at least at the hands...

puh.. tough one. you really see everything , i totally missed that detail. but yeah, now that i know it bothers me, so it will be fixed... not completely sure yet how...

surely not everyones kind of humor... thefreshstop.mov

just finished the animation for scene01 with the spider stitching the head back on and leaving the scene. it´s really a pain in the ... to animate a creature with 8 legs! still nedds a little tweaking here and there, but i´m pretty much there. the yarn will be composited in after effects later. scene01_spider_leaving_low.mov

haha... that´s going to be a good one. i love the characters! but what´s up with the reeper´s right hand? parkinson?

thanks... @paul: in fact i was inspired by the sackboy-character from the playstation-game "little big planet". it was just a few weeks after i finished modelling the character when i first saw the trailer of "9"... i thought it was really creepy how similar the characters looked. after that i added the stitches at the joints because it looked so damn cool on the 9-characters. and no, so it´s not nescessary to watch 9 to get the story, it has nothing to do with it. sounds like your interpretation of the story is pretty much what i´m trying to tell, it´s a metaphor to what happened to me over the last few years. but don´t worry, MY nightmare is over now btw: you should watch 9, the look of this movie is more than brilliant... the story could have been a little more quiet, too much action for my taste.

thanks for the feedback everyone. @ dblhelix: to 1: yes, the camera in this one particular scene is meant to be the view of the spider, but only in this scene. i thought it would help to transport the idea that the spider is lurking without showing it. the dollying at the beginning is supposed to draw the viewers attention to the shoebox, mostly i´m going to have fixed cameras in the scenes without any movement. great idea with the moving tree btw to 2: yes, it´s a transition, it´s an effect called "film burn" in after effects. to 3: what exactly do you have in mind? to 4: great idea, i will definately do that! i´m glad i was able to make your day, i hope it was not just the fever talkin get well soon!