Dupinet - Flour Sack Olympics 2008

[Dupinet]

Ok, I'm in.. I hope to find time to follow the challenge until the deathline

My character is knowed as "Zarape flour Sack" and he's just a kid but nobody knows that... fortunately you can't figure exactly the age of the sacks.
He's is very optimistic and ritalin kid.

The sack it's made by zarape fabric.
here's a reference of the zarape blanket:

http://zarapito.com/FOTOS%20SITE/zarape1.jpg
and here's my character:

http://img376.imageshack.us/img376/7696/zarapeflourug3.jpg
(http://img376.imageshack.us/my.php?image=zarapeflourug3.jpg)

[Dupinet]

Another advance, it's the series of thumbnails and key actions
http://img293.imageshack.us/img293/9306/planningwv0.th.jpg (http://img293.imageshack.us/my.php?image=planningwv0.jpg)

[RickyDbZ]

uhm pretty cool good luck to your challenge :)) hope youll have more than i did xD

[Dupinet]

Hi, another advance. This is a quicktime with the timming of the animation, I always make all the drawings first with the Maya grease pencil before mess with the rig, so I can check my timming faster, check poses and make desitions on the way.

http://img129.imageshack.us/img129/931/frame1hd1.th.gif (http://img129.imageshack.us/my.php?image=frame1hd1.gif)

<iframe marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" style="border: 1px solid rgb(221, 229, 233); margin: 3px; padding: 0pt; width: 240px; height: 66px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" src="http://cid-59d16652f2a8c227.skydrive.live.com/embedrowdetail.aspx/P%c3%bablico/Blog/timming.mov" frameborder="0" scrolling="no"></iframe>

[RickyDbZ]

nice i like the .mov the animation i mean ... the charachter is moving exactly the way is supposse to...hehe good job :)

[cloud]

VERY VERY VERY VERY GOOD JOB! YEAH! This is animation! I tried draw a char, I thought much, the movement make our char! YE? ( i mean more than how we draw it.....) I drew a cute flour sack but really didn't know how it can move! :rolleyes: :rolleyes: SUCH AN AWESOME IDEA THIS CHALLENGE TERRO! WOW! I hope can do something!
Oh and what's the meaning of zarape? It's material YE? : ))))))) Any question i have, wana to ask!:p

[Dupinet]

RickyDbZ
nice i like the .mov the animation i mean ... the charachter is moving exactly the way is supposse to...hehe good job

Thank you RickDbZ for your comment :) This challenge is a great idea, very physical, I mean, most of the time the challenge are about acting and it's great too but sometimes a physical actions could be very fun

cloud
VERY VERY VERY VERY GOOD JOB! YEAH! This is animation! I tried draw a char, I thought much, the movement make our char! YE? ( i mean more than how we draw it.....) I drew a cute flour sack but really didn't know how it can move! :rolleyes: :rolleyes: SUCH AN AWESOME IDEA THIS CHALLENGE TERRO! WOW! I hope can do something!
Oh and what's the meaning of zarape? It's material YE? : ))))))) Any question i have, wana to ask!:p

Wow THANKS :rotflNow the next challenge to me is that I didn't maintain the volume of the sack :D but I will try to compensate on the following steps... By the way, you're right, the zarape it's a kind of traditional cloth accesory from Mexico, it's made to support the cold weather, some of them made by wool.
Come one cloud, I hope you came to the challenge too :)

[Dupinet]

Hi to everyone! I have some more advances. I already have the poses and breakdowns in 3d. I have left the pole animation to then "fix" the inbetweens that Maya will give me (most of the time awful). I tryng to find the chances to keep it up with the challenge... I hope to finish on time.

my prev:
<iframe marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" style="border: 1px solid rgb(221, 229, 233); margin: 3px; padding: 0pt; width: 240px; height: 66px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" src="http://cid-59d16652f2a8c227.skydrive.live.com/embedrowdetail.aspx/P%c3%bablico/Blog/previo3d.mov" frameborder="0" scrolling="no"></iframe>
(http://cid-59d16652f2a8c227.skydrive.live.com/self.aspx/P%c3%bablico/Blog/previo3d.mov)

[Nyachu]

Creative character design, and it fits with its country. :) Your progress is good; you're getting better at maintaining the sack's volume in your most recent animation. I'm eager to see more (though I know what you mean about keeping up). ;)

[Dupinet]

IT'S done. I take some chance to finish the challenge, fortunately I finished.

HERE IS THE FINAL:
<object width="425" height="350"> <param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Tm-bncsthew"> </param> <embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Tm-bncsthew" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="425" height="350"> </embed> </object>

My character is knowed as "Zarape flour Sack" and he's just a kid but nobody knows that... fortunately you can't figure exactly the age of the sacks.
He's is very optimistic and ritalin kid.

The sack it's made by zarape fabric.
here's a reference of the zarape blanket:

http://zarapito.com/FOTOS%20SITE/zarape1.jpg
and here's my character:

http://img376.imageshack.us/img376/7696/zarapeflourug3.jpg
(http://img376.imageshack.us/my.php?image=zarapeflourug3.jpg)[/quote]


Good luck to everyone!

[NOOB!]

I like it,but i'm not sure whether you where trying to apply stress "easing in" or whether it was slow-motion at 0:06

still good job!

[Dupinet]

I was trying to show the weight of the belly and change rythms. All it's fast and after the sack is throwed I supposed it wasn't a good idea to recover the sack so fast to make the jump.

perhaps there would be a good idea describe better the action in that moment. A clearer intention to it.

Thanks for the observation NOOB