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- garths, on 12/15/2008, -5/+202I'll chime in with my own "this guy" vs. Pixar argument.
My reaction to this short: "Hey this guy is a great animator"
My reaction to a Pixar short: "HA HA HA HA HA HA"
See the difference? One is storytelling. - LucasVB, on 12/15/2008, -9/+181It's technically impressive, but this guy sucks at storytelling or originality (ID4, anyone?). But I guess that's where designers and writers come in.
- jocnnor, on 12/15/2008, -1/+155I don't know why....but nothing bugs me more in movies than an inconsistent timer on a bomb.
- aidtheroger, on 12/15/2008, -1/+133Check out those backgrounds - That must of taken some serious man hours.
- ezmac, on 12/15/2008, -1/+123flo rida? really?
very well done though - anagoge, on 12/15/2008, -2/+1135...4...3...4...3...2...4...3...2...1...2...1 BOOM!
- untreadatom, on 12/15/2008, -3/+98looks like homeboy got an education. A+?
- AlekNovi, on 12/15/2008, -19/+112I'm probably gonna get dugg-down severely for this, but I'm gonna say it anyway:
I found this super boring and I'm still wondering how it got on the front-page of digg.
There was no story, it looked like a random attempt at putting transformer-like-robots in a fight - Ch3n3yTh3D1ck, on 12/15/2008, -9/+95decent. not amazing.
- torabayashi, on 12/15/2008, -5/+91"... looks like it could have easily been done by Pixar."
Pixar? No, but pretty impressive for a single man to make. - Th3_anOmoLy, on 12/15/2008, -2/+84I'd say the final animation is a decent representation of the how the final attack feels.
Outstanding short.
Edit: Looks like his site has some cool extras, http://www.vincentch20.co.uk/html/bonus_features.h ... - d2002, on 12/15/2008, -4/+69Vimeo has a lot of GREAT videos. I wish more of their stuff will make it to the FP.
- LuckyASN, on 12/15/2008, -1/+64Dugg for robot nut shot
- ripple123, on 12/15/2008, -9/+62done by pixar?... its nice, but thats the point where you dissappeared up your own ass.
- tama00, on 12/15/2008, -0/+40would buy again?
- rotundo, on 12/15/2008, -0/+38There's two possibilities with a comment like that: you're a ***** genius or you've never done anything remotely as cool in your life.
I'm going to put some money on option 2. - DarkoKun, on 12/15/2008, -2/+35Flo rida in the end killed it. It was out of place.
- clintmaher, on 04/21/2009, -6/+38Awesome animation.
- alexforcefive, on 12/15/2008, -1/+32jeez, the only thing I liked about this was the background. Thanks a lot, informed diggers :(
- gloom303, on 12/15/2008, -5/+35While it is impressive, the comment about Pixar is way off for two reasons:
1) Pixar would have made it look better
2) Pixar wouldn't have made this - it is not their style at all
Comparing it to the work of ILM (which have made some pretty nifty robots themselves) would have been a tad more correct, but still off (quality-wise). - feedroh, on 12/15/2008, -2/+31I love Pixar shorts. It's amazing how much humor and pathos they have, considering that most are silent and um.. short..
- inactive, on 12/15/2008, -1/+27The background seems familiar.
- Merendino, on 12/15/2008, -1/+27if you looked at the timer closely, you'd see, there was an internal timer and the external timer.... two dials.... one controlled minutes, the other controlled seconds of those minutes.
possible that the timer had more than just 60 seconds on it from the get go. - inactive, on 12/15/2008, -0/+23They are pre-made models that you can buy on the internet. Geek at play's website sell a bunch of them and you can find others on other 3d sites too.
- Garofoli, on 12/15/2008, -1/+24Wow, that was amazing. I'd love to see more of his work.
- Murdats, on 12/15/2008, -0/+22I thought thats what tic tac toe taught us
- tconnect80, on 12/15/2008, -9/+30Do you have a better 3D rendered fight between robots to offer us?
It wasn't earth shaking but it was cool. I though the front page of Digg was to share things that we think are interesting... - yatucaMP, on 12/15/2008, -1/+20is it just me or do the actual animations themselves look a bit non-fluid. As if they're badly keyframed or something...
Yes, I realize these are two big robots fighting and that their motions would be robotic, but robots still conform to basic physics and if you're moving that much weight around it should probably LOOK like you're moving that much weight around.
This reminded me of older videogames (quake 3 engine anyone) with animation that made the characters look/feel weightless.
Nonetheless the actual graphics quality and effects (DoF, little anime-style nods) are awesome. - mohsenxp, on 12/15/2008, -0/+17Yup the 3D networking world has made it easier to make 3d projects due to the amount of premade models and scenes you can buy from others.
My brother used to make a few $s when he was younger selling models that he made on 3d studio max. - Dotcommer, on 12/15/2008, -1/+15Its good. I've seen better for sure though. The main skinny bot doesn't feel like he has weight in the scene. Also, I thought the slow-mo bits were in poor taste. Way to implement a heavily over used effect 'n all. Still haven't come across anyone to trump Baginski though. Katedra and Fallen Art seem to still be the bar for independent 3D shorts...
Props for the guys behind this though. It takes a lot to bring the concept from paper to animation.... - IceCuban, on 12/15/2008, -1/+15The beginning looks like it was from Independence Day...
- rotundo, on 12/15/2008, -1/+14Having worked in 3D you don't know what you're talking about. It certainly doesn't have the movement of Pixar (though the render is as good as their early stuff). But for a single guy to put that together is impressive by any metric. If you don't think so, that's just your own ignorance.
- iBlinkalot, on 12/15/2008, -2/+15Cool character design, great lighting and textures.
Pretty decent animations.
As said above, the story telling lacks. Also the camera work does not compliment the action very well. Mostly static shots.
All in all impressive and loads better than I could ever manage. - Paulorific, on 12/15/2008, -0/+13I could definitely not do that, lol.
- SushiCW, on 12/15/2008, -2/+15If you want a short that "compares to Pixar", try Pajama Gladiator:
http://nicktoonsnetwork.nick.com/nnaf/viewshorts.j ... - kalvinb, on 12/15/2008, -3/+14Just because one can't do better doesn't mean they don't know better. I can't cook a steak but I know a good steak when I have one and a bad steak when I have one.
And if you want a better 3D rendered fight between robots go rent Transformers. For a better plot, see the same.
While it was maybe impressive to people who "can't do it", it was mediocre compared to others who can.
Pixar is making billions creating graphics that have gotten away from shiney ridged plastic (as seen in this sample) and moved on to complex textures and object interaction.
If the robot had made a foot imprint with the kick, that would have been interesting. But intead everything was ridgid and static. The "tear" (where you move the camera back and zoom in or move the camera forward and zoom out) was terribly done. It didn't look realistic. A human operator can't perfectly match the two movements. It looked like he just moved the static backdrop back. When doing animation the art is in the details. You can't have perfectly smooth camera movement. That's just a simple equation that anyone can do. You have to figure out how to move the camera around to imitate a real camera operator.
It's neat but the creator has a long way to go before they're ready for the big time. - jc7012, on 12/15/2008, -0/+11 There were also some Independence Day concepts pretty much taken straight from the movie
- hardcrocodile, on 12/15/2008, -1/+11people that want other people to run into oncoming traffic need to use the word pathos
- dougbot, on 07/14/2009, -0/+10that's the name of a state!
- dmbohn, on 12/15/2008, -0/+10wrong. yes they do. pete doctor, andrew stanton, john lasser all are animators and came up with the stories for their movies.
watch the documentary "a pixar story" - gridbread, on 12/15/2008, -0/+10This was exactly my opinion.
This had excellent visual styling, but the actual animation was kinda weak, and you didn't get any sense of weight.
My anim teachers would have probably shot down the animation and the story premise. - inactive, on 12/15/2008, -1/+10The Flo Rida song at the end was the worst music they could have picked for the credits
- tama00, on 12/15/2008, -5/+14It even has a lesson! War has no winner...
- PoizonFrog, on 12/15/2008, -0/+9Ultimate spatial smackdown...
- schnurr, on 12/15/2008, -0/+8Vimeo is just another youtube. People can upload whatever they want, so saying that vimeo has a lot of great videos is pretty much meaningless.
- shotgunefx, on 12/15/2008, -0/+8Same thoughts here. It was okay but not great. Visually it looked pretty good, but I just didn't think the action or story was all that great.
And can I never see a slow motion fight ala the Matrix ever again? That would be great. It was cool in the Matrix, and not the thousands of movies, tv shows, cartoons and pet commercial since. - youwanker, on 12/15/2008, -0/+8Offtopic:-Autodesk should really stop buying every 3d animation softwares out there.I loved softimage now its future is bleak.
- Baronvontito1, on 12/15/2008, -0/+8Agreed. I'm studying the 3D Animation as well so I suppose I'm picky about this kind of thing, but the animations looked way too clunky. It seemed like he spent more time working on the render (which was quite good) rather than the animations. But aside from that it's pretty impressive that one person did that.
- magma26, on 12/15/2008, -0/+8Comparing one kid to Pixar is ridiculous anyway.
- DickyT83, on 12/15/2008, -2/+9God damn that's a good video. Bet he's gonna be making some serious do re mi.
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