15 frames per second. That’s 54000 an hour. Your brain doesn’t like it, not at all, it has been trained to need 9 frames more per second to be happy.

Most people don’t appreciate how much is really going on in a lamp:

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[15fps_0002 - 239frames] | prores | iphone | 2010.3.27

Music by Ennio Morricone

[15fps] – a project without a time-frame. . .

15 frames per second. That’s 900 a minute. Your brain doesn’t like it, not at all, it has been trained to need 9 frames more per second to be happy.

What does it take to make 15fps something you can enjoy? color grade? camera movement? composition? vfx? music? location? Can interesting and beautiful imagery be made with cameras meant only for utility?

Let’s find out shall we:

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[15fps_0001 - 297frames] | prores | iphone | 2010.3.24

Music by Max Richter

Probably more than that. You people will never be satisfied. . .

[15fps] – a project without a time-frame. . .

A few storyboard panels:

And a quick scene layout demo:

More to come very very soon!

[Floating World]

The Floating World is back in action, spitting out some RenderMan renders of some shots, and trying to get the CG shots really polished up. Should be posting more animation and artwork very very soon.

I have some more tools to post up as well, an update to the MayaRender droplets and some other interesting workflow tools.

[the floating world]

This should be a fantastic way to learn as it is fun to toy with other people’s work and it is also great motivation to keep producing.

Here is the original project I was given:

Some fine cutlery used to slice up the opening sample, seemed like it would be a great basis for a simple melody.

Gong Song – Take 1 (Buster Moody version)

Gong Song – Take 1 (Buster Moody version).mp3

Here is my version after a few hours of tinkering:

I was really interested in the sample he used so I just made some slight adjustments to it, mainly using one as the driver for the melody, and developed my own beat. Still have a lot more planned for this, but we are trying to maintain a quick turn around time.

Gong Song – Take 1 (andrewアンドル version):

Gong Song – Take 1 (andrewアンドル version).mp3

We are learning here, so feel to leave a comment/feedback on anything. And if you would like to join in, definitely let one of us know.

warm up project for Senior Year at KCAI. my first return to backlit sand animation since Sophomore year. There are many things I would like to tidy up, as well as a few more layers I would like to add, but it was a fantastic project. Spent right around 24 hours for this one once I started animating.

This version is at 24 frames per second so there are a few oddities, some jittering and things, but I kind of like it, it maybe works a little better at 12fps though as most stop motion does, so I may upload that one as well.

This was also my first test with Dragon Stop Motion, a fantastic bit of software developed by Jamie and Dyami Caliri. Jamie is probably most well-known for his United Airlines paper cut-out stop motion commercials. This is without a doubt the best stop motion software out there, I highly recommend everyone check it out. I am planning on testing it as a pencil test system very soon as well.

The music is “Snow Tip Cap Mountain” by The Octopus Project, from their album, Hello Avalanche:

[ITUNES]

You may see more of this one in the future…

here is a quick beat with a Japanese Koto, a few loops, and a little more Ultrabeat.

koto.mp3

i may actually create an entire track with this one.

i also recommend checking out this dude’s videos:
David Earl

and listen to my happy little beat:

made using Ultrabeat, SpaceDesigner, and other fun stuff. ultrabeat is ridiculously powerful, I think that thing could probably create the brown note.

this is all you have to do to post an audio file (mp3) by the way:
Quicktime Embedding Guide

this is just a taste of what is actually available, muahahaha!

just an overview of a few bits and pieces of my film. I went through so much pain to render this ridiculous video, but after 5 hilarious After Effects crashes, and one Compressor re compression later, here it is.

another animatic for the floating world, includes everything except for a little bit at the end that I will keep to myself for now.

now I can finally move to the really fun stuff, modeling, animation, 2d and 3d, rigging, rendering, layout, compositing, sound, music, editing… making animated films is easy right?

comment!

look for a very interesting and very moving robot that doesn’t know any better…

this is only the beginning folks, here is a quick leg rig test setup, don’t mind the simple geometry, of course it will be much crazier than that:

floating world – robotsy – leg rig test

and don’t forget to check this out in HD in full screen if you really want to know what is going on…naw mein?

mad beats by Louis Armstrong.

Just playing around with a still from Tatsuyuki Tanaka’s Cannabis Works artbook.

watch for some dangerous spherical animation in the future

stop using flip flapping YouTube to upload your beautiful animation and videos and start using Vimeo!

faster better, High Deffer, do it.

you can watch this video in HD on Vimeo as well, just choose the HD on option in the top right corner.

it’s great to be able to change your volume and brightness and whatever on the fly with your fn keys. it’s not so great when working in programs like Maya and After Effects where you really need those keys to act as normal fn keys, to change menu sets, and other things.

that is what “fn” is for. an easy way to switch a system preference in one click. that is all.

this is how it works:

fn1.1 in action

I like to keep it in my dock or finder toolbar so whenever I need to switch that preference I can do it quickly, you can also put it in your Finder toolbar if you are a freaking nerd.

you can download it ———–>[HERE] for $FREE. (or whatever type of payment you have in mind)

It will most likely only work with Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) (version1.1) and Snow Leopard 10.6 (version1.2).

let me know if (when) you have any problems.

fun times. would have loved to really complete this but like always life intervened. did we actually do this, I can’t seem to remember much of it? something about rain and a coin and wires hanging from buildings and a gun flying through the air? I think we did.

I may try to post up my main contributions to this little whatsit some time, I did a variety of things as we all did.