Bokoblin

AlexKola

I've been messing around with stop motion style animation in zbrush. sculpting each frame, and studying games like King of Fighters and street fighter. I'm trying to be efficient with my frame usage as it takes me 2 or 3 hours to make each pose. I've done a bit of motion blurring and swinging effects in photoshop but I am still exploring that look. The process is pretty simple, just transposing and making sure I have low enough subdivisions to make posing easier. I"ll break this down more as I go but here's my current progress.

AlexKola

Here is what it looks like, straight out of zbrush, without any motion blur in case anyone is curious.

Pav3d

Thats really cool!

pixelpatron

MOAR!!!

Jager

Clicked for the Zelda, stayed for the animation. Cool Stuff!! 

AlexKola

Thanks for the support. I'm working on a few updates to some of the frames. I'm trying to emphasize the impact and improve the overall motion but I thought I might share the sculpt until that is complete. This is a modelling forum afterall! 

AlexKola

I modified a few poses and played with timing a bit..
I still want to re work the frame right before the cluib flattens out. 
Still thinking about annothign more frames to help his transition back to idle.

AlexKola

I kept playing around and added a second frame of the impact just in photoshop, where he is really flattening out at the time of the hit. Maybe it's the crappy paste job but I'm feeling the impact a little more.

lotet

This is really cool, so strange but really interesting, would love to see more!

WilliamB_Art

Never seen animation in zbrush like that before mate, thats cool! Keep posting the work, i would love to know more!

EiGHT

So badass!
Really!

Michalo

It's so sick you did it in ZBrush! So freaking cool!

Wasn't it better to do this in layers? This way you could use timeline to animate.

jake1210

I'm not much of an animator, but this looks super smooth! Great work! I've also never seen anything like this done in ZBrush.

AlexKola

So I have polished up a few of the frames base on my last photoshop mockup. I tried to push the smearing right before impact.
 I have repositioned the feet in the initial jump pose but I feel I still need to work on the back leg planting.

@Michalo Yes I have been thinking about using layers a lot lately and I might do that to generate some in betweens when I make the idle pose but I am going to try and keep each frame per sub tool ultimately. It's so nice having an undo stack per frame. It's something that most animation packages wouldn't be able to do but I find it pretty useful when exploring poses. 

Brian "Panda" Choi

This feels like a zoetrope.

Michalo

Are you developing this to somehow use it in production?

ChrisCandide

Nice work. Interesting to see Zbrush used this way. Just a suggestion to make things easier on you for production, try using a program called Akeytsu for animating. Its a low cost solution and you can get similar results with less time. Another method but a bit more costly is combing 3d studio Max and a plugin called Overspace World Morpher. The World Morpher allows you to sculpt your key frames in Max (as part of normal animation work flow) This way you get the exaggeration needed for poses, without having to depend on complex rigging system.  You can easily create smeared frames on the fly.

http://hocuspocus-studio.fr/tools/product/overmorpher-world-space/

motionblur

ChrisCandide said:

Nice work. Interesting to see Zbrush used this way. Just a suggestion to make things easier on you for production, try using a program called Akeytsu for animating. Its a low cost solution and you can get similar results with less time.

Sorry to sidetrack the thread but thanks for the tip. Akeytsu looks pretty cool

bigdeku

Have you seen the talk with the art director of Guilty Geard Xrd?

His team were trying to achieve a similar idea, from the perspective of replicating the wandering fluidity of hand draw animation in the rigidity of computer graphics. Their solution was to use a complex rig with distortion points splayed across its entire surface so they could play with smears and perspectival distortions like hand drawn animators do, similar to how you've got that bend in the club as it whips through the air, which I really like, it's super juicy. But perhaps this might be interesting to give you some more ideas. 

In general in think this question of how we can make 3D a more fluid medium is something that's not often addressed. I wish there was a way to engage in 3D with the same spontaneity and fluidity as drawing and painting. 

Here's the link to the talk:
https://youtu.be/yhGjCzxJV3E