The BRAWL² Tournament Challenge has been announced!
It starts May 12, and ends Sept 12. Let's see what you got!
https://polycount.com/discussion/237047/the-brawl²-tournament
It starts May 12, and ends Sept 12. Let's see what you got!
https://polycount.com/discussion/237047/the-brawl²-tournament
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Re: segretos corner
Reworking a project I messed around with from last year for the Retrogasm contest. Gonna try and actually finish the thing but hoping to make it better than its original pass.
Segreto
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Re: What are you working on Animators? 2020!
After watching the Last Dance series on Netflix, I wanted to do a basketball animation 🏀 simple to start!
The rig is very cool, you find here: https://gumroad.com/discover?query=raph#yvXfi
Concept Art by Luigi Lucarelli: https://www.instagram.com/helloluigi/
3D Model and Textures by Joao Sousa
Rigging by Sebastiao Lopes
https://www.artstation.com/wilh
The rig is very cool, you find here: https://gumroad.com/discover?query=raph#yvXfi
Concept Art by Luigi Lucarelli: https://www.instagram.com/helloluigi/
3D Model and Textures by Joao Sousa
Rigging by Sebastiao Lopes
https://www.artstation.com/wilh
MouflonHaineux
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Re: PROP WORKS (Practice)
Guys, i managed to take more shots and published it on my Artstation https://www.artstation.com/artwork/KrzBWG
Shiahb Alvi
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Realistic Sailor Moon
Hi everyone!
I've started working on the new project based on my own concept art
Really excited about this one! You're more than welcome to share your thoughts and ideas.
Here goes the character
I've started working on the new project based on my own concept art
Really excited about this one! You're more than welcome to share your thoughts and ideas.Here goes the character
Sycamore_Eve
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Re: Sketchbook: JunkieKong
Still alive, still occasionally making things. This is my latest folio piece, always good fun getting back to handpainted textures. I made it a little more interesting by putting it in Unity and adding cloth sim to the flag and got some wavy effect going with the foliage. Check it out on Artstation to see it in motion and get a good look in the model viewer.
JunkieKong
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Re: [WIP] Aylah/ Helen Mirren Likeness
A lot of tweaking to the silhouette. Started adding loose strands and flyaways. Hoping to have the hair done by the end of the week.
stevston89
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ULTRAKILL - Art and Shaders
Hi all! I've just dropped a post on some of the work I've done so far for ULTRAKILL, now in Early Access!
https://www.artstation.com/artwork/486E94
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrUj3cz1EZw
See the full post on AS for more!
https://www.artstation.com/artwork/486E94
https://www.artstation.com/artwork/486E94
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrUj3cz1EZwSee the full post on AS for more!
https://www.artstation.com/artwork/486E94
ActionDawg
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Re: Question about animation using skeletons
svrart said:If not, how do I handle the movements of the limbs? Currently they are all in svg. Say the elbow bends with a certain arc, in the movement how would I modify this arc?
The first method that Toon Boom Harmony and other animation apps do to have bone animations is that you have the bones deforming the control points of the vector curves. So in the same way that you manipulated the control points of curves while designing your SVG art, the skeleton joints / bones would be transforming those points as well.
The problem is that Toon Boom also does its own rendering -- it rasterizes your vector art into bitmaps to make video frames.
This is why 2D skeletal animation in games needs to use the second method for this, more friendly to real-time rendering, which is mesh deformation: rasterize those SVGs into PNGs / TGAs with transparency, use them as textures of 2D meshes and then let the bones deform vertices of that 2D mesh. The software that support this, that I remember (there could be more), are:
- Spine (like @sharsein mentioned above)
- Moho
- Toon Boom Harmony (the mesh is internal, not shown to the artist)
- After Effects, OpenToonz etc.
This kind of deformation can be combined with shape keys (AKA morph targets) to create those smooth pseudo-depth effects that you see in the Spine WebGL demos, where the character features seem to change in depth, seen below:
There was also a really nice thread here in PC by @ADR with more examples of this: https://polycount.com/discussion/186360/animated-2d-portraits-gif-heavy
As for an actual game using this kind of tech, I think it would be Broken Age: http://www.brokenagegame.com/
About the implementation, a while ago I wrote a demo having 2D mesh skeletal animation using Lua and LÖVE, it shows how to deform the mesh either in software or with a skinning shader:
This 2D jellyfish model was created in Blender, which I forgot to mention is yet another program that you can use to create these animations, but keep in mind that it's a general 3D animation program so it needs more setup before being used for 2D, unlike those other programs that are specialized in this.
RN
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spray cans (WIP)
i've spent the last few months making some spray cans as props for a scene im working on.
the labels were captured using photogrammetry.
the metal parts of the cans I manually retopologied. so I've got a pretty good work flow now.
a few of these were cans I found floating in my local river while kayaking.
3 of them were done by someone sending me a turntable video of the can being rotated and then I took screenshots from the video, with only point of perspective, it wasnt the most ideal stuff for photogrammetry, but I found that its better to use 700 screenshots instead of just 40 etc. and I got a pretty good quality scan of the label which is the only important bit I needed.
one of the cans a professional friend photographed for me in his studio last year and I had already modelled it, but I re did it in my new work flow and improved it compared to my previous model and I was able to see limitations in the photos they sent me.
finally a friend has given me 2 bags of vintage spray paint ,stuff 'obtained' back in the 1980s, for exmaple one of those cans of Marabu paint still has a Deutschmark price tag on it! if you are into spray paint you will be impressed at that.
so if the weather is ideal for photgrammetry, a bit cloudy, from around 2pm I can take photos at the rear of my house and get a good diffused northerly light which perfect for photogrammetry, I use a bit of white card for an infinite background and as the can is circular its pretty easy to just manually rotate the can instead of using a turntable or a 'lazy susan', if I dont have enough photos and the model is coming out looking 'a bit crap' I just take notes of what bits are looking shit and I take more photos, of that area, maybe another 50-80 photos.
oraeles77
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