low poly dragon animation (short)

choptider

i made a low poly dragon and animated him with biped,
just to see if it's difficult do it...
like the dragon in HARRY POTTER..



here the link: right clic and save as..

http://jeremymariez.free.fr/fichiers/dragon03-s.avi

Striff

Hey man, that looks great, I just think that when he lunges his head forward to shoot the fire, and when he pulls his head back, the motion is too quick...other then that it looks awsome.

MasteroftheFork

Looks very nice and lively! I think the whole thing is too fast though, scale the entire animation a bit longer and it should look good.

Vailias

I agree. The speed and twitchyness of the motion makes the creature seem much smaller or less powerfull than a typical dragon.

rooster

I know you're not really pimping the effects, but damn I love your fire there

choptider

ok;thank's
i'll try to do much slower my animation;
i am thinking about did an other one in the air;
and with a better render of the fire effect!

ElysiumGX

that's really good. and I'm usually critical of animations. nice fire. perhaps slow it down a bit like suggested.

warby

thats really cute how did you make the particles ?!? with max or is that added after wards ?

Soccerman18

Looks really good. The back feet need some movement though. When it's digging the left leg raises up but the foot is completely static.

Shady-D

that looks really cool but because of the speed it looks like a small and agile baby dragon..

e_x

Hmmm. I'm not so sure what you have here is working very well.

There needs to be a lot more anticipation for the fire breath. Right now he just scratches the ground and then goes into breathing fire. He'd probably be pissed off if he was going to breath some fire, so bring that out in the animation. Lower him down, get him into a more aggressive pose. Then bring his head up, puff up his chest, hold it for just a moment, and then BOOOOM, whip his head down and fire! Have him spray the area, not just shoot it straight out. Get the wings into it more as well.

The jump and shake at the end is sort of confusing. Is he happy about breathing fire? If so, it's not reading that way.

The fire particles are cool, but this movie seems to be more of a test of them, then of the animation. Put some more work into the animation and this would be very cool.

DeathByChris

the particles are fuggin awesome, is this Max's particle flow im really diggin the burn marks on the floor. nice job so far.

choptider

here the loop of the fly!!

i made 2 differents flying sequences:

http://jeremymariez.free.fr/fichiers/dragon-vol2.avi

rooster

awesome stuff, I much prefer the second one, the motion on the legs and arms just makes more sense to me, and I like the floppy wings. With the first one I don't quite understand the arm/leg movement, but maybe it will move in the air a bit differently than shown?
I love it though!