The Normals Rig Test

Cheez

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pyhf3JmODHE[/ame]

Interesting. Falls apart in some spots (opening mouth, close up on eye) but still pretty impressive.

Davision3D

Yeah, awesome rig, looking very real!
It only bugs me that his inner mouth looks self illuminated.

TheSplash

A very impressive rig! This guy has done some similar stuff in the past.
The term gets misused a lot these days but for me this falls right in the "uncanny valley".

bounchfx

holy shit. I that looks almost real!

besides the character looking ugly as sin and the pores looking so prominent it could be misread for a burn injury it looks and moves absolutely stunning

TWilson

Fantastic work all around.

Toomas

Totally uncanny valley material, like almost a living corpse.
Managed to make me feel creepy.

Eric Chadwick

Wow. Eye animation was fantastic throughout, plus the minute facial tics, the swallow. Wow.

Biggest thing that bugged me was lighting. Anyone else think the inside of the mouth was too bright, washed out?

JordanW

I agree with eric, the motion and deformation were fantastic. I think the materials and lighting really gave it away.

Illusions

I can barely tell due to the fact its a youTube video, but it also looks like he took into account the fact that the eyes don't start rotating about their axii in the eyesocket until the head reaches a certain point of side to side rotation as well. But yeah, the materials and modeling were the few things that detracted from this. I was quite splendidly happy with this though...

.eb

brilliant stuff...

...I would like to see the complainers do better.

Ged

some parts of his face looks a bit like a friend of mine, that makes it even more freaky lol

thomasp

inside of the mouth definitely was too bright/skin-shader could do with improvements. very awesome overall - feels very alive to me, tho not necessarily entirely human. don't forget this is work done by one guy for his short: already ahead of what certain character art departments in the movie industry came up with not too long ago - imo.

i like that it doesn't have the usual "barbie & ken" look of all CG humans. not an orc or spacemarine either, get's my vote!

East

Yeah, this is really awesome stuff. Showed it to a couple of people in the office today, and they pretty much had the same reaction that I had, which was, "bloody hell!"

But yeah, there were a couple of things there, as mentioned above, that didn't look all that awesome.

.eb wrote: »

...I would like to see the complainers do better.

You're not one of those "if you can't do better yourself, you have no right to complain," people, are you? :P

Jaco

That's some inspirational shit, thanks.

[MILES]

That is disturbingly good. Missed the pupil dilation though with the eyes staying closed so long. Nostrils were kinda funny...pores...lighting of inner mouth (as discussed). Nitpicky stuff considering how good it is. Hair looked cool. Guy was not too handsome. Thanks for sharing.

.eb

East wrote:

You're not one of those "if you can't do better yourself, you have no right to complain," people, are you? :P

I don't think so, I just had a moment of "being annoyed by petty-critic, syndrome".

Those people should wear t-shirts that say "I bitch for a living"...I will wear 1 too since I am complaining about their complaints. :P

P.S. if you take this too seriously, get ur head checked yo!

Malekyth

Oh man, SWEET!

I caught myself thinking it was real for a moment, and it occured to me how rattling it would've been if, two seconds before the end of the video, the rig had turned inside out on itself. You know, like what your Biped does at 3am during crunch just because Autodesk hates you. It could've been like those little internet "GOTCHA!" jokes that get me every single time, where your eye gets comfortable watching the peaceful pastoral scene for ten seconds before the shrieking zombie pops out and makes you cry in front of all your friends.

Flynny

Christ, that animation really sold me a few times, amazing!
The bestest little touch is the eyes!!! How at certain movements he actually flicks a look at the camera and back again, kinda freaked me out.

Im intrigued as to how "realtime" his rig is?

Michael Knubben

I'm curious to see his methods, as I suspect much of this may be emulating recorded material. Many people would say 'whatever gets the job done' my point is that you can't just record everything and then animate over the top.

If I'm wrong (and I admit that I may very well be! In fact I hope I am), this is really impressive, though.

thomasp

i heard there's a cg society special coming up real soon about this.

Slipstream

Fantastic modelling and animation all around, but it was kinda creepy.

Slum

That point where he moves and grabs the camera to bring it closer to the eye... man, that was creepy. the natural type of motion really sold it there.

MoP

Really cool stuff. The "gulp" animation was a touch of class.

John Warner

this is really interesting, in that the materials aren't perfect at all, but the animation is so awesome that i believe this thing has a soul.