Road Runner & Wile E. Coyote

Espe

the next 5 days are gonna be hell!
i have 2 assignments due till wednesday, this is one of them.
i m going to put Road Runner and Wile E Coyote in some footage i took outside my school.

the meshes are unwrapped, but textures are still flatcolored
Road Runner: 3.138 tris (without turbosmooth)
Wile E Coyote: 4.904 tris (without turbosmooth)



still to do: rig of Wile E, animation, tracking the second shot (yes, there are 2 shots), compositing and making it fancy

Flava-Fly

Meep Meep!

zxcman

)))

Gallows

Road runner looks a bit too thin, but it could just be the perspective. Also Wile E. may need a bit of pelvis. It just looks like his legs break away from the stomach. But great work so far!

Espe

Gallows wrote: »

Road runner looks a bit too thin, but it could just be the perspective. Also Wile E. may need a bit of pelvis. It just looks like his legs break away from the stomach. But great work so far!

damn, i should ve put this up earlier, i can t change Road Runner anymore since he s already skinned, and i m afraid i ll screw it up
I ll give Wile E his pelvis right away

Espe

Update: here's the first shot (roughly animated, no textures, no lighting or shadows)
just a visualisation actually ^^


[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M73uGpMnZUM[/ame]

Espe

ow, and btw: Wile E Coyote is wearing those boots like Iron Man (that's why he's flying )

bbob

Try doing a slightly asymmetrical composition, where the roadrunner goes past the camera instead of over it. Also, think about scrolling the camera sidways a tiny bit, that usually makes it more interesteing as well.

Also, if the coyote maybe spirals toward the roadrunner a bit, like more out of control, it would also make for a more interesting compo, especially when the smoke is added.

Espe

thanx, i ll do what i can (since i dont have much time)
anyone know a good smoke/explosion tutorial?

uneditablepoly

Definitely agree with bbob. Just because he has boots on doesn't mean he has to be too static. Think about the separate forces acting on each foot and how one would have to keep them balanced to stay up, kinda like in iron man.

and for the smoke, what program are you using?

if it's max here's a quickie that's good for starters, obviously nothing great comes out of this but it gets the ideas across:
http://www.tutorialized.com/view/tutorial/Water-Fire-and-Smoke-Effects-Using-Particles-and-Opacity-Maps/7399

For the future and stuff like this, to get the feel you want to your effects and to have complete creative control over them, it would be a good idea to familiarize yourself with particle emitters in general and how they work. I don't know of any good general tutorials but even just playing around with the systems creates a lot of knowledge. I'm aware you're on a deadline, though. Good luck with your project, hope it comes out well.

Espe

i ve been working with particle systems in 3Ds Max for a month or 4 now, but i keep coming across new ways of using them, so i m just looking for the best way to use it for this project.

thx for the link!