What up Blenderhead? I commented a bit on the gameartisans.org thread but didn't really explained all my thoughts on it. I know that when 3dtotal.com had an animation challenge, no one really joined and when the final entries where up..I'm sure like many other people like me didn't really bother watching them...because…
I'm an animator.. and I might be down. Might be fun to incorporate all the non animators by having them make characters for us. Kind of an optional team thing. The good thing about doing just a game animation challenge is that it's mostly short movements or loops, so it wouldn't take more than half a day to pound out an…
I actually brought this up over at gameartisans, but that place is already overloaded with comps/challenges, so I thought this place would be a good place to suggest this. There aren't any game related animation challenges that I am aware of. I think it would be great to have one on polycount. I know pc doesn't do frequent…
animators are the laziest of the bunch! we'd never finish a challenge! .. however, some people here at polycount are nice enough to hand out their kickass models, I usually get my dirty paws on them and do some animations. guess thats as far as polycount will every get with animation ;) hate it when they dont model in…
"Most of the animators I have ever worked with just smile at my stuff with a kind of aww the modeller is trying to be an animator type of look:)" In answer Ruz.... aww the modeller is trying to be an animator :) ;P couldnt help it heh, but i would most definately like to see this happen here ;)
"Any animators on polycount?" >...Crickets...< But seriously, it would be nice to have more animators around here. I really like the idea and would probably join up. BUT I don't think there are enough people around here who animate to have a top 5... but who knows maybe it would pull them all out of the wood work?
The snobbery over there is f***ing unbelievable. I actually hate this latest generation of animators that tend to frequent that place, have the animation podcast on auto-download, complete one course of animation mentor and think they can take on Glenn Keane and can quote Brad Bird all f***ing day and fap over anything…
I would be on for doing something 'simple', like cycles or gesture stuff. It would be actually good to get some help on this stuff. Most of the animators I have ever worked with just smile at my stuff with a kind of aww the modeller is trying to be an animator type of look:)
If you want to be involved in the animation contests, you might get a LOT more out an actual 'Animation' based community. 11secondclub.com is an animation community with amazing monthly contests. Winners get their work critiqued by their peers at Pixar, Dreamworks, PDI, Disney etc. :D
Yeah I am aware of 11secondclub. Personally I find it to be absolutely horrible. The dialogue is always dull as hell, the forumites are extremely condescending if you post a W.I.P and you don't have post count in the hundreds (because that means more than my five year animation degree) or extremely unhelpful when I've had…