Oh Snap!
Ran across a little something on YouTube that I figured I'd share with all of you. A music video created in Daz|Studio using the aniMate plugin. I watched this music vid and it fucking made my jaw drop. I've attempted animation once in Poser (see thumbnail above) for a class I had called Broadcast Graphics (fuck, about two years ago now) which dealt primarily with text animation sequences like those commercials you see for truTV (formerly CourtTV). The animation I did wasn't the greatest but at the time, I was proud of it. Now :\ Not so much. Anyway, I haven't really messed with the animation capabilities of Poser since then because I haven't really had the time. However, that vid really has me thinking about doing animations again. It's a skill that I really should have taken the time to develop but instead, I let the times and my own bitterness about my former job and personal issues drag me down.
And, speaking of jobs, it sounds like there is a possibility that I might have a job. I'm really hoping this works out because if it does, it might just get me out of having to do an internship, and will make it possible for me to get a car
It's kind of funny that at the same time I'm bitching about school, I'm actually thinking about continuing my education; I'm strongly leaning towards an Associates- or a Bachelors Degree in Visual Effects & Motion Graphics to compliment the Bachelors Degree in Interactive Media Design that I'm currently working on and which I should have by next September, or sooner if I go back to 16 credits.Shit, in another month I'll be 31. Maybe I should rethink this school-thing?
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I've been saving up for a couple months now, so I decided to splurge on aniMate to help with my sprites. I've messed with it a bit and it seems to work pretty nicely for what I want, but unfortunately, those aniblock thinguses really jank up poor Aiko3's fingers and toeses. I'm thinking there should be a way to lock some of those poses though, we'll see.
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I'm tempted to get back into animating in Poser again; I'm not happy with that sequence I did for broadcast graphics two years ago—after the critiques and all, it's just not what I had originally envisioned.
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I wanted to animate in 3D once upon a time, but I could just never reach the level of complexity I wanted without crashing my old computers that weren't built for rendering. I made some animations in high school in my animation class with a combo of 3D and 2D scenes, but that was hard as balls and took the whole semester! Even using three computers at once to render scenes over the weekend it was just painful! But, that was back in the late 90's using those old "boat anchor" Macs.
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That's why I haven't tried animation until the last two/three years. It's only been that long since I've had access to computers fast enough to produce decent quality animations in a reasonable length of time.
Macs *shudders*
I'm thinking about going back to school too. Way I see it, you can't really be too old, and the way things are nowadays every little bit helps. Still, I hate homework, so I'm wavering
Yeah, homework does suck
Yeah, I really don't understand the hysteria Mac owners get into when you mention PC's. Some of the best 3D movies are rendered on PC's, such as The Incredibles and Igor. It says so right in the credits. I took an art student I dated a loooooooong time ago to see The Incredibles. We waited through the credits, and even when I pointed out that all the rendering was done on PC systems, she still refused to believe me, claiming that was just the systems they used for "accounting and stuff." Bullshit! Nobody puts "all of this movie's accounting and management was done with IMB!
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"Good? Bad? I'm the guy with the gun." -- Ash
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