Some 3D short films

[Ozma Omega]

*nostalgically looks around* Been a while. I don't think I'll be any less busy anytime soon, so I doubt I can make a complete return to the boards, but I thought as long as I'm here I might show off what I've been doing for the past year.

I've spent the year at a Norwegian 3D animation school, which has been a lot of fun! Since it only lasted a year, I'm not exactly Advent Children material yet. But I did manage to complete some short animations that I'm relatively happy with.


A Chocobo Movie
My first 3D short. It isn't much, but I guess it's kind of cute.


Bathroom Boy - Elevator of Doom
My weirdest video. Based mostly on childish inside jokes. What happens when the world's greatest superhero meets his ultimate nemesis in an elevator?


Evelyn
My last, biggest 3D project, and by far my best. Quite proud of this one.


If anyone wants to download the videos (to watch them in full-screen, etc), go here, right-click on the files and "save as" (otherwise you're just redirected to the stream versions). And if anyone has any trouble wih the links, let me know and I'll post the Youtube versions. But that's a last resort, since youtube and image quality really don't get along.

That's pretty much it. Enjoy!


Edit: If anyone has trouble getting the files to play, try installing this and play them using Media Player Classic (comes with the installation).

[Sioux]

Oz, what kind of school is this you learned this stuff from?

I ask mainly because it really good looking for only one year of experience, you're already rigging and animating a bipedal character. Plus, the lighting, particle systems and textures look well worked on. And not only all that you already have Photoshop, Premiere Pro, and After Effects working for you as well.

It looks like its either you have a pretty good work ethic to learn all this in only one year or your school has nice long semesters for you to obsorb all this information in or both.

I really like your rig for your Evelyn character, simple and clean and it works for your animation. Well done.

I detest rigging myself, it gets way too complex sometimes for me, especially when going through the whole bones systems in 3D studio Max.

Edit:

Oh and have you modeled that much in NURBS yet in Maya?

I just started learning that and I'm finding it eliminates alot of issues regular poly modeling brings though you have to be a bit more creative with modeling but, the sheer quality you get from NURBS makes up for it.