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U3DA Challenge - October - Primitive 'mation competition!

Animation time! This time around we are going to do something different. With Clinton's new tools for animation in TS 7.61 beta 8 and other great animation tools out there, we are going to compete bringing to life a basic primitive of your choice.

Make a cube bounce around. Make a sphere scare a cone. Make a torus roll around then jump happily. Make a polyhedron fall in love with a three point pyramid.

Take this as an opportunity to try out new animation tools, methods and animation techniques. Don't forget to include squash and stretch, anticipation, emphasis, ease in and ease out, or even just plain stopmotion styles in 3D. Have fun, make it creative.

The Rules:

1) Use any software of choice.
2) Only one entry per contestant
3) Animation must have a minimum of 10 seconds or 300 frames.
4) Post your entry in this thread under the following conditions:
- Final output size must at least be 640x480 to a size of 1920x1080.
- Video must be posted to Youtube
- Entry must contain a screen capture and a title with a youtube link/embedded preview.
5) Other conditions:
- Final Render is optional, but animatics (realtime previews) will still qualify
- Separate WIP thread optional but highly recommended
- Prefab, purchased or procedural models and props are allowed, including animation rigs and sets.


Dates and Deadlines:

The challenge begins now -October 06, 2013 and ends on October 28, 2013 at midnight in your location.

The poll will start on October 29, 2013 and end on November 2, 2013. (now December 3 - 6)

If the competition activity is low (1 or 2 contestants) the competition will include an extra month.

Organization:

-Main Contest Thread. This thread, is reserved for the theme, rules and the posting by contestants of entries.

-Comments Thread. A thread for general discussion will be created for this challenge.

-Poll Thread. A poll thread will appear on the day specified above


Prize

Yes, there is a prize, and this prize is my Minlis Rig from my Alkathosk series for trueSpace 7/61 beta8 with a multipass shader setup absolutely free!

Title: Pool 4 for 3

TS 7.6 model side, physics, Ulead Video Studio 11. Boxes, a cylinder, and a plane.

Mutant Sphere

Carrara 8.5 Pro
Render time: 12 hours 20 minutes
Use of particle emitter to "morph" sphere
music: personal taste, that and my harmonica is rusted.

Here is my video for the competition. It's simply called dog walk.

This was done in TS 6.6

Music by josh Molen. http://thetunepeddler.com/

I got to say that this was a real pain to do but i really enjoyed myself doing it. I have to start doing more little animations in TS





Sorry, for some reason i can not embed a you tube video

TRY THIS LINK HERE.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdGD1oAC ... UEF2g-XbVQ