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Created at January 31, 2010
Created by Lee Crystal
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Wreckupations 3D Artist, Prop / Set Builder, VFX / SFX Artist
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Anyone that is interested and can create, animate talking people let me know.

I use Carrara 7 Pro, but those creating the actors can render the rest of the story in the program they are using. I can help make props and set parts in obj format that can be used in almost all 3D programs.

I am even entertaining the idea of using more stardard 2D animation if anyone is interested. However, I would like to be able to make it all CGI.

If we can get this going we might ask for more help, Design ideas, voice acting,poster ideas, music, ect.


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David Jansson February 01, 2010 13:32 2 Thumb-ups
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I am currently working to figure out character animation on simplified Stick figures. When that project is done I might be mature enough to figure out this one. I use Blender.

http://www.wreckamovie.com/stickwreck

I watched the exterior animation you had done. Googling revealed that Carrara has a graph editor, blenders equivalent to the IPO curve editor, using bezier curves makes it easy to have smooth motion, it will help you get a less jerky motion.

http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Doc:Manual/Animation/Basic/Tools/Ipo_Curves_and_Keyframes

The biggest advantage with open source software is that there are so many tutorials and documentation freely available. When I searched for Graph tutorials for Carrara I didn't find anything useful, except possibly a DVD with tutorials that cost money...

Because of this it is a lot easier to learn advanced software if it's open source.

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Lee Crystal February 04, 2010 17:31 Flag

When the Lazy Sue is exported as a obj all the hinged points go away on the model, as well as its skins.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPa58OPq-i4

I can see if any of the other export options might work. (3DS)

I should get Blender again and see what I can do with it. (Export to and use.)

David Jansson February 04, 2010 16:13 Flag

Lee: Peter has a very good point. I think this fact alone would make it worth for you to learn Blender.

There also exist a free program called Wings 3d. Since it's open source I don't doubt that there will be interoperability sooner or later.

Peter Vesterbacka February 04, 2010 16:01 Flag

Always best if we can go with open source & free tools like Blender, then the community that has access to the tools is so much bigger.

David Jansson February 03, 2010 13:28 Flag

Nice. Can Carrara export to a format Blender can import? I think I could do some nice things with that space ship.

Lee Crystal February 01, 2010 18:40 Flag

Thanks for your interest, we can see what we can get into.

I got blender and tried using and had trouble. Learning curve. I still had it with Carrara and it would have been cheaper to have gone with blender.

Believe it or not I found a number of free tuturials on youtube for Carrara and Daz has a few on there site too.

I'll look into the graph editor.

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