Possibile Ns Animation...

DArtagnan

<div class="IPBDescription">Would you spend four minutes watching?</div> Just an extremely crude .gif idea for a 3DsMax-rendered animation I may or may not do:

<b>Natural Selection "Yatta!" music video, using the donce moves from <a href='http://web.mit.edu/patil/www/media/video/yatta.asf' target='_blank'>here</a>.</b>

<a href='http://espclan.netfirms.com/images/lightyatta.gif' target='_blank'>http://espclan.netfirms.com/images/lightyatta.gif</a>

(Would anyone want to see this? I don't want to spend weeks animating if there's no demand.)
Thanks. <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->

DOOManiac

to something original (Remember the NS Trailer? omg that pweened) yes i'd love to watch 4 min of rendered animation...

... but not to Yatta.

Sono

I also would like to see that.

KeksImperium

this would be sooooo fun if you can do this <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->

kyliegirl

where the hell did you get that film, and why the hell do you have it?? i mean, gawd,, thats just seriouse brain damage to anyone who watches it

Talesin

Anyone have the high-poly models used for the trailer? At least, they look fairly high-poly, but that could just be the resolution used. It'd actually be pretty fun to do something to music (say, More Human Than Human, Playing With Lightning, For Whom the Bell Tolls, The Reckoning) but I'm both too lazy to model it up myself, and would rather not just convert the in-game models which would look kinda junky with the stuff LightWave can do.

DArtagnan

Well if you convert the .mdl files into Autodesk 3dS then import them into 3dStudio, it looks great... just the shadows and the way it renders make the in-game models look like high-poly cinematic-quality type stuff...

As for what the HECK that yatta video is, there's an explanation <a href='http://www.penismightier.com/main.php?start=1704' target='_blank'>here</a>.

DOOManiac

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AFAIK those weren't high poly, just the regular old player models w/ custom animations in max.

I'm sure the scanlines helped out a bit in making it look better. :P

Mr_Headcrab

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Had a simmilar idea, but to "Mein Henz Brennt" in the background <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->

Talesin

Hmm. May have to throw them through MilkShape for a convert, LightWave for smoothing/divide, and TrueSpace to play with some of the points and put 'em back in their proper spots after the smooth screws them over. Unless I can get a handle on LW's finicky Modeller.. that thing is a pain and a half to learn.

Yeah, the scanlines likely helped a lot.. I didn't overly notice them, really, except from the Marines' POV.

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Delarosa

have no idea what the yatta stuff is, but i've seen a flash animation of the thing.... it used my animation class's friendly standard character..... it was great....

AllUrHiveRblong2us

If I was going to watch an animation to a scary japanese dance video, I'd rather watch it to the Ultra Relax theme(am I the only one who has ever heard of that particular AMV?)

DArtagnan

Well, I've already put most of the ns models through Milkshape into 3d Studio...

The results are fairly decent as you can see <a href='http://espclan.netfirms.com/images/fade.jpg' target='_blank'>here</a>.

And I haven't heard of Ultra Relax. Is it an anime series?

AllUrHiveRblong2us

It is an anime series, but the theme song has been used in an AMV which featured dancing EVA characters, and and dancing cosplayers. Hilarious.

Windelkron

where do I learn how to use 3D studio max? I want to make fun animations, and Advanced High Tech Art is no longer offered as a course at school <!--emo&:(--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/sad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad.gif'><!--endemo-->

PetitMorte

There's always this one:

<a href='http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/yatta.html' target='_blank'>http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/yatta.html</a>

I think it explains it a lot better.

DArtagnan

<!--QuoteBegin--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->where do I learn how to use 3D studio max?<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Hmmm there are innumerable tutorials all over... just seek and you shall find... what I did was go through the tutorials that come with the program. They are quite nice, and cover a variety of topics. After that, just experiment, making small random clips of random small things performing random actions. After 20 or so of these you should be all set ;D