My first Carara 8 Animation

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• Dartanbeck Posts: 21,956

  July 2013 edited December 1969

  Fun! Very cool - especially for a first attempt! Love the avatar, too!
• GrokDD Posts: 59

  July 2013 edited December 1969

  Smooooth camera motion!

  First "published" animation? Please say yes so I don't feel so bad about my own stuff.
• bigh Posts: 8,147

  July 2013 edited December 1969

  good start :)
• evilproducer Posts: 9,056

  July 2013 edited December 1969

  Really good! Hope to see more work from you here in the future!
• Joepingleton Posts: 746

  July 2013 edited December 1969

  Thanks for the kind comments.

  This was was a revised version of my first animation in Carrara 8 Pro after purchasing it on sale on Friday. I had used Carrara back in version 4 and I have been doing lots of experimental animations in DAZ Studio, so don't feel bad. =)

  I am loving Carrara 8 pro. It integrates great with DAZ Studio and I love the shaders and the speed of its render engine. This animation is just a 4 seconds spin modifier applied to the "Uzilite D 207" model with various cameras moving around it. The animation really improved when I added an HDRI backdrop. That is when the reflections really started to pop and it added the feeling of movement. It didn't add to the render time as this animation was rendering at 10 sec per frame.

  Thanks for looking.
• 3dcal Posts: 183

  July 2013 edited December 1969

  Excellent animation, rendering & soundtrack. Great job!

  Did you model the car, too?

  Animation is one of Carrara's best features.
• Joepingleton Posts: 746

  July 2013 edited December 1969

  Thank you
  The car is "Uzilite D 207" from the daz store.
• Box8068_31c338ee4b Posts: 292

  August 2013 edited December 1969

  joeping said:

  View the animation on YOUTUBE.COM by clicking here.
  View the Stereoscopic 3D animation on YOUTUBE.COM by clicking here.
  Click here to see the 3D animation on 3DVisionLive.

  This is my first animation experiment with Carrara 8 Pro.
  Thanks for looking.

  
  How did you get those cool reflections on the body?
  thanks
  8068
• Joepingleton Posts: 746

  August 2013 edited December 1969

  Thanks, The reflections come from just adding a HDRI backdrop.
• Joepingleton Posts: 746

  August 2013 edited December 1969

  View the animation on YOUTUBE.COM by clicking here.
  View the Stereoscopic 3D animation on YOUTUBE.COM by clicking here.
  Click here to see the 3D animation on 3DVisionLive.

  Experimenting with the Carrara 8 Physics motions, spline objects and modifiers.
  Thanks for looking.

  

  

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• evilproducer Posts: 9,056

  August 2013 edited December 1969

  joeping said:

  View the animation on YOUTUBE.COM by clicking here.
  View the Stereoscopic 3D animation on YOUTUBE.COM by clicking here.
  Click here to see the 3D animation on 3DVisionLive.

  Experimenting with the Carrara 8 Physics motions, spline objects and modifiers.
  Thanks for looking.

  You may be interested in Age of Armor's video on youtube, where he smashed a car using Carrara's standard physics engine.
  http://youtu.be/_eDov7NwxGU

  He also has a tutorial on how he did it:
  http://youtu.be/-XGRj4VjPqk
• evilproducer Posts: 9,056

  August 2013 edited December 1969

  Sorry, I meant to comment on the video as well as provide the links!

  I like the video, but I think the camera is too tight on the ball. I would like to see a bit more of what is going on with the other objects in the scene. It wouldn't take much, just back the camera away from the ball a little as you did at the end of the video.
• Joepingleton Posts: 746

  August 2013 edited August 2013

  Thanks for the links. They are very inspiring.

  I agree it would be better seeing more of the scene. I got caught up in looking at the reflections in the ball in this very quick experiment.

  I love that there is no frame by frame animation in the ball, all physics simulation and behavior modifiers. Its so much quicker than trying to animating it manually.

  I may revisit this animation once I try some more physics experiments. The links you provided makes me want to try lots of other ideas.

  Post edited by Joepingleton on August 2013
• Chris Fox Art Posts: 380

  August 2013 edited December 1969

  Very nice work!
  Just one thing, the steering wheel is on the wrong side :D
  I was first wondering where the steering wheel is but saw than that it is on the left side :D
• Sam_16471 Posts: 57

  August 2013 edited December 1969

  Nice work.
• Dartanbeck Posts: 21,956

  August 2013 edited December 1969

  Oh Bravo!!! Love it!!!
• Joepingleton Posts: 746

  August 2013 edited August 2013

  Thanks for all the nice comments and feedback.

  This is my first attempt of importing a character and motion from DAZ Studio into Carrara and adding a particle emitter.

  Thanks to Age of Armour's great particle files (http://youtu.be/UFxGFPoyXXc).

  Thanks for looking.

  View the animation on YOUTUBE.COM by clicking here.

  

  

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  Post edited by Joepingleton on August 2013
• 3dOutlaw Posts: 2,481

  August 2013 edited December 1969

  These are cool!
• Joepingleton Posts: 746

  August 2013 edited December 1969

  See a stereoscopic 3D version on 3dvisionlive.com here!
  An quick experiment of importing DAZ Genesis Micheal 5 into Carrara.
  Thanks for looking.

  

  

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• Dartanbeck Posts: 21,956

  August 2013 edited December 1969

  Really neat! I'll have to dig out some 3d glasses and look that way!
  Love the Cyborg M4 (?) animation. I like the camera angle work and clip edits... really nice job. Shaders look great....
  Just keep doing stuff. Awesome!