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A MIXAMO-RIGGED AND ANIMATED EXPERIMENT
I have always wanted to add character design and animation to my bag of tricks but the process of weighting the character has been a struggle. So i decided to give Mixamo.com a shot and have my character auto-rigged and weighted.
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PROCESS
The character is based on a low poly base mesh that I heavily modified in Cinema 4D. I generated a Hi res version that was uploaded to Mixamo.com for rigging and animation. The character's textures were created in After Effects.
The environment I modelled in Cinema 4D is rather simple and in order to have a lot of details without additional geometry, displacement maps were generated with JSplacement( that I just can't praise enough! ) and further refined in Photoshop.
The animation was rendered in Octane at a resolution of 2520x1080, which took my GTX 1080 between 3 and 15 minutes per frame depending on scenes.
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BREAKDOWN
Here you can find a little post production breakdown:
https://vimeo.com/263030322
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TOOLS
Cinema 4D 19
After Effects CC 2018
Octane
Mixamo.com
Photoshop CC 2017
Illustrator CC 2017
Optical Flares
JSplacement
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CREDITS
The soundtrack was created entirely from samples downloaded from freesound.org.
Almost all sound effects are public domain except heevlo 06.wav
(https://freesound.org/people/tim.kahn/sounds/123596/#) by freesound.org user tim.kahn (https://freesound.org/people/tim.kahn/) which is used under the Creative Commons Attribution License
(https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/).
I have always wanted to add character design and animation to my bag of tricks but the process of weighting the character has been a struggle. So i decided to give Mixamo.com a shot and have my character auto-rigged and weighted.
----
PROCESS
The character is based on a low poly base mesh that I heavily modified in Cinema 4D. I generated a Hi res version that was uploaded to Mixamo.com for rigging and animation. The character's textures were created in After Effects.
The environment I modelled in Cinema 4D is rather simple and in order to have a lot of details without additional geometry, displacement maps were generated with JSplacement( that I just can't praise enough! ) and further refined in Photoshop.
The animation was rendered in Octane at a resolution of 2520x1080, which took my GTX 1080 between 3 and 15 minutes per frame depending on scenes.
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BREAKDOWN
Here you can find a little post production breakdown:
https://vimeo.com/263030322
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TOOLS
Cinema 4D 19
After Effects CC 2018
Octane
Mixamo.com
Photoshop CC 2017
Illustrator CC 2017
Optical Flares
JSplacement
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CREDITS
The soundtrack was created entirely from samples downloaded from freesound.org.
Almost all sound effects are public domain except heevlo 06.wav
(https://freesound.org/people/tim.kahn/sounds/123596/#) by freesound.org user tim.kahn (https://freesound.org/people/tim.kahn/) which is used under the Creative Commons Attribution License
(https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/).
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