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crayon10
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This was posted on another forum, very funny.

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That's fun, indeed :)

But I'm perplexed : it looks like both 3D and stop-mo animation... Renderings looks like 3D, but animation is "jerky", a litte like in stop-motion movies.
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maybe "3D animated" … partly in "step" mode ?
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I really like it, it's so funny :D

I think the stunt at 0:15 comes from this video : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FsRTLlQS7Po :D
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Elodie wrote:That's fun, indeed :)

But I'm perplexed : it looks like both 3D and stop-mo animation... Renderings looks like 3D, but animation is "jerky", a litte like in stop-motion movies.
it is as simple as it is hard.

the idea is to switch off everything the 3d program 'gives' you... (i.e all the automatic tweening on ones)
and then do the animation as if you are doing a stop motion animation, so that means change the position of the elements of your puppet by hand for every second (or third) frame.
We used the same technique/idea for Patrick Chin's graduation film many years ago and i remember we were all excited how nice 'stop motion' it looked.

The hard part was to switch off all the automatic tweening in the 3d program (Maya) it took Patrick quite a long time to get that all out!
But then we could finally work the character without the program interfering with the animation.
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Ok, thank you Peter for providing me more information :D
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Peter Wassink wrote: The hard part was to switch off all the automatic tweening in the 3d program (Maya) it took Patrick quite a long time to get that all out!
But then we could finally work the character without the program interfering with the animation.
"hard part" ? isn't it only a matter of getting rid of interpolation (linear or curves)
(by instance, In cinema 4D you can use a "par étape" mode (by step))

… actually it's what you get in traditional animation… a drawing leading to another, whithout interpolation…

(anything else ?)
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chatbraque wrote: "hard part" ? isn't it only a matter of getting rid of interpolation (linear or curves)
(by instance, In cinema 4D you can use a "par étape" mode (by step))

… actually it's what you get in traditional animation… a drawing leading to another, whithout interpolation…

(anything else ?)
actually this is what turned out to be pretty hard in maya way back in 2000.
and not as simple as a mere preference setting
interpolation was(is?) so deeply integrated in the program that we had to do it on many many levels.
some very hiden
The program was built to do interpolation!
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