Short Film Animator(s) Needed!

[shemseddine]

Yeah sure I can as long as I get an idea of what you are wanting I think it's do-able

 

[Christine JB]

Yeah sure I can as long as I get an idea of what you are wanting I think it's do-able

I was thinking that maybe you could animate my minecraft character opening a chest and then my name flies out of the chest or something like that.

 

[Daemon White]

If you want to have 3D in your video, unless it's meant to be floating around, you'll need a few things to make it look like it's in the actual scene.

1: an image of the sky and surroundings (You can use a reflective ball for this (Like a christmas ornament. HAS to be 100% reflective, no fancy things on it) take 2 pictures of the ball each one is on the opposite side from the previous one)

2: a solid shot with various points to track from the camera (8 or more points with at least 4 on the ground)

3: something as a placeholder (Like a big bouncyball or something similar (They used a greenscreen person for the main character to pet in place of a wolf in Twilight as an example)

Sources: 1.5 years in college, plus the bonus feature on one of the Twilight videos I was forced to watch one day

 

[Sirkoin]

Well I only animate in 2d so i think i can't help on this one!

 

[Christine JB]

If you want to have 3D in your video, unless it's meant to be floating around, you'll need a few things to make it look like it's in the actual scene.

1: an image of the sky and surroundings (You can use a reflective ball for this (Like a christmas ornament. HAS to be 100% reflective, no fancy things on it) take 2 pictures of the ball each one is on the opposite side from the previous one)

2: a solid shot with various points to track from the camera (8 or more points with at least 4 on the ground)

3: something as a placeholder (Like a big bouncyball or something similar (They used a greenscreen person for the main character to pet in place of a wolf in Twilight as an example)

Sources: 1.5 years in college, plus the bonus feature on one of the Twilight videos I was forced to watch one day

Ok. So what if I was making this scene completely from scratch and from my imagination? What would I do?

 

[Daemon White]

Ok. So what if I was making this scene completely from scratch and from my imagination? What would I do?

So... from a 2D background? Or completely 3D? If it's completely 3D then you shouldn't have to worry. The only thing there is how much detail you want in your world. And making a 3D scene can be easy or hard depending on that amount of detail. Then there's rendering, and again depending on deatail, can take anywhere from a day to a month to render.

 

[Christine JB]

So... from a 2D background? Or completely 3D? If it's completely 3D then you shouldn't have to worry. The only thing there is how much detail you want in your world. And making a 3D scene can be easy or hard depending on that amount of detail. Then there's rendering, and again depending on deatail, can take anywhere from a day to a month to render.

I don't really know whether I should do 2D or 3D yet. I guess I should finish planning it first and then figure out which one would work better.

 

[Daemon White]

I recommend you finish your planning first.

Get storyboard going first, then a script. Do that before you start looking for animators. A well hatched plan will do much better than something done on impulse.

 

[sickmind33]

If I was good at animating, I'd help

 

[shemseddine]

I think you should go for 3D

Here's a small render I did for dexter from dexters lab

simple animation that I did for a quick animation tryout youtube.com /awUWFAROENg