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By Kelleytoons - 7 Years Ago
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Okay, I KNOW I'm no Danny Elfman when it comes to singing (which I can't) but this was at least fun to do:
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By sonic7 - 7 Years Ago
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Good one Mike ! ....... Well done ! ..... - Actually VERY well done ....
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By justaviking - 7 Years Ago
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Great job, Kelleytoons! I really enjoyed it.
It was very well done.
You might need to change your name to Gene Kelley Toons. ;)
How many days (or weeks) did it take you to get it done?
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By Walt_R - 7 Years Ago
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Kelleytoons,
Fantastic job with animation. Very well done, indeed, and a pleasure to watch. :D
Walt
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By jlittle - 7 Years Ago
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Great Job Kelly! Loved it!
Voice was perfect for that character.
Jeff
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By vidi - 7 Years Ago
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WOW :cool::cool:
Motions are so believable. Very cool stuff that you make
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By Kelleytoons - 7 Years Ago
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Thanks all for the kind words.
Total hours to create this was around six. I can't take (much) credit for the animation -- it's all PN and Live Face captured direct into iClone, with very little post production work. I edited the body motions twice -- once when he opens the gate, and the other when he removes his head (both times a tiny bit of adjustment in the hands). So if you like the movements that's an old man acting (which I have been known to have some skills at, although in this day and age just moving around is an adventure). I really think the mocap worked well due to the thinness of the character (as some of you might know, pro mocap artists capture with their arms away from their bodies because the arms often intersect. I usually forget to do this but in this case it didn't matter. Notice how in the very last scene I cross my arms over my chest? I've never been able to do this without a LOT of editing and this time it was great out of the box due to that character being so thin).
The sets were all Daz, except for the last "forbidden forest', when I "planted" some Speedtrees in a clearing (the background is another Daz set that I thought I'd spend more time in but it didn't work out that way). The avatar is a Daz figure, clothed in CC3 with a suit from Daz, and I edited it a bit (texture maps and removing the eyes) to get the look I wanted.
The things that took me the longest were some of the simplest, but it did take me about 30 minutes to create the head removal effect (another avatar and the right timing on textures and visibility). Total time for all mocap (face and body) was around an hour -- I did two takes for each body movements, and three for the voice (I used the second take for all body movements, and the third for the voice but by that time my voice was giving out. I had to use it because I forgot to record audio for the first take -- doh - and the second wasn't all that good).
It shows the power of iClone and the right tools. I love this software.
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By justaviking - 7 Years Ago
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Kelleytoons (10/26/2019)
Total hours to create this was around six.
I can't take (much) credit for the animation -- it's all PN and Live Face captured direct into iClone, with very little post production work.
Wow! That makes your wonderful video even more impressive. Let's just say you used those tools very well.
So if you like the movements that's an old man acting (which I have been known to have some skills at, although in this day and age just moving around is an adventure).
Funny.
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By mark - 7 Years Ago
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Simply WONDERFUL!!!!!:P:D;)
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By rosuckmedia - 7 Years Ago
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@Kelleytoons
Excellent, very good animations and singing.
Greeting rosuckmedia:):)
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By nealtucker - 7 Years Ago
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Brilliant job Mike, very enjoyable and fun.
Thanks for sharing your techniques too.
N.
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By Kelleytoons - 7 Years Ago
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Thanks for the kind words. I intend to make a video going into detail about my techniques (for a new video). I was going to do that today, but I screwed my knee up playing tennis yesterday so it might have to wait a bit (one of the aspects is the mocap and right now my only mocap would be me limping :>).
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By mtakerkart - 7 Years Ago
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Very cool . Interesting to see that you didn't have to clean up your mocap. I always have jittering root moves.
Interesting too that your motion have a "stop-motion" look like in The nightmare before christmas.
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By Kelleytoons - 7 Years Ago
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mtakerkart (10/29/2019)
Very cool . Interesting to see that you didn't have to clean up your mocap. I always have jittering root moves.
Interesting too that your motion have a "stop-motion" look like in The nightmare before christmas.
Well, you may have answered your implied question: perhaps the "stop motion" look is the "jittering" that you have to clean up.
Because ALL my animation is either "funny" or "cartoon like" I kind of like the "stop motion" look.
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By Dragonskunk - 7 Years Ago
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Nice one!
Too bad that fence was like a plaid suit on a CRT, it was flickering like crazy.
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By 3dtester - 7 Years Ago
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Well done Sir! :D :hehe: :cool:
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By 3dtester - 7 Years Ago
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Kelleytoons (10/29/2019)
Thanks for the kind words. I intend to make a video going into detail about my techniques (for a new video). I was going to do that today, but I screwed my knee up playing tennis yesterday so it might have to wait a bit (one of the aspects is the mocap and right now my only mocap would be me limping :>).
Sorry to ask that, but why do you guys who have problems with your knees still play tennis??
I don't get it. Just do a different sport...
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By Kelleytoons - 7 Years Ago
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Well, if you've never played a sport your whole life that you are passionate about it might be difficult to understand. But perhaps you have another hobby, like animation? And if your doc said "well, that wrist of yours will continue to cause a great deal of pain unless you stop doing stuff on the computer. Maybe you could take up a different hobby, like bird watching?" would you still be happy?
I've been a tennis player (and if I do say so myself, a pretty good one) for over half a century. Giving it up would be like giving up using a computer for a lot of people -- almost impossible. There will come a day when I will have to that, of course, but I intend to keep trying as long as possible.
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By toystorylab - 7 Years Ago
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Nice ;)
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By SuzD - 7 Years Ago
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I loved watching that video. It's extremely well done. *applauds*
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By Kelleytoons - 7 Years Ago
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Thanks so much for the kind words.
I didn't mention this before (I don't think) but I second-guessed this a LOT -- halfway through I was going to give up because I thought "who does he think he is trying to redo something as seminal as Elfman's singing and song?" I'm glad I finished it and all of you folks saying nice things means a great deal to me.
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