Computer Graphics Animation

[Raziaar]

Okay. Well I have an absolutely heated love affair with computer graphics and especially animations. It's one of those fields I dream about doing, but lack the talent, especially artistically.

I still love to look at the stuff though, so please... post videos of really cool CG animation artwork here that others can appreciate.

Just to get it started, here's a video compilation of stuff that was shown at SIGGRAPH 2007. It's a sort of computer graphics animation gathering, much like sundance is for independent film festivals. And much like E3 etc.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=feBKaTJD-TA&feature=related

 

[phantomdesign]

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[phantomdesign]

Siggraph is where it's always at for 3D. Hopefully I can go to the next one.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHamlGbg8Eo&feature=related

That's the intro to my demo reel (shitty youtube quality). MY full demo-reel or just that car video links are below; I didn't have much time for cutting it together, considering I lost a job, they refused to give me portfolio material, etc, then I found a better job a couple weeks later. I should probably replace a lot of the material anyway, because I can do so much better.
Full Demo Reel:
http://gryphonauto.com/movies/Main Sequence_v03[QT].mov

Just the green car:
http://gryphonauto.com/movies/Enigma 3 Sequence[QT].mov


EDIT: Here are some REALLY old animations of mine . . .
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1pyYUPxCLNY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKB-7ABOq_c&feature=user

 

[Naph]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dUyxJ-2yPgA

 

[Remus]

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=8ep4sIHEf88&eurl=http://uk.youtube.com/profile?user=Tesparg

 

[soulslicer]

2advanced studios ftw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgFnBQMQ658&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gezyvDulORU

 

[Raziaar]

Tofu the Vegan Zombie. Made by one of the greats, William Vaughn aka Proton.

http://www.tofutheveganzombie.com/movie for the higher quality quicktime version.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3vct2yoZNg&eurl=http://www.tofutheveganzombie.com/movie

 

[Krynn72]

I posted a whole bunch in another thread that nobody looked at. Ill just quote it.

I figured I would try and find a bunch of the awesome animations and shorts I saw while attending Siggraph. These are the ones I found so far.

Raymond (I suggest watching others while this one loads, it takes a few minutes)
http://www.beam.tv/beamreels/reel_player.php?reel=cgZVvMZXfD&reel_file=RNyhDFNgxS&fs=1&resize=1

The Itch:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsrUv-6SK0A
Lifted:
http://www.jumpcut.com/view/?id=BB4568AE350C11DC9208000423CF382E

Happiness Factory:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwCn-D5xFdc

The Saints are Coming (Replaced/added CG Aircraft):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=seGhTWE98DU

Burning Safari:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Om5HtpTisJs

The Ark:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Om5HtpTisJs

Esc:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxBiGEWraog

The Grandfather of Soul:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rRj0OYImVw

Girillaz "El Manana":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEB7i8bSwNA

Johnnie Walker "Human":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpUsyB9B38M

La Marche des Sans Nom:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IL1J-YPsDdk

Two Little Birds:
http://www.ifilm.com/video/2771948

Video 3000:
http://www.gametrailers.com/player/usermovies/69672.html

Oli's Chance: (link in second sentence)
http://www.cartoonbrew.com/cgi/olis-chance

 

[AciD]

http://pl.youtube.com/watch?v=NV6o8dZP-jo

 

[Raziaar]

Thanks guys! And yeah, Krynn... I don't remember that thread or even know if I have seen it... so thanks for reposting here.

 

[Krynn72]

No problem. It only got 60 views and no replies, so im not surprised

 

[Ren.182]

This is what I've done with a group of guys at uni for our motion capture project.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7iqkRdNKRvw

We didn't have to do all that, only needed to show the biped, we just did all this in our spare time between other work, which wasn't much time!

 

[noQ]

All of these videos give me "We're sorry, this video is no longer available".

I think I have brainworms.

edit- now they work.

 

[phantomdesign]

sometimes I have to refresh the page & then click on the video (to go to youtube) for the videos to work.

 

[Ennui]

burning safari is the shit

 

[Raziaar]

This is a great fluid dynamics demo from RealFlow 4. I love computer generated fluids. I just wish I could make them.

I hear Blender actually has fluid dynamics in it that rivals the capabilities of other pay programs.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpUpVQ_jyIU&NR=1

 

[Wanted Bob]

I love Blender. Some of the stuff you can create with that program are absolutely mind blowing.

How come no -one has posted Kiwi yet? That was a really good animation short

 

[Raziaar]

I really liked Kiwi as well.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdUUx5FdySs

 

[soulslicer]

http://pl.youtube.com/watch?v=NV6o8dZP-jo

Jeggis from Facepunch Forums is like the god of combine soldier render animations. I love them.

Here is another from Jeggis:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17g_48u7uY8

 

[Krynn72]

All he does is slap on some mo-cap data, possibly rename some joints, and then hit the render button.

 

[AciD]

^ Woah that is great

 

[Raziaar]

http://physbam.stanford.edu/~fedkiw/

Check em out. Not really standalones but shows this guy's amazing abilities. I think he's very prominent in the 3d world for his research and development or something.

 

[Ren.182]

I love this one:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=_ktS-Mj2Rio

 

[MiccyNarc]

I love this one:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=_ktS-Mj2Rio

That was cute.

 

[Krynn72]

Bumping because of awesomeness.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfKrRynyBJI&fmt=18

 

[Raziaar]

Bumping because of awesomeness.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfKrRynyBJI&fmt=18

Very impressive that is! Ingrid looks perfectly real, Bruce looks cg to me.

 

[Godron]

Bumping again because of awesomeness.


Elephant's Dream, made in Blender.
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=bsGEWHNJ3s8

Basically I think 7 CGI students went crazy with Blender for eight months, and this is what came from it. It took 125 days for the BSU Xseed supercomputing cluster to render.

There must be a massive site somewhere where loads of people upload their CGI work for others to view, review etc.. By CGI I mean still renderings or animations, including stuff made by amatures in their spare time, like DeviantArt but for CGI. I had a quick look on Google but couldn't find one, so does anyone here know of anything like that?

 

[soulslicer]

That was amazing..with blender, my god..

 

[Krynn72]

There must be a massive site somewhere where loads of people upload their CGI work for others to view, review etc.. By CGI I mean still renderings or animations, including stuff made by amatures in their spare time, like DeviantArt but for CGI. I had a quick look on Google but couldn't find one, so does anyone here know of anything like that?

www.CGSociety.org (check out their forums, they have a showcase section for still images and animations, as well as 2D Art)
www.3DTotal.com has some stuff as well, but cgsociety is by far the biggest.