Still so many minutes left to animate
Posted in Media Gallery, Production by Margreet
Besides animating there are more things to do, like composting, lighting, the environment. Ton and Sacha made a schedule from the breakdown to have an overview of all the actions. What you see here is only 1 page. There are 7 pages like this which in the end all need to be checked off. No finals yet, but come back soon for more detailed information!
In this blog post also a short reproduction of the animating. William is animating 1 shot of 2.375 seconds. He has been busy with that for at least one day. One day within the Peachteam exists at least out of 10 working hours or even more. The script is divided in several scenes. Each scene is a certain amount of seconds. In the overview you can see how many animation seconds a shot has (not even counting prop animation!)
They are working on it!
Download the .ogg file here.
January 22nd, 2008 at 6:30 pm
wow… thats quite a lot :D
so is there a name for the project yet?
a rabbit’s revenge?
//charlie♦
January 22nd, 2008 at 6:30 pm
wow… thats quite a lot :D
so is there a name for the project yet?
a rabbit’s revenge?
//charlie!
January 22nd, 2008 at 6:44 pm
Wow. I can’t believe you guys haven’t snapped… or maybe you have, but retained your memory of the Peach project.
“I remember… I remember.. the Alamo.”
-Pee Wee Herman returning to consciousness in Pee Wee’s Big Adventure
Anyway, you guys are my heroes. Keep it up!
January 22nd, 2008 at 6:47 pm
nice shots William. How responsive is blender with that 3 characters? With XSI here at the studio the speed with similar rigs and 3 char is about 0.2 fps, orrible I should say!
January 22nd, 2008 at 7:00 pm
Don’t despair. You know Pixar apparently only finishes 10 seconds max a week. And Pixar has way more manpower than you guys.
January 22nd, 2008 at 7:03 pm
This is madness!
January 22nd, 2008 at 7:07 pm
THIIIS IIIIIS SPAr…. uhm i mean… PEEEEAAACH!
January 22nd, 2008 at 7:18 pm
Gianmichele: We get about 8 frames per second on these machines with three characters. I would have thought XSI would be able to do better, since it’s a more mature character animation tool. Oh well.
With one character we get 24 fps, so at least we can see one character at a time at full speed. This is without subsurf remind you.
There was some rumbling from the developers at one point about giving each armature its own thread to speed up rigs, bit I haven’t heard about that for a while.
January 22nd, 2008 at 7:30 pm
“THIS. IS. PEEEAAACH!!!” (kicks a bunch of autodesk nerds into pit)
January 22nd, 2008 at 7:39 pm
About the fps matter and realtime playback: what about a sort of “subsurf damaged” modifier?
I mean this: if turning the subsurf on return a slower fps, having a sort of “decreaser” modifier (reducing the polygons on a mesh, making it appear simpler as well) should increase the fps.
Just a thought.
Sorry if already suggested…
Keep up the great work!
January 22nd, 2008 at 8:01 pm
Woah.. I had to pay 27,30€ for the Mancandy FAQ DVD and they’re getting it for free! ;)
Great work, guys, keep it up!
January 22nd, 2008 at 8:03 pm
The breakdown pic is a bit of a spoiler ‘aint it?
Keep up the awesome work GUYS!!
January 22nd, 2008 at 8:11 pm
You can do it!!!
January 22nd, 2008 at 8:42 pm
hay does Ton ever get cross with you guys if you let out too much of the shots and story to the public? Or do you hope he doesn’t visit these blogs
January 22nd, 2008 at 8:50 pm
WOOO, that’s great William! in XSI the gigapolygon core is fast when modeling, but deformations are really a pain, and even with chunk parented geometry we have hard time getting 24fps with one character. The machines are all core duo with a quadro :\
Good to hear blender is good, and that thread thing sound intriguing :D
January 22nd, 2008 at 8:51 pm
nawabz,
it’s the other way around, we get cross with him!
Ton wants to show as much as possible, while some of us artists want to keep it limited.
January 22nd, 2008 at 8:51 pm
Hope you get a lot of “composting” done everyday very important if you’re growing your own vegetables.
Goodluck finishing the project guys
January 22nd, 2008 at 9:04 pm
I dont think we have seen to much yet.
Three walking characters and some untextured trees are not exactly spoilers.
January 22nd, 2008 at 10:55 pm
Schnappi: The script contains detailed descriptions of stuff happening in scenes. Need glasses? ;)
January 22nd, 2008 at 11:02 pm
in scene 3-1:
4 seconds long
and 5 seceonds of animation
?
will it be a bonus on special dvds?
January 22nd, 2008 at 11:52 pm
testscreenings: seconds are counted for all characters in the shot individually and then added together.
January 23rd, 2008 at 10:16 am
wow guys, i see the pressure is on!
but please… don’t rush and sacrifice quality. after all, animation is the most important part of an animation (duh).
January 23rd, 2008 at 12:08 pm
Sago: Tell to Ton not to make tons. :)
January 23rd, 2008 at 12:22 pm
Great William! Cant wait to see this shoots. Its realy a lot to finish, but all you are doing great!
January 23rd, 2008 at 2:06 pm
C’est bête que le dvd existe pas en français :(
This beast that the DVDs are not in french
:(
January 23rd, 2008 at 2:10 pm
i don’t think different language versions are needed since there is no dialog as far as we know. :)
January 23rd, 2008 at 4:03 pm
Well, maybe french rodents sound differently than dutch or danish rodents?
Does anyone have any info about this? That would be much appreciated.
For example, dogs in England say Bow-wow, whereas in Holland they say Waf. Anyone know how rodents sound in your respective countries?
January 23rd, 2008 at 4:32 pm
@ William, I am an Aussie, But in japan rodents they have being given the sound “chu” as in pikachu from the famed pokemon series.
dogs are given “won” as they sounds ther are supposed to make…
great stuff by the way
January 23rd, 2008 at 4:51 pm
Hey all, if you could keep notes with the logs of how long each shot takes to complete it would be appreciated. Also when a shot was started etc.
As much detail as to time of completion for various tasks would be of great use for independent animators looking to estimate how long a project could take.
LetterRip
January 23rd, 2008 at 4:54 pm
LetterRip:
We already know this based on our weekly schedules. We just have to remember to not throw our schedule plans away.
Basically the answer is that we don’t do enough.
January 25th, 2008 at 1:48 pm
Just idle thoughts of a newbie here. There are some utilities for distributed network rendering of Blender animations, would it be possible to rig one of those up to use for Peach? In a similar way as folding@home or SETI@home? When running on lowest priority (or as “nice”) it really does not impact the performance of the computer so much.
Probably too much work to implement but I wanted to ask. I have several old servers (just 2.4 GHz Celerons) lying around which could be used to track a couple of light rays for Peach. I´m sure many others would like to participate as well.
January 29th, 2008 at 10:38 am
@Sigurdur: http://burp.boinc.dk/
I don’t think there will be community based rendering, as there should be a rather well-sized renderfarm at their disposal (even if it is not dedicated).
/Nathan
February 2nd, 2008 at 4:44 pm
Neither of the links for the video work. Has it been taken down?
Thanks.