#cgi animation

[alphahobo123]

The Ice maker makes fancy ice

[highgroundanimations]

✨ Happy Star Wars Day Week everyone! (a bit late to posting this here 😅) ✨

Time to finally give you some updates on the Tukk Tales project and introduce one of its new characters:

Commander Faust of the Coruscant Guard.

More on him soon, but for now I'll let this animation speak for itself. 🫡👀

But why new characters? And where's the short film??

First of all I'm sorry I haven't been great with keeping you all updated in the past! Juggling the project with my freelance work and private life hasn't been easy and I wanted to wait until things have developed further until I make any new announcements, but here's basically what happened:

After the announcement teaser trailer in 2023 completely blew up and I got to see how much love and support there already is for Tukk, his company and the project, I got motivated to push both my storytelling skills and the film itself a lot further, going back and rewriting the whole thing to let us spend more time with these characters and tell a more impactful and memorable story.

Instead of a little one-off 6 minute short (which at the time was still mostly in rough previz stage), it evolved into something closer to a full Clone Wars episode, which I've eventually decided to separate into three mini-episodes, inspired by the beautiful "Tales of" shows from Lucasfilm.

With that expansion also came the need for a lot more characters, designs and assets. And since I'm making all of those from scratch, with hand-painted textures, animator-friendly rigs and screen-accurate details that have to hold up in all kinds of close-ups, I've spent a LOT of time on that part of the process while simultaneously setting up some of the previz animations for the new story.

But an end of that step is in sight and once it is complete, updates will become way more frequent as I'm much faster when it comes to bringing shots from previz to a final stage.

I still can't give a release date yet as it's a no-budget personal project that is happening between client jobs, but it's still going full steam ahead and I'm extremely excited about the new direction it has taken on a while ago.

I'll also be looking for other character animators to bring onto the project later on and help out with some shots, so if you're interested in volunteering, feel free to send me your reel (mail address in my linktree)!

That's it for now, more character reveals soon (and no, they won't all be clones 🗡️🥸)!

May the force be with you all! ✨

[cartoonfan4ever]

Shadow The Hedgehog playing musical instruments.

[mrdirectorsir]

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[technoturian]

[starfleetshrimps]

I am a practical effects truther until the day I die but i have seen some people likening cgi to ai and HOLD THE FUCK UP!!! cgi is still art?! like its still human made animation that takes real time and effort and skill. I have zero problem with cgi being used well it's still animation and backstage magic and absolutely has its place in the artistic world but ai is none of these things and can eat my entire ass. know the difference!

[franki-lew-yo]

Unironic feats of CGI no I'm not kidding. This IS an art-form and you WILL respect it cause god knows tech companies don't

and yes I know I'm missing some. Obviously. Jurassic Park is good but my intent is to focus on movies that are most or mostly CG completely.

[alangbandala]

I think one of the main reasons of why people tend to still portray dinosaurs innacurate/outdated since the 90s is because of the impact it had during it's time.

Not for how diferent were, but in how realistic they looked.

Like. These look like actual living animals, with the movement according to a creature of it's size and with realistic behavour.

And yet, they still look alien in sight. Not like any creature seen today. I even had problems conceptualizing a Diplodocus that doesn't have the spikes on it's back.

If Jurassic Park or Walking with Dinosaurs came out with the CGI rigging and animations that modern documentaries or movies have, their impact will not be the same. I mean, look...

Serpentine tails instead of stiff ones. More pronounced skin wrapping than usual. Disheveled plumage. Exaggerated proportions. Disordered scales... and the thing that hirt my eyes the most: No actual weight on the animations. Like of they were made out of jelly.

I'm not saying it is impossible to do something good with this (Terra Nova is a great example) and some scenes on thesw movies look good compared to the rest of the film. But imagine this with Jurassic Park, Walking with Dinosaurs or Disney's Dinosaur with that, and it doesn't matter how good the movie is, people will see the dinos as monsters and not animals.

I developed the idea further here:

I'm studying Digital Animation. Now I can critique and complain like a pro!