Character doesn't have body so i din't use any Character
Studio or sophisticated Bone system.
I Put 2 bones for only Neck and Head. Then i used Skin
Modifier to get whole thing.
Then
I made some expressions for Animation with Morph. Just
like A-E-O-MB-TH-L For mouth.
I also made some expressions for eyebrows. Just like
Right is up, Left eyebrow is down foranger,
Right eyebrow for sad, All eyebrows are up.
After
that i used these targets into the Morph o magic. Actually
Morph o Magic is basicly the same Morph In standart
max
but in Morph o Magic you can make different groups and
you can key them separatly.
For Example if you work for mouth, you can make a group
for mouths and you can key them with only one touch.
lip-Sync:
Actually
I thought I made a good job but it was not so good .I
used this way to do it.
I put sound under the ViewPort, i watched the Sound
waves, I spotted Morph tagets and before 1 or 2 key
and i put them. (key them)
Especially MB, FTH, OU, L. These are Important ones.
rest of them are in second layer.
First of all, before touching eyes or eyebrows, i put
mouth in a sequence with sound. i finished mouths first.
Then I keyyed boned to make head moves.After that muscles
and eyelids.
After
that, I created couple of new morph target for ears
and I shaked them...
Actually, its not a best way to do, Bones or flex much
better for realistic shaking. But this time I forget
the secondary animations on starting point...
Thats why I used Morph for ear animation... I'm not
recommended this method.
For Hairs, I Instance copyed the main hair Piece, I
bend the main Piece then other Pieces follow it at the
same time.
You
can download the first wire frame test of Al Pacino
animation
TEST01.Avi (divx4) 4.mb
Lighting and Rendering:
First
of all, I tryed the Brazil rendering system for global
illumination,Then I try to simulate this lighting.
I created several directional light, and I arrange in
a primitive sphere and I rendered couple of time until
it was satisfying.
It's really quick simulation for fake global illumination.
After That, I build blue hard light for right side,
its a pretty usual sinematic lighting method.
When I was making the upper lights, I pay attention
to nose shadow, I like to see this shadow, but not on
the lips...
Otherwise it's gonna be strange black area on the important
lips.
I also change the eye brightness for correct aspect,
Also I change the face brightnes for hard lights..
....
..
Several
renders later, I build the final render frame by frame
TGA with alpna channel...
Back Ground Creation and composition
I
drew the backgound with my hands, and I put them on
brackground, I just try to decide wich is better.
then I like the Trees, and I start to modelling tree
animation...
I also build different kind of example for brackground,
Except the trees, for example, stone walls, fires, burning
houses, my house and istanbul ferry port...
For
tree animation, I loft the Basic lines and I link all
of it, and I rotate them...
After
that, I open up the After Effetc 5. And I try to found
my smog animation in my hard drive, I allready build this
in Illussion... Also I used this smoke in my Mustafa Jackson
animation before. Then I put this smoke animation on top
of the tree layers.
For dusts animation, I used Spray tool in 3dsmax. I bind
the wind effect to spay tool, then I render it with alpha
channel.
Eventually, I got shaking trees animation, with dust
and smoke...
You
can also download the tree animations. -Agac
Dallari.avi Divx- 500kb
Then, I put the viking animation on top of the trees with
After Effects. At that point, I want to Remind the important
trick..
when you want to use alpha channel in After effects you
have to use %100 black backgound... and when you import
the files on after effects,
you have to select black color for matte color.. It will
be perfect solution for alpha combine.
After
that, I render this animation with low compress. and I
import in Adobe premiere for sound mixing..
Then I export them to Divx avi...
FINISH:
Yeahh,
This is it... As you can see, it was pretty easy.
If you wish, you can do same kind of orc for your mother
or sister and you can surprise them...
Pueeeehh!!!!
