Guest fredcamino Report post Posted February 5, 2004 I was curious if anyone could some light on how certain companies/artists create super fluid/realist 2d animation in their motion graphics. I'm specifically talking about some of the PSYOP videos, like "Come for Brazil" and the "Bombay" ad, and many of their other videos. Certain parts of the graphics are animated so silky smooth (eg. the "come" in the brazil piece") I was wondering how they acheived it. Do they use traditional cell animation? Is it 3D graphics, cell shaded? Rotoscoped come? Some other brand of magic? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest firemind Report post Posted February 5, 2004 Psyop is 100% 3D. They might use some mocap, but other than that it's endless tweaking. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest fredcamino Report post Posted February 5, 2004 Ahh thanks. I figured it was just amazing 3D. Their stuff makes my eyes water. Endless tweaking is the magic behind all things great. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest soulmobile Report post Posted February 5, 2004 I think I once saw an article on their use of a Softimage Plug-in to render those cartoonish characters in the Volkswagen spots... or maybe it was just very very similar... somebody remembers? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest firemind Report post Posted February 5, 2004 XSI (or mental ray, rather) has cellshaders built in. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest vectorsnob Report post Posted February 7, 2004 I <3 XSI. 4-evr. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest vectorsnob Report post Posted February 7, 2004 I wouldn't necessarily say everything they do is limited to 3D. I'm fairly certain there are After Effects elements within each piece. They're simply really, really good at what they do....and I'm sure running everything through Discreet's Flame helps out with that final glaze. Â Honestly, I've never seen any of their spots on television...only in web-format. I'd love to see if they fluidity carries through to the standard television set. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Sao_Bento Report post Posted February 9, 2004 look here - AE plug coming soon  http://www.cidertank.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=127 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest soulmobile Report post Posted February 10, 2004 sure lookin' better than fractal noise displacements!... let's see what happens with this when it will come out. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest yogert909 Report post Posted February 11, 2004 this will definately get alot of play soon. I can see suspense movies blowing their titles away with this for the next 10 years. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest igorschmigor Report post Posted February 18, 2004 if you're interested in the creation process at psoyp then check out the softimage site (www.softimage.com of course). Enter psyop in the search engine. You'll get many results. They also have some customer testimonial videos featuring quite a few of Psyop's members. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest soulmobile Report post Posted February 18, 2004 yesss ...that was were I saw the article! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest igorschmigor Report post Posted February 18, 2004 todd akita from psyop has also made a toon shading tutorial at: http://www.softimage.com/education/Xsi/Sel...der/default.htm Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
