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A small step for Panzerfire, a giant leap for Panzerism.lol, what did I just say?! Makes absolutely no sense!
haha, anyway, here's what I have been up to in recent weeks. I along with some friends have decided to learn how to use Adobe After Effects CS4. This is the result..... so far.
I used Kahoru's face from [link] and created a bunch of vector based shapes which I've later animated across 10 seconds. This was quite fun to do and I'm definitively going to do more animations in the future. Might lower the amounts of FPS and the size of the pictures in order to make them lighter.
I will be going back to the picture in AECS4 and will try to include, textures, shadows and hopefully more varied expresions. I'm even planning to do a partial or perhaps even a full rotation of the head sideways and up and down. The awesome thing is that I can export these animation to a number of formats including video so I could include some sounds and music in future projects.
Anyway, I'm still drawing stuff.
Aside from that, I just want to mention that my internet connection has been down since last week. So I haven't been able to reply to all the comments and notes I've been getting. In case you wonder, I'm uploading this from a Cyber-cafe.
But once I'm back online, I'll get to all your comments ASAP.
Hope you like it.
See'ya in the Battlefield!
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Comments: 34
OlivesandGrapeareok [2022-03-05 14:03:53 +0000 UTC]
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Panzerfire In reply to OlivesandGrapeareok [2022-03-05 21:54:52 +0000 UTC]
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OlivesandGrapeareok In reply to Panzerfire [2022-03-05 22:14:11 +0000 UTC]
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Panzerfire In reply to OlivesandGrapeareok [2022-03-05 22:19:22 +0000 UTC]
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devijavi [2013-06-27 20:39:58 +0000 UTC]
Esta genial!!!!!!
:3 :3 3
Me hace pensar que te gusta el anime, yo soy gran fan!
:iconhellsingplz:
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Panzerfire In reply to devijavi [2013-06-30 15:18:51 +0000 UTC]
He... no se puede dibujar en estilo anime sin haber visto anime y tener algunos favoritos.
Los mios son Black Lagoon y Gasaraki entre otros.
Aunque ultimamente no he visto tanto anime como me hubiera gustado.
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devijavi In reply to Panzerfire [2013-06-30 16:34:03 +0000 UTC]
Yo soy gran fan de Hellsing
Death Note
Dragon Ball
HOTD
Y mas
Me encanta tu trabajo! Es excelente
Sigue asi!!!
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Panzerfire In reply to devijavi [2013-07-05 16:30:53 +0000 UTC]
hehe gracias. Voy a tratar de dibujar mas.
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Panzerfire In reply to pauldy [2013-06-14 15:00:40 +0000 UTC]
Cheers. I hope I can do a few more. It's quite fun to animate stuff. Almost like giving a drawing some life.
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NDTwoFives [2013-04-21 04:13:27 +0000 UTC]
Wondering the same as
Looks fluid so far, have fun lip syncing it with someone's voice later on.
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Panzerfire In reply to NDTwoFives [2013-04-22 20:30:54 +0000 UTC]
I believe those weird colored pixels are the result of some setting I need to adjust in the process of exporting the file to a video or image format.
And synchronizing the voice with the animation shouldn't be too hard. I just need the voice recording first and then do the job. Wouldn't work the other way around. Working in After Effects is remarkably easy once you know your way around.
I'm definitively going to do more animations (More elaborate ones than this one though), and if I can a might start adding sound and some music. However in that case I will have to start uploading my stuff to my YouTube channel.
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NDTwoFives In reply to Panzerfire [2013-04-25 04:18:22 +0000 UTC]
Don't forget that.gif files are tightly compressed when compared to .jpeg, that makes loss of quality much more obvious. Not sure if it's at your reach, but rendering them in .flv through flash would likely keep the quality to a optimal setting.
I could be wrong but that's all I recall from experience.
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Panzerfire In reply to NDTwoFives [2013-04-25 15:40:05 +0000 UTC]
I'll see what I can do for the next test.
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Panzerfire In reply to KodyYoung [2013-04-22 20:24:57 +0000 UTC]
It's likely a mistake I made somewhere in the file settings when I exported the compilation to a GIF file.
I will look into it but in the compilation itself, the colors remain as plain as they should be.
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camorus----234 [2013-04-19 20:26:46 +0000 UTC]
This looks really so far, what else u gonna animate?? Mr Panzerfire I have done the camo on your Russian female soldier in my gallery, see what u think meine herr
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Panzerfire In reply to camorus----234 [2013-04-22 20:23:21 +0000 UTC]
Well, I'm still going to work more on this particular animation since it's a testbed anyway so I'll be using it to try different techniques and tools.
But the plan is to add some textures like hair or the camouflage patterns on her cloating and see how well I can animate that. Then I want to add shadows that can also be manipulated trough an animation. The shadows may not be as good as inmy usual pictures but should still do the trick.
Finally I want to fully rotate the head in a way that doesn't distort the face so much.
All this is of course purely for testing porpouses.
In the future I want to make more elaborated animations like an urban combat scenario with tracers and explosions and other effects. Perhaps some Tank warfare. But rather than uploading them all as GIFs, I might upload them to YouTube with sound effects and maybe some music in the background.
Heck, If I get people to aid me adding 3-D models of vehicles and sceneries, voices and sound effects, I might just do my WW3 story into an online series.
But that's setting the aim a bit too high. We'll see how it turns out. So far though, it's looking pretty promising.
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camorus----234 In reply to Panzerfire [2013-04-22 20:40:40 +0000 UTC]
Like THE SOUND OF YOUR GRAND DESIGN but as u say a bit in the future so far! The camouflage sounds a good idea but what would u do with this camo?
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Panzerfire In reply to camorus----234 [2013-04-22 21:49:51 +0000 UTC]
Well, just move it around along with thepart that's being animated. Say, if a soldier moves and extends his arm, the camouflage pattern on it will move as well and accordingly.
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Panzerfire In reply to mdc01957 [2013-04-22 20:14:30 +0000 UTC]
Well cheers. This is a very simple work still. Wait until I start the whole rotating of the face.
If I just sit enough time on After Effects, there's really no limit to what I can do.
Well except for sounds. If I'm going to do large video animations, I'll have to start recruiting some people to help me with the voices and the sound.
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Panzerfire In reply to mdc01957 [2013-04-22 23:28:13 +0000 UTC]
Well, haven't quite sat down to do it yet but the next step is learning how I can add some textures to the shapes and see how these can be animated as well when so needed. This way I can start adding camouflage patterns to the clothing of the characters I animated. Hair as well as dirt and scrap textures.
Then comes applying shadows and light effects that can also be animated.
Finally, I want to try making the whole head rotate at the same time the face is making various expressions
All this is of course to practice and establish some tecniques that I will be using later on for more serious animations.
No plans yet for one big animation project but I may start thinking on a few ideas soon.
Right now 'though I'm focusing my effort on finishing a commision that is long overdue.
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mdc01957 In reply to Panzerfire [2013-04-23 08:20:22 +0000 UTC]
Well, good luck at any rate!
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kyuzoaoi [2013-04-19 16:23:55 +0000 UTC]
Kahoru is alive!
Hire Megumi Toyoguchi to voice her...
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Panzerfire In reply to kyuzoaoi [2013-04-22 20:02:46 +0000 UTC]
Hehe, if I could afford her, Kahoru's circle of badassery would be complete.
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Panzerfire In reply to Ronin201 [2013-04-22 20:03:56 +0000 UTC]
Wait for it, I'm developing the technology to enable her to come out of the computer screen........ only to stab the viewer with her bayonet. O_O
Fun times coming.
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Ronin201 In reply to Panzerfire [2013-04-22 20:22:12 +0000 UTC]
lol be careful, that kind of power may be too powerful for one man to control
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Panzerfire In reply to Ronin201 [2013-04-22 20:46:54 +0000 UTC]
True that. The Porn industry would kill for that kind of technology.
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