Swift 3D Animation Challenge!
Hello folks and welcome to our first ever animation contest.
If you are a regular reader of 'The Blue Streak' you'll notice that we have been focusing our attention on animation lately. Two of our latest threads improvise on how to rig a humanoid character and then animate a walkcycle with it and/or a run cycle. If you haven't read through them, or if you're not familiar with rigging and animating a humanoid character you can find them here (Its much easier than you may think!!!):
With the knowledge you gathered from the Rigging - Walk Cycle and Run Cycle blog reviews you can animate a humanoid in any fashion you desire.
Now, lets put your animation skills to the test!
Contest Details:
The object of this contest is to use a simple humanoid figure -only the humanoid figure and one prop- (Using either your own custom built humanoid or you can use the sample humanoid located here) and animate it doing an action of your choice. The action(s) could include making your humanoid character throwing a ball, climbing up a ladder, jumping over a boulder, running in circles, shadow boxing, etc.. The choice is yours, so feel free to do whatever action you like and be as creative as you want (please don't limit yourself to the actions suggested here).
Contest Rules (Please read carefully):
Entries must be made with Swift 3D (any version).
Submissions must be in the form of a basic html page containing: your Swift 3D Vector (.swf) animation, name, website address and email (Download template here).
Your .SWF movie must be 450x250 pixels in dimension with a preloader (Download template here).
Your animation must consist of ONLY one 3D Humanoid performing its action(s) and ONLY one 3D Prop (if needed) . Your animation cannot include any other elements other than your hunamoid and your one prop. Entries that have extra elements will be disqualified. Elements that can't be in your animation include: images, voice overs, etc. Example prop elements that can be in your entry include: Golf club, beer bottle, cane, kite, etc..
Sound FX are encouraged. (No voice overs please)
No environments. Solid color or gradient color backgrounds only.
All work must be original.
Be as creative as you can with your humanoid. Again, please don't limit yourself to the actions that were suggested on this page.
Your entries should be posted in this Blog thread titled: "Animation Contest Entry - Your entry link"
If you have questions concerning the rules please email jfoley@erain.com
Judging:
Our Judges will observe the following elements:
Animation!!! Humanoids that have a smooth, fluid motion. Jerkiness and/or animation errors will be counted against.
Animation Difficulty. The level of difficulty in animating your humanoid to do specific acts.
Creativity & Originality. Clever, thought-out, smart, funny, painfully funny, ingenius, wierd, dangerous, story line.. whatever qualities your movie holds!
Render quality. Single Color Fill with Outlines and Shadows are recommended. Raster Animations are not recommended.
Overall quality. Your entry should maintain a high level of professionalism.
Prizes:
First Place: Swift 3D v4 and Optimaze!
Second Place: Swift 3D v4
Anyone with a qualifying entry will recieve a complimetary collection of high quality Swift 3D Models. (Model examples coming soon.)
Animation Contest Entry - http://www.henkvisser.nl/animations/
Here's my first. it combines two techniques: the one in your examples and lathe morphing (belly, breasts and hair).
thnks guys.october will give me some more time to make some more. meanwhile I'm very curious about what will show up here. Sioux maybe to inspire you : i put some hint in the other thread on SD (don't get too nuts).
Thats gotta be the most basic humanoid I've even seen. Non-the-less, it has human characteristics. Nice theme btw, its cool to make the little dude dance. Reminds me of myself when I'm doing flips n stuff ;-)
Sorry David but your entry doesn't qualify as a 'Humanoid' animation. Your entry must be of a 'human-like' character performing a specific task or doing a skit.
For david m.
i know yours didn't qualify for the contest but i want to say that you made a pretty nice piece of surrealism animation really crazy stuff.you should expand your boundaries in that area.
We are about to submit our contest piece. Since the SWF file is a bit large and I was wondering if we could put the contest file to erain's server like some of the entries did?
Alright!!! I like a lot of the entries... The competition is getting really good... Can't stay behind...
here is my last one... http://www.neeshal.com/marcosm/thehurt.htm
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