The Youssef Drawing Syllabus - Movement & Form - Kickstarter

Head over here for more info!

The Sketchbook, An Animated Short Film

Juanjo Guarnido in the freak kitchen - Kickstarter

Hyper Light Drifter Fan Animation

After seeing the Kickstarter for Hyper Light Drifter (and loving everything about it) I couldn't resist and had to animate something related to it.

This is my fan clip:

There's also a Vimeo link and the Quicktime file.

The main inspiration was this picture:

And I wanted to incorporate this set, which also has the spiders, and the little puff clouds when he runs, all seen here:

The flash speed run is also really neat, which I tried to replicate as closely as possible:

This is technically only the first half of what I wanted to do, but now I'm not sure if I will continue. As always, finding the time is tricky and I kinda like how it ends now. I started with the continuation, which you can see at the end of the last shot:

Regarding the music, the Kickstarter says that Disasterpeace will be doing the music for it so I was trying to find a track of his that would fit tempo wise. The track I chose is "Prologue" from "Rise of the Obsidian Interstellar".

Other than, the Drifter is a modified Norman, the spiders are modified Spiderbots.

Animation was all done in Maya, using one day for modding and planing and one day for animation.

I think that's about it!

[added]

Regarding the cape: it's a separate piece of geometry that I skinned to a few joints and the movement is keyframed:

The skirt is another separate piece of geometry that I wrapped deformed around the thighs.

As for a playblast, it's what you see in the above animated gif. The lamberts are set with incandescence all the way up. 

Mighty No. 9 Fan Animation

Mighty No. 9 Fan Animation from mechanical apple on Vimeo.

Love all the fan art from Mighty No. 9. There's still time to back the Kickstarter, if you haven't already.

Reference Reference Kickstarter

Le Gouffre - Animated Short Film

Cinefex Classic Collection

Get more info at the Kickstarter page here and more pics here!

Armature Nine

This Kickstarter is unfortunately already over but the idea is pretty cool!

DOGONAUTS - Enemy Line

Is that a John Williams score in the video? The clip is used to raise money, shouldn't they use music they own? I could be wrong about both...

C-Wars

That whole Kickstarter page for C-Wars is giving me a nerd boner!

There's a lot of cool material on the kickstarter page, lots of animated gifs and making-ofs:

The Reward - Tales of Alethrion

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