RoadRaisins is a short film by second year 3D animation students. The film was made with blender 2.5x.
Benjamin Lindquist writes:
This animation is made mostly by three second year students (including me) at Metropolia University of Applied Sciences. We also had some contributions from two other students from our class. This short animation was our first bigger project at our school and it started during autumn last year. However we did most of the work between december 2010 and may 2011. Our final deadline was 20.5.2011 and we barely made it. Some tweaks here and there could have taken place but all in all we were quite happy with the final result. My involvement in this project includes modeling, texturing, rigging, animating as well as all the lighting, shading and compositing.
19 Comments
hahahahaah that was fantastic animation. there are some issues in the face expressions. but i think it turned really awesome. and the story was wow crazy. i would be very upset in a situation like that. i love that it was made with Blender 2.57
nice work
liked it so much. Specially the lighting and recreation of the sunny/farmy ambient and inside the bus.
For the animation side, you succeeded on turning limitations in something that gives uniqueness (in a good sense) to your movie.
Cute work, based on what in English is known as a "shaggy dog" story. Given its constraints as a student project, well done.
Some render faults with the exteriors, a little difficulty with the hand-to-hand and hand-to-mouth animation, but still well done.
Keeping working on rigging, animation, and particles, guys. :) Even PIXAR had earliest days, when its short films were not much better than yours.
A few animation issues are easily overlooked when you tell an awesome story. I was well hooked by the time you got to the reveal at the end. Very nicely done.
very unbelievable animation...a great expressions of a face..
But it still a very awesome things for me..
And I love also the story,,
funny with a crazy story..
Nice one..
Really nice dude!
Loving it.
I do not understand the video. Is it humorous? I do not understand the end. What it is meaning?
Sorry I am from Spain... Perhaps i'm loosing something. :-(
Nice project, a bit short but well it's funny !
I really like the textures, lighting and compositing are good, however the animation is not really fluid
and some mesh are not smooth enough..
Congrat to the team !
@e1000i
It's seems the granny just likes the chocolate, so the sucks it off the raisins, then gives the 'pure' raisins to the driver. But why does she remove her false teeth to do that? :)
The animation is pretty good. Pleasant to watch.
But why is the steering wheel low-poly? :)
Extraordinary fun! Especially I'm proud it's made in Finland! Good work guys!
Great work, Very funny ... and a bit disgusting ! AhAh !
Same remark about the low poly steering wheel...
Thanks Pawel i catch it ;-)
I was intrigued by the little movement up and down and the little sound "grrr". I was thinking that the raisins returned to the "original state" by a word that can't write here ( put here too much smilies ) !!!
Very impressive when compared with what I'm used to seeing out of second year students. I assume your group had some prior 3D experience?
Taivas varjele :) Loistavaa työtä.
The weakest part of this animation is... well, animation (and rigging) :(. Models, textures, lightning, rendering etc. - all that is really nice, except animation which is devoid of any details (or, in different words: is too simple) - especially facial expressions. But still quite a pleasant work.
Thanks everybody for the comments and critiques!
@jwrl:
“Some render faults with the exteriors, a little difficulty with the hand-to-hand and hand-to-mouth animation, but still well done.”
You’re completely right there. The exterior scenes were rendered just before the deadline and everything in them from modelling to compositing are made by me so the glitches are completely my fault on those parts.
The character animation parts that you mentioned are partly due to some limitations of our rig. The rigger didn’t have time to finish it completely before he left so there were some bugs that we had to bypass resulting in some awkward animation from time to time. Some of the awkwardness is ofcourse also due to our lack of skill, but all of your critiques help us improve.
@e1000i:
“I do not understand the video. Is it humorous? I do not understand the end. What it is meaning?”
Our idea was actually that the old lady had a hard time chewing with her false teeth and also didn’t want the raisins so she would only suck the chocolate off the chocolate raisins. Not to let the raisins go to waste she offers them to the busdriver. She isn’t mean, she’s just a bit goofy. :)
@Pawel:
“But why does she remove her false teeth to do that? :)
The animation is pretty good. Pleasant to watch.
But why is the steering wheel low-poly? :) ”
More sucking power i guess? Nah, we thought it’d be clearer to the viewer that she was unable to chew very well. So her taking the false teeth out would underline that.
The steering wheel actually has a subdiv of 2 iterations but my buddy modeled it to be kinda angular. Stylistic decision I guess. :)
@Tuuba:
“Extraordinary fun! Especially I’m proud it’s made in Finland! Good work guys!”
Hehe thanks! I guess you found the hints to finnish origin from other things than the credits?
@Nicholas Rishel…
“Very impressive when compared with what I’m used to seeing out of second year students. I assume your group had some prior 3D experience?”
Thank you! Yeah well our rigger had previous experience but he left the group. (He also made most of the granny model) Of the final 3 that finished the movie Niko Torkkel, Anniina Pykäri and me, I was the only one with previous experience of Blender. That’s why I only did 2 of the interior shot character animations and the rest of the character animations were made by Niko and Anniina while I concentrated on other things. I was responsible for a lot of modeling and texturing, all technical stuff, shading, lighting, compositing etc. The credits enlightens additionally on all the different roles if you’re interested.
@K3
“Taivas varjele :) Loistavaa työtä.”
For all you non finns out there this translates roughly to “Good heavens :) Great work.”
Thank you!
@kacper
“The weakest part of this animation is… well, animation (and rigging) :(. Models, textures, lightning, rendering etc. – all that is really nice, except animation which is devoid of any details (or, in different words: is too simple) – especially facial expressions. But still quite a pleasant work.”
I couldn’t unfortunately agree with you on this regarding the whole short movie without sounding like a complete douche since I did very little of the animating. But looking at the shots I animated I completely agree with you as they clearly need more work. But as always there is room to improve on all parts. I’m just happy we even got this result before the deadline.
C&C is always welcome!
Thanks.
Ben
PS. Our blenderartists thread with additional info and images can be found in the finished projects section if you guys are interested. I can't link it here for the spam filter.
aaaaaaaa..... the raisins was from.... aaaaa....... :D nice one! keep it up!