By FalkM.
FalkM writes:
Inspired by a thread on CGTALK, I tried to make an animated Shortfilm in a very short amount of time from scratch.
It was scripted, storyboarded, designed, build, animated, rendered, composited and edited in a couple of days in my freetime on one Computer. It's completely made in BLENDER and rendered with CYCLES on GPU.
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Cute. Heads on pikes, and the little cigar. Nice touch. Funny. :)
cool! cute characters and woah cuboid hero haha I like it :)
Wow! Great work!
Great work :D
wow. I`m wondering about the render time. How many hour did that take? Cool work :)
This would've been quite an accomplishment if it was done in 3 weeks. This little short has something that's lacking in a lot of professional animations: appeal and creativity. Great job!
I found amount of details and efficiency have been very well balanced. Very nice peace of work!
Hope to see more like this :-)
Sweet! Though it looked more like a trailer than a short imho.
It would probably take me a month to create it tbh, so hats off to you Mr. FalkM!
It is supposed to be a trailer not a short. The original thread on cgtalk was inspired by someone asking if it was possible to make a cinematic trailer in 3 days,
http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?f=2&t=1032207&page=1
Initially it was intended to use premade Assets and Library files for this Challenge. But I wondered what one can do if he makes it from scratch. So Spheres and Tetrahedrons for me. ^_^ I really struggled how to call it. It looks too simple for a cinematic, begins like a short and ends like a trailer. In hindsight I think it is simply a teaser.
Next Animation will be longer.
Excellent! Gripping and funny at the same time. animation and story work in the short timespan.
Very inspiring.
Thank you.
Very good. I like that Clay-Style.
very cute!
very simply, but nice!
nice work for only 3 Day!
Very very nice!
Reminded me of the battle of Helm's Deep in LOTR, excellent work!
Wow ! Very fast, good job ! :P
Hahaha! Good job, dude! If you did this in just 3 days, I'd like to see what you'd produce in 3 months!
Could be made into a series!! Great work man!
I love the atmosphere and especially the epic shot of the evil leader with billowing cape on the rock ledge:) awesome work!
Awesome :) will it to be continued?
Interesting!! Loved the clay style and the way you told the story/shot selection. I would be very interested in seeing more!!
Damn those evil tetrahedrons!
Excellent work.
Hold on now, some of my best friends are tetras!
Loved what you did in 3 days! I'm curious what happens next! ;)
I am making some tea ,and I will watch it , sounds lovely .... hehehehe :)
True! "There is a hope"!
Cute, and funny! simple and with idea
When the story "to be continued..."?
Wonderful! Your technical achievement is worthy, but I'm blown away by how invested I am in the story and characters after just a one minute teaser. Well done (here's hoping you further develop the story).
How did you do it!?
WHAT HAPPENS NEXT!? PLEASE TELL ME THERE IS MORE!? Lol... great short. man. but seriously.
Cool!! I love it. So simple and so effective.
Great Fun. I appreciate the humor and subtle use of sarcasm, intended or not.
Paul
I like the Cube's gun, how did you make the muzzle-flash move like that?
Was it just a mesh that was keyed? particles? or something else
It's a sphere with displacement and F-Curve Noise Modifiers on the Scale X,Y,Z channels.
Perfect work! Loved it!
By the way, how did you animate the crowd of pyramids?
Coool!
This... this is hilarious. And awesome. And, please, if this took you 3 days, then won't you spend a few weeks on a full production? :)
Great, humoristic, and philosophically speaking geometric ^^
amazing work, really love it, make a movie from it and i will watch it in the cinema for real, never seen such a thing before.
keep it up
Friggin awesome
I like it very much. My favorite part is that it's the Blender Cube that will give us hope!
Where was Suzanne when all this was happening? Awesome work!
Awesome!
Wow , nice job !Every 3D artist know than 3days gone really fast for doing a entire project.
I love details like the bird in the tree did a poo ;)
Well done!
Just a question: Where we can find soundtrack and sounds effects free of charge?
Very very cute. The idea is really cool :) Hope to see more.
Nice, playful use of simple geometry, a story told in just a few seconds and the whole thing produced in only 3 days!. Makes me think of Edwin Abbot Abbot's book 'Flatland- A Romance of Many Dimensions' brought into 3D. If you don't know 'Flatland' it was written in the mid 1880's, it's relatively short and absolutely fantastic. Read it while Blender renders. Who wins?
Wow thank you so much guys!!!!
Answers to some questions:
I will definitely make more! Had so much fun working on this. I'm
currently brainstorming Ideas and write a script for the first episode.
It will be longer with a bit more detail and better animations.
Rendertime: It was rendered with cycles (besides some mist passes in BI)
and rendertime was 29 seconds on average and never exceedet 1 minute
per frame on a gtx 460 GPU. I can safely say without Cycles and the
viewport rendering it would not be possible to do this thing so fast.
Cycles NEVER crashed, had no artefacts, nothing. It simply worked. So
big thanks to the mighty Brecht.
Cube: The Cube Man at the end is indeed inspired by the poor Blender
Cube we all delete in a new scene. This time he's the Hero ^_^
Suzanne will absolutely have an appearance somewhere in the next
installment. Maybe as an Oracle or the like.
Again thanks to all of you. Never thought that someone would want to
watch this stuff.
I don't know, something about the hero just seems a little... flat.
Heeyooo!
Great job though, very interesting.. I know that font though. Can't remember the name of it.
Very good job and inspiring!
This would be a fun project for people to try once a month. A good exercise in project and time management! Maybe those interested could get together to pick a subject. Time limit for making the project. Min/Max length of animation. And then everyone go for it. Just for fun!
BTW. If you've only watched this once. Watch it again full screen. There are a lot of little details I missed the first time through. For instance the spheres flag bearers eyes. (I missed that one because I was laughing about the sphere with the binoculars!) What the bird in the tree does as the camera pans by. The apparent fear in the eyes of some of the spheres on the wall.
it brings a tear to me eyes *sniffle*
well done!
Amazing!!! Its very cool to see your work, and better, it will continue!
wow! this is so inspiring!
Nice work! Really entertaining. Loved it.
Super! - Made me smile. I's be interested in the following if you would be kind enough to share.
scripted, storyboarded, designed
These are the areas I struggle with. I've seen how the professionals do it but my efforts fall short and I'd be interested to see what other blenderheads produce for their shorts.
Cheers
TNS
And Arnold "Square Head" saves the world again from the evil pyramids...lol
Good work!
Subscribed to your channel waiting for more.
by the way. what role Ngons will have to that story?
+1
This is actually inspiring, with simple figures someone can make a viewable story ..Excellent..
Cool, loved it.