Clayster, that looks awesome! I think you are onto something here.. I was thinking myself that the Ghost Busters theme would be ripe for spoofing, but you beat me to it! (You'll do a better job on the special effects anyway!)

How did you create the ghost? it didn't look like anything from Muvizu, but it was animated...

Man, you keep adding to the list of tutorials you need to make!

(Great job! Keep 'em coming!)

This is a good example of how companies like Muvizu tend to come up with changes to the program that are better than what the users were asking for. For example, I'd imagine that for years people have been asking for more predefined character actions.

If they went that route, time spent developing a new action would yield exactly that: one new action. It would be impossible to implement every new action that users could request.

But now, the time spent developing keyframes has basically given us a way to create ANY ACTION WE CAN IMAGINE! Even a pooping horse! Who could possibly ask for more than that? ;-)

Man, we need a contest to see who can come up with the most awesome keyframed animation... although, I think it's going to be tough to beat Clayster's submission!

Clayster, that was awesome! I loved the keyframe animation in the horse and the crowing rooster! It's a really good match with the MUVIZU look due to the way you modelled the characters!

How did you do the circling eagle? Same way?

On a different note, I liked the miscellaneous little touches you added throughout:

1) Recurring theme of the sleeping snoring dude

2) the way you set the viewer's anticipation with the squirrel getting the nut references, then threw us a curve right at the end with a literal interpretation

3) I liked the way you used the horse as an ambient character, not really doing anything except making the scene look more "westerny"

4) naturally, a little unexpected horse poop is usually good for a smile or two

I'm very impressed... since the keyframe pack was introduced, I don't remember seeing anybody else use it to create claymation style movement in static characters! You've broken new ground here, and set the stage for a lot more of the same, now that we all see what can be done with keyframes!

theotherguy wrote:

the standard Muvizu character movements can't be keyframed. Just about everything else can, however.

I think all of the current dialogs here (in which people are animating with keyframes ) involve static characters that they've created or downloaded from the web, broken into animatable pieces, then painstakingly keyframed the individual pieces to get the animation they want.

Although you can't keyframe the Muvizu characters outright, what you CAN do is model your own arm with a pointing finger at the end, and keyframe it. If you use closeups of the arm or position the character so its own arm is hidden, you can make some convincing moves.

That's basically how Clayster made his Luke Skywalker raise binoculars to his face. That move isn't supported by Muvizu's standard movements, so he framed the scene so that Lukes arms weren't shown, and keyframed a free floating set of binoculars (with attached modelled hand) and used keyframes to move into position. Pretty slick!

You could use something along those lines for your pointing
(But... isn't pointing one of the standard moves built into the characters?)
edited by PatMarrNC on 30/03/2016

clayster2012 wrote:


That would be totally your call, Clayster. Much as I'd like to say "go for it" I also know that everybody already has plenty to do ... for example, you are very busy with your star wars spoof animations, and that takes time. If you ever have a bunch of free time that you don't know how to use, I'm sure lots of people would like to see such a tutorial... but I don't think you should let it steal time from your star wars spoofs.

Clayster, I think it's cool that you've figured out a way to animate your models in the Muvizu environment using keyframes... if you ever have time to describe what you're doing I'd love to hear the details

Great work clayster, like how you are animating seperate parts, like how you animated the guy looking through the binoculars too!

Keep going, your work is great!

artpen

Clayster, I think it's cool that you've figured out a way to animate your models in the Muvizu environment using keyframes... if you ever have time to describe what you're doing I'd love to hear the details

I like that MFalcon model, very well done. Where did you get them from?

Is that fine little ****-house with the heart to find anywhere, please ?
Such things are always nice to have in the "utilities" drawer :- ))