I've been rather busy working on some movies to illustrate some of the different animals from Metazoica. Some you may have seen before. A couple of these are rather old, and I just redid them and added a few new touches to them. They took forever to make!! A movie of 20 seconds takes more than 100 frames. Then I added sound and some action. Getting the right moves was the tough part! I had to make it look and feel just like you were actually looking at the animals moving about in the wild. I still think my animation techniques need some work, but this is just a set of basic screen-tests. These are just samples of some of the animals I will be displaying in the new and improved Metazoic site. However, then the animation will be much better, because the person who will be creating the movies will be using a 3D style animation program. I cannot wait for that either. But these screen tests will give you an idea of what is to come. I've done 3 so far. They are Deinognathus, Carnodorcas and Leptonosoma. The Deinognathus looks rather primitive, because these drawings were originally done in 2004. Before I settled on the modern look of the animal. So, pay no mind to it. That video used to be presented on my Metazoic website in flash style. But this one is much better! Anyway, hope you like these.
And yes, I did do each frame individually all by myself, and I put them together all by myself, and added the sound, all done by me. If you'd like to know how I did it, I did each frame in Paint Shop Pro, and put them together in Windows Movie Maker. I got the sounds from Sounddogs.com. It's not really hard if you know all the tricks to animation it's self.
11 comments:
Cool! Do a Pterdraco movie next!
I'll try.
Hi. I love the videos. As said before, I'm a big fan of your website. I was wandering if your friend metalraptor was available. You see in my project walking with the future on the SE forum, I have an extinction event, caused by volcanic activity, and I'm not sure which animals would be most plausible to take over the Earth, or at least whether the ones I already have are plausible or not. I heard that canis got information from metalraptor for his simulation of a permian mass extinction scale event happening again. In my project, 75 million years after man, a massive extinction, slightly bigger than the permian extinction occurs and wipes out many life forms. I heard metalraptors an expert on this kind of stuff, so would it be ok if you could let me contact him?
I haven't heard from him in quite a long time. But I know he still gets these comments (if he still has the same e-mail address). If he sees this, maybe he can tell you how to get in contact with him. Yes, he is great at these scenarios. He's very smart :)
Hey its me De, Cool movies....
Ohh by the way how did bats get the top flying niche in the Metazoic?
Glad you liked the movies.
As for bats, well, the development of stronger leg muscles, long tails, bigger brains, and the fact that most species roost in caves.
On that train of thought, have you ever imagined what a Metazoic animated film might be like? There's one idea that keeps sticking in my head. It's sort of a Metazoic Bambi/Land Before Time. The main character is young Tachypus racer and the villain is a giant Deinognathus.
I've thought of doing some feature-length animated movies. If my project becomes popular enough (and I get enough funding) I just might carry that out :)
Hi metazoica,what happened to you?Site has not been updated for ages and this blog too
Hi. I am sorry about the lack of attention to the site. More updates and blogs will be on their way very soon.
ok,i thought u ill or something like that,i know it,i am now very busy too
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