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And so it begins...




...And so it ends

Heya, I just finished animating this PLEASE watch and vote/rate it, then pass it on to a friend Thankyou! Nile
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02k7PKpDNUE

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Behold The begingings of my Clay Model that i will animate to enter the Download Festival : Walk the dog Competition '07

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omg, you actually have such an expensive iron skeleton to make puppets like that? cool... make sure you post the video when it is done....

Looks cool
and yeah.. post videos when its done

Wow, can't wait to see that to be honest, I'd never do that because I think it just takes to long frame by frame .

Great .!

@ cookie

Yeah set me back as much as the normal festival ticket would

took me 4 hours to build it too

I might change some bits still though, and also try to make somne joints myself, i was thinking a T with ball bearings on each end

Also @cookie

You wait till I hastily build my animation set table , will be immense.... hopefully the good kind
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The competition is tough this year now

I aim to do 2 or 3 '30 second shorts' to advertise the festival with the dog closing date is may 11th too so not much time either

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Originally posted by aNILEator
closing date is may 11th too so not much time either

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lol i like the dog and your hair

Looks great, can't wait.

Good luck

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* vaccination waits for the final thing.

Good luck

By the looks of things, the dogs/cats/things eye's are actually imprints of your own...

but yeah, good luck with everything

Nile and his crazy projects. I still love Blue Tac Jack

awwww the nostalgic beginnings with blue tack jack

this month is going to be insanely busy

Gotta finish (and start) compiling a portfolio by wednesday 18th for uni interview thankfully I have a DVD of everything from my last (decent) project the music video one so no show reel needed really......

Oh by the way i got a Merit & Distinction for the music video
(merit for sketchbook, Distinction for video)
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For those interested I've ditched the cling film and instead had a brain wave and instead have heat shrink cable wrapped the model (well one leg at the moment going to see how it fairs up)

heat shrink cable is used in electrical stuff to wrap around wires it's loose then you heat it up and it shrinks around the cables/wires or in my case armature

Heat shrunken tubbing will become much less flexible. Though the degree depends on the thickness of course. It also isn't very cheap though and isn't available in very large sizes unless you pay a hell of a lot (thinking about the body of the dog itself).

It is also extremely hard to apply to stuff like the ears and all. eg: you wont be able to cut the tubes either, or even make a hole in it as that would render the shrinking useless; it must stay as a complete tube shape (hard to explain, but you know what I mean when you tried it)...

Anyways, it could indeed give it a real smooth look on the parts where it could be applied I guess...


Another material you could use is, and which is used to make real puppets, is a kind of foam. I dunno the proper English term (I think it is polyfoam) but it is similar to what is sometimes used as inlay in flightcases, but then in thin sheets. You can cut it any shape, glue it with normal hobby glue, or use a sewing machine, is paintable and is of course very flexible and extremely cheap.

Though you can't bring as much detail in it as with clay of course (hence it is mostly used for bigger models). But you could glue beats and other fabric or materials to make up your puppet... Though the smaller the puppet to more difficult of course.

Then there is the ultimate latex foam sculptures, but that requires making molds first and stuff. Though the big advantage is that you can twist and turn your model in any position without the surface being disturbed (like with clay) but while keeping the smooth and highly detailed look of clay.

I love my clay too much to go latex

So far the shrink tubing is pretty good and still flexible

the joints are all tuned to give me flexibility and stability were needed anyway so some are tighter than others anyway.

I'll probably use the blue foam block stuff from college over his main body, i don't plan on moving it's main body too much so will probably only use 2 pieces of foam one for arse one for front so i can kinda bend the body around a bit.

I'm also wondering whether I should make a foam ball base for the head or not, i gotta think of time and stability really, the armature's main head and mouth movement isn't great for this particular job really because I'm using such a big cartoony head.

ALSO I WANNA RE-USE THE ARMATURE SO IT'S NOT A PERMANENT MODEL (....if I win the comp this might change with the monetary value )

I'd appreciate it if we could talk over messenger again cookie so that i can discuss some ideas and stuff with you

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Originally posted by aNILEator
Behold The begingings of my Clay Model...

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Originally posted by Volv

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Originally posted by aNILEator
Behold The begingings of my Clay Model...

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Wow, that clay model looks amazing! It looks like there's a real person behind that dog!

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Awesome!

Looks great so far
And as everyone has said, videos

It's nice

And your eyes looks like you was watching pr0n when you was making your dog ^^

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Originally posted by MX-G
And your eyes looks like you was watching pr0n when you was making your dog ^^

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oh, it looked like a kitty to me.. but i see it's a dog now. good luck!!!!

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Originally posted by MX-G
And your eyes looks like you was watching pr0n when you was making your dog ^^

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Originally posted by MX-G
It's nice

And your eyes looks like you was watching pr0n when you was making your dog ^^

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Originally posted by marissa
yeah...cause people watch porn like that.

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Posted a small development update with pics

Looks nice, comming along nicely, look forward to the finished product

It looks more like a dog now. Good job

Ok so i made it's body today, completely scrapped all my research with different covering materials as they all have their pros and cons, so i bit the bullet and just moulded the clay around the skeleton and it actually works really well...

Around the thin leg bits i applied some packing foam/polystyrene/sheet stuff and a piece of selotape

The body is a cork cut and angled, wrapped with the same packing sheet and taped around the skeleton

The head is not connected and i feel i might remove the armature's own head or neck and try my luck.

I've gone against creative my own bricks and stuff as it took too long and too many split and broken failed attempts, I'll just take a photo and print off sheet after sheet of bricks.

See some more photos.....

* aNILEator uploads photos to his space and will link shortly
Spaces is down



P.s. those are the tie down screws by the way, which is what I'll use to secure my model through the floor of my set.... when i build it

Looking very good Nile. I wish I had the time to enrol on a crazy project like yours

Spaces is still playing up so......



More photos (all so far) here

http://anileator.co.nr/dog/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVRyUzLMllk

Test animation also first time ever compressing with x264

Oh my God soo cooll!!

Good job! I wish I could do such things!

not bad for lying in bed in lots of pain with an ice pack on your back aye!

* aNILEator Loves his Sony HDR-SR1e camcorder

Looks cool so far
if thats a test
i wanna see the finished work

Keep it up

Really awsome . Again keep up the awsome work .

awesome

Yesterday I started on my sets.

Haha cool.

The that vid was good

and the sets look great, just like a wall o:

Who fancies an Animatic (Animated Storyboard)?

http://youtube.com/watch?v=zU1dkP5Z10s

http://anileator.co.nr/dog/

* Sunshine is lovin it!

But you already knew that

Naiceeee

YAY FOR NILE

* scott2010_h wishes he could do that.
I love the set and the dog

I hope to animate it tomorrow possibly do the sound too....

Love the graffitti on the wall that says "for sex call 701" or something like that, can't remember

I left my comments on the video..

This is going to be great... I feel it in my knie...

in you knee

Going to have a shower (lolz naked Nile!) some brekkie then get tweaking with light and start animating.

As opposed to last time, I'll be doing this all on my camcorder then exporting each Camera Angle/Scene/shot (you know all the footage from one camera angle) onto my comp, compiling it and seeing how to looks (eg no/minimal fluctuating light, smoothness etc)

Wish me luck ^_^

Best of luck!

First scene complete. Gotta do a bit of blue screen editing

If anyone can come up with a Photo background for this image i'd be grateful thanks


Edit 5 seconds in the bag

Sunshine has a kinda poorly rendered version of what I got so far that she could share with you.....

pester her for a bit, i gotta go out present an award

It's looking AMAZING Nile! Good luck, I think you have a seriously good chance of winning it .

just got back home, gotta go to bed now as hospital tomorrow morning gotta leave house at 6 AM

I really wanted to do some more animating and get it all done

FINISHED!!!!!!

Compressing and youtubing as we speak.....

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Originally posted by aNILEator
FINISHED!!!!!!

Compressing and youtubing as we speak.....

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Still trying to compress.... ¬_¬ fucking codecs not working

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Originally posted by aNILEator
Still trying to compress.... ¬_¬ fucking codecs not working

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02k7PKpDNUE



NOW GO BLOG IT LIKE HELL! DIGG ETC's

hahahaha hawtttt

nicely done nile

nice Nile

Very nice Nile!
I want more.

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Originally posted by aNILEator
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02k7PKpDNUE



NOW GO BLOG IT LIKE HELL! DIGG ETC's

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Loving it Nile, as always...sorry i couldn't stay up till you finished it..

Wow, super good . It's awsome .

@chris:

just worked it out, about 28 hours animating/editing

Wow that looks cool hehe, good job

Perfect stuff, love it.

Very cool . Like it.

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Originally posted by aNILEator
NOW GO BLOG IT LIKE HELL! DIGG ETC's

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I might be making another one, just for college work OR the download organizers will contact me asking for more ad's for more ££££


I did say i was willing to in the email i sent them

Yay! Awesome!

It's actually amazing Nile!

well it's not appeared on the download site gallery yet.... let's hope it's included in the judging......

@ absorbation as I subtly hinted on the comments on msgstuff, if i win, a competition for a VIP ticket COULD be at hand

HELL YEAH IT'S ON THE GALLERY AND THE COMP IS CLOSED!

I'm on first page

yay for Niles..! <3

Just saw the finished video on YouTube.... excellent work, and I watched it several times just to see the graphitti and other (almost) hidden things on the wall. That's fun...

Excellent i was waiting for your comment the most cookie

I added lots of little quirks:

• The wall is actually a photo from the side of the row of shops behind my house

• I also made little cigarettes that look amazing!

The graffiti (I decided not to put a plus logo in, although it did cross my mind):

• aNILEator Roolz (no doubt about it really )
• LoL M8! (General internet related pun)
• For Sex Call Me 07904... (My Real Mobile Phone Number obscured by posters )
• N.F.P my initials
• ORB used to be my old 'Tag/Street name' when i would 'tag' skateparks then some general crap that chav's would do really (this wouldn't really be known to very many people at all)

OTHER Trivia

• The posters (except download) were all cut out from NME magazine
• The Set was screwed down into a 'WorkMate' style carpentry bench
• Took ~28 hours to film and edit
• The Road was painted with VERY OLD Paint {left from my mum's art box} mixed with dirt (gave a great texture)
• I reshaped/re-modelled (basically fixed) the model twice and replaced it's eyes at least 4 times during the animation

lol, cool... and wanted to ask what some stuff meant, now you answered it ...


* CookieRevised dials 07904

EDIT... oh wait... for sex... /me puts horn down

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Originally posted by aNILEator
I also made little cigarettes that look amazing!

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Oh my god.. that is amazing! Well done! Congrats!

well the rest of my phone number is covered up by the posters


but if anyone has any clue about messenger features or my sites/blogs they'll soon find my number easily without doing whois etc

EDIT: See my previous post for some more trivia etc

EDIT 2: YAY I finally over-took the #1 viewed 'Download festival 2007' video in views

ME = 622 : Them =619


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UPDATE:

STILL NO FRICKING COMPETITION RESULTS

But! GOOD NEWS! I have a new video for you , this is me building my dog armature up, it's like those sped up drawings but instead i make the dog model/skeleton/armature

http://youtube.com/watch?v=Cc4XfH3WzME

lol, nice one.....

funny how you don't see anything developping up until the last few seconds


finiiiiiiiiished

I'm a runner up

still dunno who the winner is yet

Congrats!!!!!

 

  ring ring...yes that's Nile on the phone....  

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Originally posted by aNILEator
I'm a runner up

still dunno who the winner is yet

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Congrats Nile

I made it home desperate for a piss for an hour on the bus !!!!!


now to eat and drink water before going out on a pub crawl double celebration (friends 20th aswell)

WIIIIIIIIII

I think Nile is very happy   ringedingelinged me too to announce the happy news (too bad I was very busy with work)...

Anyways, heaps of congrats....

The fucking ozzy osbourne animation one instead

Seriously anything other than that one as winner, more people deserve it than him and the other people who worked on it, Can you even believe more than one person worked on that animation?!?!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4m6y6JJU68

I'm soooo pissed off their must be some internal politics going on with the judging somehow or something

Can't judge it... You need to be +18 to watch the video and I don't want to register an account on YouTube either.


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Originally posted by Sunshine
That's not fair, something that isn't appropriate for all ages won?

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That's not fair, something that isn't appropriate for all ages won?

If you've not got an acocunt you can still watch if embedded... like this

http://nile.zerogen.net/dog/comp.html

What do you win ?

wtf. Nile's is so much better o.O

ozzy one was so very low detail/quality.

Sorry to hear ;[

info@downloadfestival.co.uk

http://forums.downloadfestival.co.uk/tm.aspx?m=1698172&mpage=3&key=#
^ what the rankings are (or at least we presume) DAMN DODGY FORUM it's post 50 in that thread


complain if you want

runner up prize i think is 2 normal weekend tickets

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Originally posted by aNILEator
runner up prize i think is 2 normal weekend tickets

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ok seems well weird now.

The winner is being a bit gloaty. claiming that he had more views than me

http://forums.downloadfestival.co.uk/tm.aspx?m=16...ge=3&key=&#1717142

Your is actually very good mate... the Ozzy one was lame...but alas...

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Originally posted by CookieRevised
EDIT... oh wait... for sex... /me puts horn down

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Cookie did actually text me asking for sex by the way

@cookie : yeah ffs though I even provided a run down of what happens in the comments

LOL the guy is terrible, I just saw his other animation on youtube hahaha

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Huw2d2t6i1E

hehe who says I flag his video for deletion because ozzy osbourne music copyright

He cheated:

Just recieved this as a PM on youtube:

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That dude who won the download competition totally cheated,
this is the message he was sending out on myspace:

"""Once again, I call to you for views! Massive thanks to Jamie P for his bulletin, made me smile wider than anything else on myspace ever has (though I think the words 'intelligent' and 'handsome' are a little beneath me ).

Currently the counter seems to have frozen on 660, but I'm secretly hoping that Youtube has been so flooded that it can't cope with all the links from my page! I have no idea if the decision has been made already, but all we can do is keep hitting those buttons. I must've clicked a hundred times tonight, so as long as we're not being skanked we should overtake the other dude.

I wrote a song, it goes like this:

Copy address, open new window, paste, enter, click....
Copy address, open new window, paste, enter, click....
Copy address, open new window, paste, enter, click....
Copy address, open new window, paste, enter, click....
Copy address, open new window, paste, enter, click....

Gordon xxx"""

proof that no one even watched their video, they simply cheated by refreshin the page all the time. i think they should be disqualified personally. u so shudve won....

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I hope you've reported all this to whoever is in charge of that contest!

nothings ever fair anymore.

(blame the russians ).

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Originally posted by CookieRevised
I hope you've reported all this to whoever is in charge of that contest!

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Well just got home really and slept alot.

When I got there I went to collect my tickets from the Walk The Dog Competition (which was 2 normal weekend) when I collected the envelope I opened them and I had 4 tickets in there! (2 extra)

Thinking possibly Nokia gave them my winnings too so i got it all in one we set up camp etc and attempted to sleep

Went for a walk about 9:30 and Nokia rang me asking to meet at entrance, I met Nokia rep at 10AM proved I was Nile Plumb rang my mobile phone as well, she gave me an envelope as well, It was quite lumpy so I opened it straight away (thinking oh cool I might have some mobile phone related thing in there) I was expecting to see 2 normal weekend tickets but inside were 2 weekend wristbands AND 2 V.I.P. wristbands! The grand prize was only for 2 VIP so I got better than the winner!

so I won 8 entrances to the festival and got to go around VIP area (not backstage just a bar/restaurant in the exhibition centre) which was slightly cheaper beer (pay with cash instead of tokens too!) but otherwise packed out with other people and very very dark, not amazingly VIP feel to it either but still got to go there

...as for the festival well. It Rocked, it rocked hard. probably the best one I've been to and Iron Maiden did the best performance I've ever seen them do as well.

Totally cool to hear you had a great time, and got more prizes than the actuall "winner" of the contest... lol...

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Originally posted by aNILEator

...as for the festival well. It Rocked, it rocked hard. probably the best one I've been to and Iron Maiden did the best performance I've ever seen them do as well.

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Glad you had a good time

Well no one could come at such short notice really

•I sold (receiving money later on) 2 of the Dog Comp ones to local friends
•I swapped over to VIP wristband and gave one to friend to share with rest of group
•My Cousin and her Fiancé came on Saturday+Sunday so got the 2 normal Nokia Wristbands
•I gave dad my weekend wristband on Sunday
•Sold the 2 remaining weekend tickets and Dad's day ticket for £75 the lot to a tout

At least you had a good time, and got more out of it than you should of had . Are they going to use the video on TV when the highlights are on?

no videos got used at all

doubt will be on TV either