The Bear Woods Project

[lawnmower70]

Here is the animation for animestudiotutor.com contest for may. I had a lot of fun doing this one, and am very happy with the results. I actually went out and recorded sound for this one as well. (The foot steps, abmient sound, talking....Not the bear haha). Although some of the animation I could be happier with, I was extremely happy with how well the background turned out. And learned the importance of rendering into a picture and importing that, instead of letting the program draw each individual leaf. (learned after it crashed the program trying to display it).

Thank you for watching!

[slowtiger]

That background is incredibly well done! All in AS?

[lawnmower70]

Yes, all in AS. A lot of copy/pasting going on there. I started to fill in the whole (what I called "way back") back ground with leaves (different colors and some with shading turned on, and in different settings). And it got to be too much and crashed the program at about 3/4 of it covered. So I just exported it as a .png, and it worked out great.

Thank you for the compliment, coming from you that means a lot!

[GCharb]

Loved it, very funny, also loved the BG, good work!

[Little Yamori]

Nice work, funny. You did great with giving the trees all that dimension and detail.

LY

[lawnmower70]

Thanks for the replies guys!

[Danimal]

This looks incredible and has a funny punchline. Getting to the bottom of legends, haha.

The only thing that stood out was the occasional static that would appear. I was dying to hear some kind of accompanying sound effect. Other than that, outstanding!

[lawnmower70]

Thank you Danimal!

I guess I was going for the "pieced together" look for the "found footage" which is why I put the static in there. I didn't really know how to make it look like a bad tape (you remember when a vhs would go bad, and the machine would start "tracking" and make it look all crazy), so I put in the static with a couple faded black bars. I thought about putting the sound of static in there, but to me that would have seemed like changing channels. I guess I'm dating myself a bit, TV's don't make that noise when changing channels anymore....growing up, I usually had to skip a couple "dead" channels to get to one that came in over the air.

Again, thank you all for the compliments. I love animating and working with AS, only wish I would have stuck with this sort of thing when I was younger. But no use in dwelling on the past. Hopefully I can come up with some good ideas to keep this passion going strong.

Take Care
Mike