Jungle pan animation test

realsnake · Post by **realsnake** » Fri May 08, 2009 10:30 am

Jungle Pan animation

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KrySEmoqLo

Mikdog · Post by **Mikdog** » Fri May 08, 2009 11:27 am

Nice enough but you could try place some of the logs on different planes so that when you pan across it looks semi 3D. You know how to do that? Really simple. Put some of the closest logs on their own layer, then change the Z value in the translate layer from 0 to something like 0.5. That will push them out to the front a bit, so when you use the orbit view in 3D you can see what's happening. When you animate the camera panning across you'll see that the foreground logs have grown bigger and they move faster than the logs (stumps I mean) behind them, creating this cool multi-plane effect.

As a total random piece of information I was reading how Disney was the first studio to invent the multiplane idea and as far as I know they invented a special camera to shoot multi-plane stuff to simulate different planes to get that 3D effect. Nice.

mkelley · Post by **mkelley** » Fri May 08, 2009 12:24 pm

Like this?

http://vimeo.com/4544074

Mikdog · Post by **Mikdog** » Fri May 08, 2009 1:12 pm

NICE!

You're fast

Exactamundo. See the multi-layered planes realsnake? Adds really nice depth, and you can add it pretty easily with the setup you currently have in your jungle pan.

Let this be a lesson to all of us doing pans! It can look real nice.

(Your style mkelly almost reminds me of Tintin backgrounds. The colours and the line weight and look. Love Tintin. Heard there's a TINTIN mocap movie being directed by Steven Spielberg, or Peter Jackson, can't quite remember. THAT should be awesome.)

realsnake · Post by **realsnake** » Fri May 08, 2009 1:31 pm

That was just a quick test. hmm, maybe I should have used the multi-plane

mkelley · Post by **mkelley** » Fri May 08, 2009 2:04 pm

Realsnake,

In no way was this a disrespect to your post -- I was merely illustrating what Mikdog was mentioning so that folks who don't know about it could see what he was talking about. I happened to have a woods set from our show that, after duplicating some layers, was easy to use for this purpose (in our show we didn't pan around the set so it wasn't set up for this kind of thing but we did have our characters walk through different layers so it was setup for background, middle ground, and foreground. As a very general rule most of the sets I build are this way but not for panning purposes).

And thanks for the kind words, Mikdog.

realsnake · Post by **realsnake** » Fri May 08, 2009 6:12 pm

Mkelly, Thanks for the comment,

I think I'm learning it pretty fast, the western way.

realsnake · Post by **realsnake** » Sat May 09, 2009 1:38 am

and Mkelly in feature request forum I didn't mean to disrespect..... anyone when i said 'and I hope its too late for that'.
I just couldn't find the right words in eng. and i said what was already in my mind.

jackismyazz · Post by **jackismyazz** » Sun May 10, 2009 4:31 am

how come u call it a jungle while all the trees are gone

jahnocli · Post by **jahnocli** » Sun May 10, 2009 10:10 am

Global warming

Durand · Post by **Durand** » Mon May 11, 2009 2:07 am

Real(fake)snake, You must be joking if you're serious about that. Or did I just waste ten seconds of my life.....again!

Post by **Víctor Paredes** » Mon May 11, 2009 3:23 am

Durand wrote:Real(fake)snake, You must be joking if you're serious about that. Or did I just waste ten seconds of my life.....again!

well... you wasted ten seconds more writing that. One of the things I like about this forum is the respect all here have for pros and beginners. I know the pan of realsnake is not very fancy, but this forum is about help each other. I have learned a lot animating in this last three or more years. Most of this learning have came from this forum feedback. My first animations posted here were very bad, and even then people help me (just like Mikdog and Mkelley are helping realsnake with the multiplane idea).
I know sometimes we hate some animations showed here, it's normal. But if you have nothing productive to say, just don't use hurtful words. There are people behind the avatars, most of they are ready to learn how to make better animations each time.
If your intention wasn't offend Realsnake, sorry for the misunderstanding, maybe my bad english make me jump when I shouldn't. I hope so.

Durand · Post by **Durand** » Mon May 11, 2009 4:30 am

Selgin, Geesh... so touchy. You can,t seriously believe realsnakes Jungle Pan is an honest attempt? I am amazed that that you fail to see through his faux naivety and the humour in my observation. Sorry for offering
my point of view.

realsnake · Post by **realsnake** » Mon May 11, 2009 4:31 am

Well this forum helped me improve too and I'm very thankful for that i never disliked anyones work even if its ten times better than mine whenever i see any good animation, I usually wonder will i ever be able to make something like that and only this thinking helps me improve a lot.
There are Good people and some rotten eggs on this forum same goes for every place & Yes! Duran you just wasted some of ur 'valuable' time just like me but there must be a reason.

Durand · Post by **Durand** » Mon May 11, 2009 4:39 am

Sorry..Sorry...Sorry... I must be in a different universe or something. I,m sure there is an elementary landscape multiplane pan in the tutorials in ASP. No... I must be dreaming.