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Here are my latest two adverts for Sollatek electrical products - in this case a voltage stabiliser and an uninterruptible power supply. They're showing on TV in Kenya, and they are made with ASPro 5.6

The subject matter sounds dry, but the ads are fun - take a look:

Sollatek SVS

Sollatek UPS

Great work

Nice use of bones in the hair in both cases. Poor lady's getting nailed all the time.

Care to share how you achieved the 3D look? I remember viewing your carrot character - just a flat shape with the eyes and mouth in a curved path to simulate 3D. Similar?

Sounds like a South African narrator.

Really nicely done. Especially the bit where she staggers around in the first one after being zapped. Great!

Mikdog wrote:Great work

Nice use of bones in the hair in both cases. Poor lady's getting nailed all the time.

Care to share how you achieved the 3D look? I remember viewing your carrot character - just a flat shape with the eyes and mouth in a curved path to simulate 3D. Similar?

Sounds like a South African narrator.

Yes, poor lady - she'd better stay away from electrical equipment.

The carrot character wasn't mine, actually, but I remember it too. I like to use an actual 3D object for the head and nose, then animate the features on 2D layers positioned around the face. I used Wings3D for the modelling, and ASPro itself for the texture mapping of the hair.

The great thing about a 3D head is that you can make actions for any expressions, lip sync, eye blinks etc. and they will work at any angle - well, not all the way to profile, but enough to give a nice lively movement to the acting.

The morphing techniques for animating head turns are fascinating, and they give a truer 2D look, but there is a problem with adding expressions and mouth movements and still keeping the freedom of movement in the head.