February '09 Challenge - Stickman's Day Out

pixelgeek · February 2, 2009, 1:46am

Inspired by EvilKillerFiggin, this month’s challenge is a Stickman animation. You don’t have to be as fancy as EvilKillerFiggin. You might want to try something more like Genete’s walking man -

It’s Stickman’s Day Out. What will he get up to? Show us!

Chris

Gerco · February 3, 2009, 10:42am

You mean something like this (not mine)?

youtube.com/watch?v=adV6bajoaz8

G.

pixelgeek · February 5, 2009, 4:12am

I was thinking more like youtube.com/watch?v=El-282S5xng
But if it’s got a stickman in it, it’s good.

Chris

Genete · February 5, 2009, 5:54pm

Now nobody can say that this challenge is difficult.

-G

GESticky.sifz (2.41 KB)

Genete · February 9, 2009, 11:10pm

This is my entry… I almost loose my head doing it!

mediafire.com/?yibmdjix4bp (OGG compressed 73KB)
mediafire.com/?gwly9f95gvo (AVI high quality 1,7MB)

Enjoy!
-G

Gerco · February 9, 2009, 11:39pm

Funny!

G.

pixelgeek · February 10, 2009, 2:59am

Classic!

And congratulations on finding a format that VLC can’t play! (the avi version)

Chris

Genete · February 10, 2009, 6:09am

Doh!
Try this: mediafire.com/?rniyglgm1k0

-G

Animtim · February 11, 2009, 2:16pm

Simple and funny, well done!
(Same as Pixelgeek I couldn’t read the first avi, the second works… for info which codec did you use for the first one?)

Genete · February 11, 2009, 2:50pm

Thanks.
Ye I cannot open it with VCL but Totem and Mplayer open it nicely. The video info is this:

I created it just by opening the image sequence in Avidemux and save it to avi without any code change (just COPY) so it created a PNG codec for the movie.

-G

pixelgeek · February 15, 2009, 9:27pm

This is what I have so far - took me waaaaay tooo long…

KonstantinDmitriev · February 20, 2009, 4:37pm

Very funny!
Source please?

My entry:
youtube.com/watch?v=rJ3eoMAHRS4

It is a part of the Morevna Scene 20 animatic. With keyframe drafts it looks more sane - youtube.com/watch?v=cXcGrWpAuwM.

Source:20.zip (137 KB)

Genete · February 23, 2009, 8:58am

Sure!
-G
headless.sifz (5.4 KB)

Gerco · February 23, 2009, 1:02pm

So, how long did this take you? I’m trying to create a half way decent walkcycle, but even for a stickman it takes for ever…

I tried to use the template you posted. However, exported values are not shown in the curves panel and the the values are not properly updated when changing the time… I guess there are still some bugs that need to be fixed…

G.

Genete · February 23, 2009, 3:01pm

Try to use the Groups feature to select all the rotations at the same time. It helps a lot. The rotation layer is quite buggy on refresh ducks. I had to press repeatedly the refresh button to see the rotation ducks properly placed.

It took me about 30 minutes to do it.
-G

KonstantinDmitriev · February 23, 2009, 3:51pm

Gerco:
Yes, check the Groups panel! Two more templates:
download.tuxfamily.org/morevna/b … ckman.sifz
download.tuxfamily.org/morevna/b … imple.sifz

Gerco · February 28, 2009, 12:30am

My entry for the february challenge, just in time…

youtube.com/watch?v=UNZivT5vwXg

Thanks to Genete and Zelgadis for the camera- and particles templates, and the lightning effect.

G.

Genete · February 28, 2009, 12:34am

Cool!
Did you reuse my lighting animation or was it completely new?.
Poor stickman!
-G

Gerco · February 28, 2009, 12:41am

I reused yours with some rotation, duplication, and stretching…

G.

pixelgeek · February 28, 2009, 11:24pm

Poor stickman. He’s had a whole month to get up, and he’s not even got the car out of the garage…