Simppa

For your walk cycle, look at walking videos. It seems to show no balance or shift in weight making him look a little stiff ^^;;

Thanks for your feedback, I'll try to fix that :)

Dwarve need thicker eye brows, shouldn't be hard to resize the model. Not sure what it'll do to that rig's skeleton though.

I will check that :) Thanks for the feedback mate!

Just tested, it works :)

Just finished my first, quite successful walk cycle :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T74s9y1Z9ns 

I'm not familiar at all with these processes, but I have a question..

Is it possible to overlay facial animations on IG footage (close-ups of an MC head)?

As far as I know; no. It might be possible to edit video clips of facial animations on in-game footage.... Can't tell for sure but I'm afraid you need to use animations if you want facial animationss on your characters.

Have you not heard? Im Grumpy Grandpa Hiebe aka Catfish Hunter. I have nothing positive to say!

(Looks good, dwarven clan battle animation please!)

I'll consider that :)

Its simmpa

It's still Simppa, not Simmpa...

I'd really prefer if you would leave some feedback instead of stating the obvious ;)

Greetings fellow Lords of the Craft!

I made this topic to show my Minecraft & Lord of the Craft related work. Showcase and fan art combined.

This is my third (3rd.) day of using blender and I'm hoping for constructive criticism and feedback of my completed and WIP (Work In Progress) animations and pictures.

I have a youtube channel where I do upload my test and completed animations, feel free to subsribe and leave comments. You can also comment those videos in this topic.

This is my first LotC related render, please tell me what you think.

If you absolutely want to, you can leave me ideas and requests of renders.

Rigs I use are made by VMComix

http://vmcomix.blogspot.ca/

Simmpa, that's incredible!!! I've heard animations take forever but you seem to have a knack with it. You should keep trying to push your limits in what you can do with it, and see how far you've made it in a week. :D That reminds me of the old trailer with animations man, it was SO beast.

Thanks mate :) These are just some test scenes after trying out something new with blender. Currently I'm trying to finish one full length (1min - 1min30sec) animation to push my current limits. :) I'll keep you posted, and feel free to subscribe that channel; I'm posting my renders and animations there.

When I do have enough skills to make full legth animations (I'm too harsh on myself when looking at my work :D) I might offer my "skills" to the media team.

EDIT: And my nickname is still Simppa, not Simmpa... Why did someone mistype my name in wiki :((

Are any of the ET talented with using Blender or any other program to make animations?

I asked earlier but got no response, are any Media Team members talented at animating with Blender/other rendering programs?

Nobody really answered my question, but here's a simple script idea for an animation/trailer in case we have a team that's up for the job:

 

Scene: A camera rolls over a sunrise where a Halfling character or two stand in a field, smiling (Have it pause on the characters, in bold fancy lettering write HALFLINGS). Peaceful music would probably play. The scene would darken a little and turn to a forest, where a big Orc is climbing out (pauses on the Orc, write out ORCS in fancy bold lettering) and marching hungrily towards the Halflings. Maybe he's brandishing an axe, or a bone club. Perhaps it could even be a small band of Orcs together. As the near the Halflings, arrows spring out from the forest they came from and kill a few of the Orcs, and the camera zooms in to show some Elves with bows (it pauses on them, saying ELVES in fancy bold lettering).

 

That's just something from the top of my head, imagine what a whole team could think up... Hopefully this got some ideas going!

Well, I'm not in the Media Team, but I am capable of doing some sorts of animations with blender. Still learning it, but at this rate I can make full length animations/trailers with blender quite soon :)

You can have a look of what I accomplished in two evenings from here: https://www.youtube.com/user/kurpo/videos

Oh dear God, not these again :|

Why?

Jack Sparrow = +1, so that equals to 6/10

I don't like GIFs as signatures

Out-Of-Character Information

What’s your Minecraft Account Name?: SimppaFIN
How old are you?: 23
What time-zone do you live in?: GMT+2/GMT+3 (summertime madness)

Have you ever roleplayed before - if you have, how?:  Define roleplaying? ;) Well, I have, right here in this server.
Have you been on any other roleplaying servers?: Yep, I'm one of the founding members of Lord of the Craft
Have you applied to this server before? (Please link past applications):  I was making this server, so kinda yes.

How did you hear about us?: Availer recruited me from minecraftforums.net
What do you think the server will be like?  Something like it has been in the past, just more evolved and different.
Have you read and agreed to the rules?:  Yes.
What’s your favourite rule / the rule you agree with the most?: The Roleplay-skin thing. Batman as a dwarf and Super Mario as an elf... Ewww

Definitions

What is roleplaying?: Depends on the situation. But in case of roleplaying here, it's something like inventing a character and his/her background and then playing and acting as you were him/her. Nuff said.

What’s metagaming?: I guess I cannot just paste a link here. Well... If you are character X, you cannot know something that character X doesn't know. In example: other players names in game just by looking at top of their heads.

What’s powergaming?: Using a powerful PC to play a game. People get jealous. Okay, for real it means that you roleplay in a way, that gives you ultimate POWAH over the other players. In example: you cannot roleplay like this: *Big Bad Wold blows once and the house of Three Little Pigs fall a part". You have to do it like this: *Big Bad Wold blows once and tries to get the house of Three Little Pigs falling a part".

In-Character Information

What’s your character called?: Mufasa The Lion King. Oops, did it again. For real: Yurrik Stoneheart

What race are they (and sub-race)?: Dwarf, a Cave Dwarf

What sex are they?: Male

How old are they?: 273 in human years, 39 seasons.

Give us a brief description of their life - their story, childhood, family (Include server lore when writing): Yurrik was born in middle of the King Simppa's reign in Kal'Urguan (my reign lol). His father died in a fight with a burglar, and his mom soon depressed and started being absent. That did leave scars in Yurrik's personality. He made a layer of stone around his heart, because he didn't want to get hurt so badly again. That layer did protect his heart from pain, but also protected him from feeling extremely good emotions like love and happiness.

Just after he became 16 seasons old young dwarf, he wandered out from his mother to explore the world around him. Well, the caves mostly. Years passed and Yurrik's mom passed out because lack of her son and husband. Yurrik finally found about the tragedy, and returned back from the wilderness. Now, the world is open before him, and the layer of stone seems only thickened during the years spend out in the wilderness..

What are they like (personality)?: Yurrik is cold person, who seems to care only about himself. He has a dark sense of humor and the world around him isn't very important. Survival at all cost is only thing that matters so far.

What are their ambitions?: To survive and finding rich veins of gold undergroud. Though he doesn't admit it, he eventually wants to settle down deep under ground with fellow dwarves.

Do they have any special skills?: He is good at digging (of course!) and surviving alone for long periods of time.

What are their weaknesses?: His cold personality. Somewhere hidden in his heart, there is a piece that isn't covered with a layer of stone. And when it does get it, it hurts badly.

Give us a description of how they look (not a screenshot yet!)?:  Pale, grayish skin covered in dirt. Rugged clothes covers his tainted body.

Anything else you want to say about them?: He is a batman.

Please give us a screenshot of your character’s skin:

I might be already whitelisted, dont know :) Just making this to apply my character and to publish his bio. Maybe it gets accepted or not :D

Updated my info

And if you mention the time YOU jumped down into the bloody hole in king simppas grave and died i tried to warn you.

Now all we need is to order a 20ft statue of vaq for next years minecon.

Locked as suggested.

My mom died when I was 16, still I didn't yell and offend other people because it wasn't their fault.

Accepted.

Edit: nevermind..

Denied. Link to screenshot of your skin doesn't work. Make new app with working link.

Accepted.

Accepted.

Accepted.

Denied, make new app when you can attach screenshot of your skin.

Accepted.

Denied. You need to use whole app template which can be found here. Make new app.