--- In [email protected], Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Oct 24, 2006, at 6:18 PM, sparaig wrote:
--- In [email protected], Vaj <vajranatha@> wrote:
Also if you are enthralled by people with personality disorders--and
probably bi-polar disorder--you'll probably enjoy _Breaking Bonaduce_
on VH1. It's about child star Danny Bonoduce of Partridge Family fame
and his extremely dysfunctional life, including his stays in rehab
and his meeting with his (excellent) psychologist. The first episode
of season two, El Loco Gringo, is also for free on iTunes. Trsut me,
you've probably never seen anything like this on TV.
How's the animation? ;-)
The scenery looks ray-traced, but the actual figures do resemble
"Speed Racer" era and style hand-drawns (was Speed Racer early anime?).
Yeah, complete with bad dubbing that the PowerPuff Girls consciously imitated with Mojo
JoJo's non-stop repetition of himself in order to simulate the extra sylables the translators
threw in to keep an approximate lip sync: "I am Mojo Jojo which is my name which I am
telling to you in order that you should know who I am..."
What is the actual name of the technique? I have a friend who has
paid a graphic artist to do a comic book based on his story-line and
he's having a real hard time getting the artist to make the comic
book frames not resemble Bryce landscapes with Poser figures pasted
inside them. If you have a basic 3D setup, these look gaudy as hell
for the comic book genre.
Maya 7 and later has a toon-shading option (AKA vector graphics, but in spades). It
reduces the number of shades used to simulate the pen and ink style of animation
drawing. Notice how the shadows on the faces in Skyland are still perfect even though
there's only 2 shades. You can get that effect using poser objects as easily as using any
other in Maya. The more interesting effects are when you apply outlines to the objects so
that they look evcen more hand-drawn. Maya gives you the ability to randomly vary the
thickness of the outlines as well as a few jillion other options. Unfortunately, I'm still using
Maya 6, and the learning edition version splashes this gigantic watermark on everything,
so I can't use it for anything except learning the interface (gee I wonder why they did
that...).
