Just a werewolf.

geekboy1500 · Post by **geekboy1500** » Wed May 16, 2007 7:55 pm

Well I believe we have found a CG artist for Freeborn no?

GREAT WORK

Vuldari · Post by **Vuldari** » Wed May 16, 2007 8:01 pm

geekboy1500 wrote:Well I believe we have found a CG artist for Freeborn no?

GREAT WORK

Don't forget about THIS guy... Timothy Albee

...He is Already part of the project.

Anook · Post by **Anook** » Wed May 16, 2007 10:22 pm

I would really like to buy his Kaze, Ghost Worrior, but it cost $17.95 and the movie is only 22 minutes long. Yes, I know its an independent film so therefore not a huge production but still...
Wouldn't it be a rip off.
I looked for the 22 min. DVD on Amazon, but it cost $29 there!!

I might still buy; just got to think about it.

LoboLEO · Post by **LoboLEO** » Thu May 17, 2007 6:54 pm

Your werewolf conept it's awesome, although it's looks a bit bluky the overall design works really good, not like a movie but for a video-game it'd be one that I'd definitevely would buy

, keep up the awesome work!.

AladasianTheMeerkat · Post by **AladasianTheMeerkat** » Sat May 19, 2007 1:05 pm

I'm probably late on the ball for this, but will an Xvid-encoded reconversion to AVI on Bink also help for those who might wanna see the file and don't have QT?

http://www.mediafire.com/?chvxyscydnj

**NOTE: This file is 21 megs larger that the original 32 MB MOV file. Oog.

deruty · Post by **deruty** » Sat May 19, 2007 3:34 pm

Wait freeborn got Timothy Albee?

that guys amazing! You're amazing too, but I liked his work a lot too. You wouldn't by chance have a fellow who goes by Rowsby too would you?

Figarou · Post by **Figarou** » Sat May 19, 2007 3:47 pm

heh...just saw the video again.

I'm going to repeat what the little kid said in "The Incredibles."

That was totally wicked!!!

Vuldari · Post by **Vuldari** » Sat May 19, 2007 5:15 pm

deruty wrote:Wait freeborn got Timothy Albee? that guys amazing! You're amazing too, but I liked his work a lot too. You wouldn't by chance have a fellow who goes by Rowsby too would you?

No...but most of us are familiar with his work.

http://www.rowsby.com/

Fullmoonstar · Post by **Fullmoonstar** » Sat May 19, 2007 5:30 pm

wow.....you are damn right...his stuff is beyond amazing....why i have not seen his site before? thank you for the link...
But the Topic-Animation is just much more brilliant too...so

Morkulv · Post by **Morkulv** » Mon May 21, 2007 12:36 am

Figarou · Post by **Figarou** » Mon May 21, 2007 3:15 am

MattSullivan · Post by **MattSullivan** » Mon May 21, 2007 6:01 am

That's a fantastic werewolf man. ( or woman, lest I be wrong ) I myself use MAYA, but am way too lazy to have learned all the fur controls. Did you use maya?

Morkulv · Post by **Morkulv** » Mon May 21, 2007 9:41 pm

Teh_DarkJokerWolf · Post by **Teh_DarkJokerWolf** » Tue May 22, 2007 1:26 am

Oh geez Mork alot of folks said their opinions, but you did not jump on them, why are you jumping on Fig for posting his own? They didn't say it was their opinion either, but nothing was said to them..I tend to agree with Fig an alot of people who said just the same thing about the VH werewolf. This hasn't just happened here in this thread but others as well

ravaged_warrior · Post by **ravaged_warrior** » Tue May 22, 2007 1:31 am

Morkulv · Post by **Morkulv** » Tue May 22, 2007 1:03 pm

Teh_DarkJokerWolf · Post by **Teh_DarkJokerWolf** » Tue May 22, 2007 7:22 pm

Well Mork..For future reference, make sure you point that out to everyone who says this not just one particular pack memeber..It would seem that your picking on just them..honestly that's not fair

Doberman · Post by **Doberman** » Tue May 22, 2007 9:40 pm

Fig was just expressing his opinion.
It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure that out.

Morkulv · Post by **Morkulv** » Wed May 23, 2007 2:37 am

Wolf of the Wind · Post by **Wolf of the Wind** » Sat May 26, 2007 12:02 am

very nice werewolf concept, and the break down was pretty nice to.

Ranubis · Post by **Ranubis** » Mon Jun 04, 2007 4:17 am

That is amazing. I can see me watching that over and over again.

Zombie · Post by **Zombie** » Tue Jun 05, 2007 6:39 pm

Uh, Damn!

Doberman · Post by **Doberman** » Tue Jun 05, 2007 6:55 pm

I think it's great. Though, in my opinion, the werewolf is just a little too muscular.

RedEye · Post by **RedEye** » Tue Jun 05, 2007 9:15 pm

I finally got the thing to load and in a word WOW! Very well done. The hairless bit with the Arctic Wolf has a resemblence to a Dobie, rather than a Lupus; but that's what works best.

It's a pity we only had a few seconds of movement, but what was there was excellent and fully believable.

I see some references to the Shoulder muscles as being too much, but remember; a Were's shoulderblades are held on by those muscles and they have to be large to keep the shoulder blades in place.

All in all, quite excellent- the car was nice, too.

Rwolf · Post by **Rwolf** » Sun Jun 10, 2007 3:19 am

The program I used was Softimage XSI 5.11, (in additon my friend James used Maya w/ Blastcode to add the glass shatter, and fusion to composite the shot)
It took about 8-10 workstations rendering 24 hours a day for about 4-5 days to render the short animated sequence, and took about 3 weeks to render out all of the snow/rotation shots.

There is about 3/4 of a million hairs on the model, almost megar compared to the 5 million? used on Aslan in Narnia (or so they say from the specials on the dvd)

Computer limtations really bottle necked the production. I had to render out the the fur as one pass to get the look I wanted, and the result of that every 3rd frame it would glitch and would hafta re-render it. And attempting to light it using than more than 3 spot lights would kill renders. (it would take 20-30 min per frame) I wish I could've dove into more photo realistic render but it was not possible with the time constrants of putting out a studen reel.

Othere wise I would of done more with this model, but I would render farm for this.

zbrush was used, but only to detail around the nose and eyes.

I did refrence abit of doberman when making the model. Since I couldn't find any super wet, or forbid shaved wolf photos to see the physical structure of the head. (my dog was no help either, all fluff...)

I tend to styled my werewolf drawings pretty bulky, thus I model him with a pretty heavy build, less to my imagination after applying fur to the model made him even bulkier than I thought...

Hopfully there will be more tidbits of him once I find a job in the industry, and able to afford a decient render machine for myself