R.I.D BASE OF OPERATIONS

Just finished my biggest homework assignment ever, a 1-minute frame by frame animation done in Nuke, using Photoshop (gag) to compose the frames. After around 200 hours of work over the course of two weeks, I accidentally ended up making a 3 minute animation instead of a 1 minute one. Just have to composite all the segmented .mov files, and I'm done till Wednesday, when I'll get my next assignment!

telemchus wrote:Just finished my biggest homework assignment ever, a 1-minute frame by frame animation done in Nuke, using Photoshop (gag) to compose the frames. After around 200 hours of work over the course of two weeks, I accidentally ended up making a 3 minute animation instead of a 1 minute one. Just have to composite all the segmented .mov files, and I'm done till Wednesday, when I'll get my next assignment!

You are indeed a patient artist my friend. Congrats!

I have always despised frame by frame animation. That was one thing I like about 3DS Max. Only really need to set keyframes every pose, with the occasional one in between to make sure something like an arm doesn't bend all wierd when it moves. Then go back and fine tune between frames to make it look right. It's my prefered method even when animating in Flash or Director as well (they call them tweens or something like that in Flash and Director I think).
Grats on the work though...I just wouldn't have the patience lol.

[quote="Mikal"It's my prefered method even when animating in Flash or Director as well (they call them tweens or something like that in Flash and Director I think).[/quote]

You're correct, however Director got rolled into Flash with the past couple of releases from Adobe...

I'm a big fan of flash myself, but I also really like Nuke. It's mainly used as a 3D compositing program, and these projects are just used to get us used to both the program and motion for future projects where we use more practical programs.