Animation is starting to slow down a little for me in the last days (if animation is cranked this close to the end then you’ve got problems).
So other than a tweak or two here and there, there isn’t much for an animator to do. So yesterday Kjartan made me this little guy.
With a quick rig and flap cycle, I’m spending the last hours pigeon’ing any scene I can. Sticking him perched in a tower somewhere in the background, or flying past in the distance just to add a little touch of movement and, eh-hem… life.
They remember me a well-know Elephant Dream scene…
Yep, i’m thinking the same. How about a stripact starring Sintel (sorry the hot weather)
I see cute little toys hitting the shelves of Toys ‘R’ Us soon! LOL
Oh no … a logical flaw added to the movie: if robots want to eat amsterdam, then these pigeons are also eaters. They should attack every living thing they see …
Nice gimmick :)
Hitchcock strikes back!
In all seriousness these characters should be 3d printed to raise revenue for the Blender Foundation… or even made available in the shapeways store for people to print themselves. They’d make great collectibles!
oh and nice job!!
I see some serious frame-to-frame pigeon hunting coming. :)
If you would modify the robot, this pigeon, or even some previous characers (Proog!) to 3D printable models and sell them through eg. shapeways, I would buy them!
I would be interested to see renderfarm stats this week. Is there anyway you can post a cpu-hours stat for all the rendering? Or maybe, a graph of frames in the queue over time for the week?
And that said, how long does it take with Blender Institute facilities to re-render the whole film? IF you’re adding pigeons today, even if you’re smart about render layers, doesn’t that mean that you have to re-render large portions of the film?
Love it
I sense a mascot coming on…
For some reason i started imagining that scene from Blade Runner…
Robopigeon flies by.
Rachel: “Do you like our pigeon?”
Deckard: “It’s artificial?”
Rachel: “Of course it is..”
Deckard: “Must be expensive.”
Rachel: “Not really.”
@SJ Bennett, I like your mini-script. If I may, let be add a bit to the last line:
Rachel: “Not really. It’s Open Source.”
That’s really nice :D I love the secondary action on the claws and tail.
“I sense a mascot coming on…”
Yes! Very this. Plushies would be nice.
I have a soundtrack for the pigeon. Marco Z with “I’m A Bird”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oEOLZiA8QPg
@jeremy… do you remeber that scene that came after the credit list in BickBuckBunny? that could be a fun project to make ;)
pigeon ftw!
Or something like the pigeon in the first Iron Sky teaser! :P
Bick O.o I meant “big”.
This is how John Woo doves will look from here on.
The question is will it Fly?
Pigeon: Impossible
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jEjUAnPc2VA
Beautifull I love the mechanic pigeon :-)
I sense a new Blender Conference award. A Pigeon, for the best tracking, masking, compositing etc.
Any late news or a Friday meeting this week? Just a short summary is ok if everyone is too busy for a full post.
How about a good tutorial on creating something like this
Why don’t you just admit that you’re freaked out by my robot pigeon!