Second all the files that build it. Yup thats right the souce for the above animation is available here.
http://4lfa.com/work/004-pussy
I figure I want to keep that in svn anyway it might as well appear on the webby webby woo.
So some production notes, the animation is built in blender, lip syncing although retarted is handled by papagayo and a little custom script to apply it to the scene.
After a few tests and since I wanted some nice motion blur on the kitty as its supposed to be moving quite fast I am using a combination of motion blur and fake motion blur via blenders compositor. Nothing special but it looks to me like a combination of both gives you the best results for your render time. Just using motion blur doesn't give enough blur and the fake velocity motion blur filter goes wrong too easily. Together they cancel out each others flaws.
Again mostly fake lighting from the ambient occlusion, the lighting model may not be real but it certainly looks more real than real and thats all I care about :)
"your plastic pal who's fun to be with is more human than human"
There are two scenes in the blender file, one for rendering and one to composite the images that I get back from respower into the final result. Mixing images fades and sound.
If you pull down the work directory you will find .ogg files, blender doesn't read .oggs they need to be converted to .wav before the blender scene can use them. They are just checked in as oggs to save space.
Problem wise there are also some old wav references in that file that shouldn't be there. I have no idea how to delete them, they seem to be referenced from somewhere but I know not where.
Unhappy with the voices still, really need to get some kind of decent recording gear and work out a plan of attack for this but hey fuck it, it doesn't have to be perfect and we will get better.
But I do like the bouncing cat and the 3d cat itself which like the other characters went from original 2d to 3d perfectly.
