Forum - Tips & Tricks - A Quadruped (Of Sorts!) - Messages http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic5807-a-quadruped-of-sorts.aspx Forum - Tips & Tricks - A Quadruped (Of Sorts!) - Messages en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Jitbit AspNetForum Wed, 20 Jul 2016 04:42:18 GMT Wed, 20 Jul 2016 04:42:18 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic5807-a-quadruped-of-sorts.aspx Message from Rocque
Never give up, and I hope you find motivated Muvizuers with the time and energy to help you with this.]]> Wed, 20 Jul 2016 04:42:18 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic5807-a-quadruped-of-sorts.aspx Message from eugenecheese Is it possible to put up my "Alice" animations on Muvizu again ? In total there is about 30 minutes of them. (3 complete chapters, will ALL the dialogue from the book) I wanted to do the whole book, but got no response from anybody wanting to help. I would do the script, characters, and voices. I need somebody to do the Animation, Sets, Titles etc.
The whole project would be movie-length 90- 120 minutes.
"Alice In Wonderland" has NEVER been produced in FULL as an Animation before.
edited by eugenecheese on 19/07/2016]]> Tue, 19 Jul 2016 18:52:13 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic5807-a-quadruped-of-sorts.aspx Message from PatMarrNC
I like all of your head attachments Eugene! nicely done with good textures.... I can't imagine why your video wasn't well received the first time around, unless there was a lot of forum activity at the time and it got forced off the "front page"

regarding your walking donkey: am I correct in thinking that one of the inside characters is wearing the suit as an attachment? If so, which attachment point? (hair, hat, ...?)
edited by PatMarrNC on 19/07/2016]]> Tue, 19 Jul 2016 13:03:20 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic5807-a-quadruped-of-sorts.aspx Message from eugenecheese

edited by eugenecheese on 19/07/2016]]> Tue, 19 Jul 2016 08:57:42 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic5807-a-quadruped-of-sorts.aspx Message from primaveranz ]]> Tue, 19 Jul 2016 02:29:33 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic5807-a-quadruped-of-sorts.aspx Message from bigwally eugenecheese wrote:
My Little Donkey. Two walking men under a donkey suit, like a pantomime horse !
Love it! Love everything you do, man! Keep it up.]]> Tue, 19 Jul 2016 01:39:31 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic5807-a-quadruped-of-sorts.aspx Message from PatMarrNC Rocque wrote:
PatMarrNC wrote:
yes Mindiflyth, that's totally possible. All you have to do is design the head in such a way that the mouth is still exposed. Then adjust the location of the eyes so they are outside the mask. It is the mouth and eyes that are animatable facial features, it doesn't matter that everything else is static.

I am seeking clarification that you can move the eyes and they still blink and move to look around?


YEP! .. watch the commentator squirrel in the demo I posted ... you'll have to look past the glasses but you can see that the eyes are blinking. I didn't add any pupil movements , but I could have.]]> Tue, 19 Jul 2016 00:16:40 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic5807-a-quadruped-of-sorts.aspx Message from PatMarrNC edited by PatMarrNC on 19/07/2016]]> Tue, 19 Jul 2016 00:13:54 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic5807-a-quadruped-of-sorts.aspx Message from Rocque eugenecheese wrote:
The Heads dont stick out of the top because I made sure the "donkey Suit" was higher than the heads. There are Hooves, But they had to be very chunky to hide the feet. The arms of the characters are the worst problem. It would be great to be able to stop them moving !
To sync the walk, put one man in front of the other, then place an object where you click on for them to walk to, then afterwards delete the object !



I love the cow! Wow. This is great. Thanks for sharing how you accomplished the walking. I know I do not have the patience to work with anything like that right now. It is so much fun to see what you are doing though. Maybe one day I will attempt something fun like that.]]> Mon, 18 Jul 2016 23:58:13 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic5807-a-quadruped-of-sorts.aspx Message from Rocque PatMarrNC wrote:
yes Mindiflyth, that's totally possible. All you have to do is design the head in such a way that the mouth is still exposed. Then adjust the location of the eyes so they are outside the mask. It is the mouth and eyes that are animatable facial features, it doesn't matter that everything else is static.

I am seeking clarification that you can move the eyes and they still blink and move to look around? ]]> Mon, 18 Jul 2016 23:54:57 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic5807-a-quadruped-of-sorts.aspx Message from eugenecheese To sync the walk, put one man in front of the other, then place an object where you click on for them to walk to, then afterwards delete the object !]]> Mon, 18 Jul 2016 23:47:53 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic5807-a-quadruped-of-sorts.aspx Message from PatMarrNC
1) how did you keep the characters inside the donkey from having their heads stick out the top?

2) if you kept the inside characters small enough not to stick out, how did you get the legs so stout?


here's a similar experiment:



I was shooting for 4 legs plus head movement... in retrospect it should also be possible to get animatable mouth and eyes depending on how the head attachment is made. Eyes are static on this demo.]]> Mon, 18 Jul 2016 23:33:09 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic5807-a-quadruped-of-sorts.aspx Message from Rocque eugenecheese wrote:
My Little Donkey. Two walking men under a donkey suit, like a pantomime horse !


I have no idea how you created this, but it is very very cute! I have trouble getting one character to walk and can't even imagine how you got the 2 characters to be in sync. It is a fun idea and I see others are already running with it. Thanks for sharing.]]> Mon, 18 Jul 2016 23:26:17 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic5807-a-quadruped-of-sorts.aspx Message from PatMarrNC mindiflyth wrote:

Some of the work here (like Clayster's stormtrooper helmets and stuff) have made me think it would be possible to create "masks" for the characters, so they would have totally new heads and you wouldn't be stuck with the Muvizu character designs.


yes Mindiflyth, that's totally possible. All you have to do is design the head in such a way that the mouth is still exposed. Then adjust the location of the eyes so they are outside the mask. It is the mouth and eyes that are animatable facial features, it doesn't matter that everything else is static.

The squirrel in this video has a whole-head mask:


The concept and head design can be ANYTHING as long as you leave the mouth uncovered and use standard Muvizu eyes.


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edited by PatMarrNC on 18/07/2016]]> Mon, 18 Jul 2016 22:32:11 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic5807-a-quadruped-of-sorts.aspx Message from MrDrWho13
]]> Mon, 18 Jul 2016 22:10:33 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic5807-a-quadruped-of-sorts.aspx Message from mindiflyth
For people trying to come up with workarounds like this, it may help to think of Muvizu as being more like cosplay or puppetry than animation, in some ways. You can't actually change the shape of these characters, but you can add stuff on and/or make some parts invisible. I wonder if there'd be some way to create "stilts" for the characters. That would open up a lot of possibilities. You could even give them cosplay-style animal legs.

Some of the work here (like Clayster's stormtrooper helmets and stuff) have made me think it would be possible to create "masks" for the characters, so they would have totally new heads and you wouldn't be stuck with the Muvizu character designs. The main drawback there is that as far as I know those heads would be frozen, and the only way to change them would be to do a morph in editing or to change them between shots. (Is there a way to add an animated 3D element to the Muvizu program? Could you create a 3D head that had its own animation cycle, and attach that to a Muvizu character?)]]> Mon, 18 Jul 2016 21:59:10 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic5807-a-quadruped-of-sorts.aspx Message from ziggy72 Mon, 18 Jul 2016 21:34:53 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic5807-a-quadruped-of-sorts.aspx Message from MrDrWho13 Mon, 18 Jul 2016 19:52:29 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic5807-a-quadruped-of-sorts.aspx Message from eugenecheese
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