May10: Contest Winner!

[DjVoyager]

Congratulations stwert!
The winner of the May's animation contest -- Getting Across.



stwert: Whiplash (Watch Animation) (http://vimeo.com/12191140)


stwert will receive a $50 Gift certification for Amazon and a place on the next DT Newsletter.



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DT admins and staff are very proud of the work done by each participant and we would like to express our appreciation by posting the links to all of the animation entries in this thread for your admiration. Enjoy :)


Dule: Sometin'... sometin'... balls (http://www.vimeo.com/12190712)

vfxme: The chase is on (http://www.vimeo.com/12189794)

deni: the rabbit and the turtle... (http://vimeo.com/12163278)

Blodiiks: HiBob_Animation (http://www.vimeo.com/12095974)

srinivasan.s: Bouncing balls (http://vimeo.com/11962313)

[Dean]

congrats to the winner and all the entries, reall nice animations !
Cheers!

[stwert]

Woohoo! So thrilled...:biggrin: And great job everyone, some really sweet animations!
And Dule... if you want to, you could send me your scene and I would render it out for you. An animation that good deserves to be rendered, I think. Let me know.

[vfxme]

Congratulations Stewert. You really did do a great job overall on your animation. You did a clean, very nice environment, and had a nice little story with the balls, and gave each ball an interesting personality. Nice work. :dance

[Dule]

Congrats Stwert! Your little ball fellas got real personalty. Great work :)

About the animation I did... the thing is, its actually made out of 4 scene files, only 2 of which I bothered to light and texture before realizing I cant render the thing out at this time.
So the thing isnt really complete. If ya wanna see the files I can still send 'em to ya, but truth is I'm very sloppy with scene organization generally, and making these scenes while in a huge rush, has made the outliner hard to look at even for me.

[stwert]

Thanks guys. Glad you liked it. Well, it's up to you Dule, I just thought if you really wanted your scene rendered, I could put some of my system to work on it.

[Fusedgore]

Congratulations Stwert .Great Job .In terms of squash and stretch this is really fantastic .

[brandeil]

Congrats! nice work :)

[stwert]

Thanks everyone :)

[stwert]

So I decided to buy Mastering Maya 2009 (http://www.amazon.com/Mastering-Maya-2009-Eric-Keller/dp/0470392207/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1276627079&sr=8-1) by Eric Keller with the gift certificate. Looks like a great book for learning and reference. I love the DT videos, but sometimes it's just easier to crack a book when you want to refresh yourself on some point. :)
So thanks DT, for more learning materials and the awesome fun contest.

[deni]

Hey Stwert! Congrats!! It was really a well-done project :-)
Your book choice sounds interesting too!