combining animations

A recent topic had me giving advice on using UGA to combine two different animated files into one. I decided to try it out myself, and found my very old copy of Ulead Cool 3D. So I made a simple 3d text animation with it, then exported it as a transparent animated gif file (it had no options for exporting a series of transparent png's which would have been great for anti-aliased layers, unfortunately...) Anyway, I anti-aliased the objects in PI, then saved the file as a .ufo file then opened it with UGA. Added another emblem-like object on the background (which I saved in my custom objects pallette, among other things. Very convenient for storing re-usable graphic elements, like arrows or watermarks) and animated that as well, using UGA's tweening function. Then added a transition effect to finish it off. Had to resize it very small, though, for posting it here.
What I'm saying here is :it can be done. It just needs time and a little patience...:D

Cool! Can you combine more than two??????

I wanted to see your eyes roll in and drop to the floor, come on it has to be funny.

No hammer, no wrench, just brilliant animation. No cult of the living dead demanding "Brains".

Alright, I'll admit it, I'm spoiled and you have yourself to blame.

(I still like the animation but I am down on my humor fix.) My hands are shaking so much I can barely type..... @#$@#%@^@% you see.... I'm hitting the wrong keys and everything.

I've always wondered how the Black Beast of Arghhhhhhhh was animated, the one in Mighty Python and the Holy Grail who ate the animator. The Black Beast could chew on your name or your animated avitar while your eyes roll out of its mouth. Great fun.

More than two? yes. It's really only limited by the amount of objects UGA can handle, the amount of hair on your head and how much sanity you want left after you finish the project :D .
The Black Beast of the Aaaaarrrrggghh...:D
Interesting idea. Not really familiar with it, so I googled for pics. Fun stuff. Is it something like the one below? No textures or anything yet, just weird lighting. Texturing would be hard, rigging a torture and animating would be a nightmare. Getting gobbled up would be a relief....:D

He's cute...

Yes, he's the one but he wasn't that shade of pink in the movie.

So you are not a Mighty Python fan, you really ought to see that movie, it is a classic piece of comedy and it is still popular. Such a low budget film and it has made beaucoup bucks.

A quicker animation would be to blow him up with the Holy Handgrenade of Antioch as described by Brother Maynard from the Book of Armaments.

:D
Great ideas. The movie sounds like a classic must-see. I'll look it up one of these days. :D
The Holy Handgrenade?! :eek: :D
Well, I looked for some more references, but most seems to be about a stuffed toy version of it. So I went for the color scheme based on it. It is now rigged and colored, and I posed it like a stop motion doll, took some png snapshots of it. Pretty much Blender 3D stuff. OK, to justify placing it here in the PI forum, the gif animation was put together in UGA ;) . Snap! snap!.... don't point your finger too close on the monitor....:eek:

That's excellent.

Yes, you should really rent this movie. It is terribly funny.

The Holy Handgrenade of Antioch was a silver orb you could hold in your hands, encrusted witha jewel design about the equator and forming a cross at the top, there was a cross that rose above it, it was actually the part you pulled to activate it.

It got rid of the rabbit, you see, it had terrible teeth, the rabbit was "Dynamite".

The description of the Holy Handgrenade sounds like something popes and saints hold in their hands on medieval paintings.... or those fancy Russian ornamented eggs :D
Hmm.. maybe I'll do one later, who knows?
For the meanwhile, you'll just have to amuse yourselves with the running version of the Beast.... :D
I wonder how I'm going to stitch these together later? (In keeping with the title of this thread, that is...):confused:
Errr.... Rabbits?! Terrrible teeth?!

The order of the events is as follows: King Arthur and his knights arrive at the cave, which is guarded by the rabbit, described as being no ordinary rabbit, but such a blood thirsty rabbit, you have never seen, as warned by Tim the Enchanter. Sir Robin is so frightened by the description that he soils his armor. Nevertheless, Arthur and his men are not impressed and charge the cave, the rabbit bites most of their heads off.

To which they shout in unison: "Run Away!!!"

It is then that Brother Maynard brings forth the Holy Handgrenade of Antioch. And Arthur is straight forth instructed from the Book of Armaments how one dosth lob a handgrenade at the foe "who being naughty in My sight, shall snuff it." Thus saith the Lord (all tongue in cheek or course).

Having dispatched that foul rabbit, they enter the cave and read the wall with the last message of Joseph of Arimathea, and he warns them of the Black Beast of Arghhhhhhh, as written on the wall.

Then the Black Beast stalks them but in the process, he eats the animator (namely now Gman) and so they are in quite a dilema as you can see.

You can't just rent the movie. can you?

So as I said, you hanging out of the mouth would be rather wonderful.
Not that I want you hurt, mind you.

Really.

I will definitely look hard for it at the local video rentals.
Placing my silly avatar at the mouth of the beast is proving to be a challenge. The problem is 3d animation is a real beast in itself...:eek: . But hey, I'm learning a lot by setting these mini-challenges for myself. Thanks for pointing me to this interesting story, Sally.
Here's a little variation on the first animation on the Black Beast. I was experimenting on ways to combine 2D with 3D.

i hope you keep that little snapping guy on a leash - his bite looks deadly - great job!!!!!!!!!!!

:D
Errr, how about you leash it while I grab the tail....:eek:

hahahahahahaha, nice
(no thanks)

Aaarrrggghhh....Feeding time!
A little plagiarizing on my part... from the animated gif posted by jamesmc at the 3d forum. http://talkgraphics.com/showthread.php?t=21548 Hope he don't mind...;)
It is the combining animations topic, after all...
All in good fun, though.
Too lazy to rerender a running and snapping beast, so what you see is the result of 2d tweaking of the images I already posted before(the animated one with the beast taking a bite). Just some cutting out and pasting together of some bits and pieces to make it look like the beast is running. Now the Lex Luthor kid have a really good reason for running....:D

Ahh, you're going to get out of breath.

I Googled and found a cute little Black Beast.

Two peas in a pod; two nuts in a shell.

I didn't sew the little beasty, I am just good at Google. Besides, who is nuttier, the nut who thinks this stuff up or the nut who can't wait to read the next installment?

Yes, we are all a bunch of squirrels round here, sure enuff!! Yes, siree, Bob!

Weeze all in good company here.

hahahahaha, i see your point, and you are right........ ;) :)

My gosh, Bob, look at the number of your posts, almost up to me and it's taken me two more years! Do you have a life after work outside of the computer?

But seriously, from your early posts to now, you have really been developing skill with using the digital artist's tools.

thank you sally, someday i'll get close to your talent, but never surpass it