combining animations

**Grafixman** · 29 May 2006, 07:39 AM

Great ideas. The movie sounds like a classic must-see. I'll look it up one of these days.

The Holy Handgrenade?!

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....

**sallybode** · 30 May 2006, 02:27 AM

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".

**Grafixman** · 30 May 2006, 09:30 AM

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

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....

I wonder how I'm going to stitch these together later? (In keeping with the title of this thread, that is...)

Errr.... Rabbits?! Terrrible teeth?!

**sallybode** · 31 May 2006, 01:39 AM

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.

**Grafixman** · 02 June 2006, 08:10 AM

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...

. 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.