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Little_Dragon · Posted: Mon Mar 27, 2006 10:50 am Post subject: Raptor Rap

Rough draft animation ...

http://www.zippyvideos.com/7360139114517826/hungupr2c/original
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=capgYn-CN2s

... and also definitive proof that I have way too much free time. Time which could almost certainly be spent more productively. Sleeping, for instance.

Content Paradise finally released a new velociraptor, and I couldn't resist tinkering with it. New phoneme and blink morphs, custom config file for Mimic, some earbuds that I modeled in about five minutes, plus a dynamic-cloth iPod cord.

ScottyDM · Posted: Mon Mar 27, 2006 6:10 pm Post subject:

Hey, that's pretty cool! It's an iRap.

ZippyVideos just presents the file that Little Dragon uploaded, but forces it to play in Windows Media Player by the page coding they use. WMP does not know how to properly buffer a .mpg file so it starts to play the file immediately, which results in choppy playback. There's nothing wrong with the file at ZippyVideos. You need to hit the pause button on the player then wait a minute or so (or until it's done downloading) and hit play again. It will play perfectly. You can also download the file by examining the page source code to discover the name of the file. It's about 7.7 MB.

YouTube takes the raw video files people upload and mucks with them. In this case they've cut the sound quality and made the picture less sharp. This movie downloads much quicker than on ZippyVideos so I'm guessing the transformed file is about 1/4 the size of the original. They also do something to hide the file and file type inside their Flash player coding. I've not been able to figure out how to save any video from YouTube.

Scotty

Little_Dragon · Posted: Mon Mar 27, 2006 8:39 pm Post subject:

On my system, web-based MPEGs are handled by QuickTime, which admittedly also does a choppy job of things. But, after the video is fully loaded, I can usually right-click and save it directly to my hard drive, for later viewing in a media player of my choice.

Curious Dragon · Registered User Joined: 25 Mar 2006 Posts: 5

That was very interesting. Nice job with the animation and lip synching.

Is this going to be completed? I noticed that the song got cut off.

Little_Dragon · Posted: Mon Mar 27, 2006 11:47 pm Post subject:

Yes, I intend to work on this further, although it won't be longer.

Shar · Posted: Tue Mar 28, 2006 2:17 am Post subject:

I love it... and i love your avatar... keep it up LD.

Ryan Fox · Guest

Here's my attempt at something silly involving Madonna

@ http://fchan.hentaiplanet.net/flash/ * look for my 3D Dancing Vixen post*

Adios!

Danny · Posted: Tue May 23, 2006 7:41 am Post subject:

Interesting keyboard

Little_Dragon · Posted: Mon Sep 18, 2006 6:06 am Post subject:

Here's yet another example of why I shouldn't be permitted any free time:

YouTube
ZippyVideos

(I was tinkering with the DAZ Charger this evening and decided to try the motion files I'd created earlier for the raptor ....)

Little_Dragon · Posted: Fri Oct 06, 2006 2:56 am Post subject:

Finally got around to rendering the raptor animation. Here it is, in all its dubious glory:

YouTube
ZippyVideos
Google Video
Stage6 (requires DivX 6)

Google and Stage6 have the best video quality.

To ensure better audio quality at ZippyVideos, I encoded a copy to Windows Media format with Microsoft's Movie Maker software. I feel so unclean ....

tal_nova · Registered User Joined: 28 Dec 2004 Posts: 2

Awesome Job Little Dragon - Did you happen to model that raptor model out or is it from a certain poser packet?

Thanks if you can tell me. Very Happy

Little_Dragon · Posted: Sat Oct 07, 2006 4:18 pm Post subject:

I probably could model something similar, given the time, but no, the new raptor figure was created by Sixus1 for e-frontier. It was given away as a freebie for one day only, as part of the Content Paradise birthday celebration back in March.

It isn't a regular for-sale product, so the only way to get it now is to join CP's Passport club. The raptor is on the bonus content CD.

For my own purposes, I made a few modifications (shortened the fingers, added Mimic-compatibility). The front teeth, in my opinion, need some major dentalwork, and I didn't care much for the posable eyelids (I replaced them with regular morphs), but otherwise it's a fairly good figure. Certainly a vast improvement over the original mutant raptor included in Poser.

I've posted a couple of still renders at FurAffinity, if you'd like to see more than just the head:

http://www.furaffinity.net/view/184973/
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/244190/

Vee Are Are Schee · Posted: Tue Oct 10, 2006 8:17 pm Post subject:

I really have to come around to this section more often as that was all just blatantly awesome.