Baur.Collada.Fox.360Video

Still from demo

Inspiration

Stylized Animations of the DemoScene. A small file format for maximum impact

The Red Panda of Firefox walks the lighting lit halls of an empty cathedral

What it does

I used an open source pipeline in Blender to draw, rig and animate a new fox model. I then participated in today's Alpha demo of the Auteurist software, producing renders with a flow of motion matching the rig animation. I integrated the exported Collada files with the .mp4's from the Auteurist program into equirectangular panoramic background textures, which I displayed in the browser through ThreeJS successfully (and with some struggles in AFrame).

How I built it

Using images sourced from the Google Search with Share and Modify permissions(CC BY-ND 4.0) scaled down to the 256x256 aspect, I have also produced low poly textures and reference images. I used the references to draw a extrude a cube with a mirror modifier to match the form and side references of a fox. I used decimate modifiers to bring the final sub-surfaced and brushed mesh from 50 K to Under 1K. I used UV mapping to texture the mesh and a basic bone rig system to rig. I created a 60 frame loop with two cycles, a trot, and jump. I used references from _The Illusion of Life _ for the jump cycle which runs from 31-60 frames. I will make the bundled textured/rigged/animated model open source at the end of this hackathon on SketchFab.✓ https://sketchfab.com/models/a6f7d72c96d64292ade58bf6d235e77b I followed the instructions and held patience from the export process

Challenges I ran into to

I am more familiar with Panoramic Equirectangular then top-bottom videos that Auteurist exported, I felt like my process may have lost some quality. In general in a side by side of Blender Cycles export and Auteurist, I was pleasantly surprised. It was much faster if frames were dropped, my insecure browser was most likely the culprit.

Accomplishments that I'm proud of

How to create and export a WebVr Ready 3d animated/rigged textured model. It's a long road in Blender with the UI.This past challenge really helped me feel like I've been successful at producing something from start to finish.