HERE is the final animation for the show opener. There will be music and stuff added now that we’re done with our part. As you can see, some things changed since the last version… mostly just the color and surface treatment of things.

-Floyd Bishop

We got a few notes after our last conference call, and incorporated pretty much all of them. HERE is the newest version of the opening.

Let us know what you think.
-Floyd

HERE is a sneek peek at what the final animation for the animated logo will look like. We think we’re close to final, but we have to wait and see how the conference call goes before we render the final.

The final will have cool things like reflections, motion blur, etc.

What do you think of things so far?
-Floyd

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Here are some frames from the final animation, complete with shadows, reflections, and motion blur.

As always, let us know what you think.

-Floyd

Here’s a still of the CG version of the ping pong ball logo. It’s not as simple as it looks.

The word “cartoons” is actually made up of seperate pieces of geometry letters, whose primary visibility is turned off, yet they cast shadows.

The balls have their primary visibility turned on, but they are set to not cast shadows.

The letters are then point constrained with offset (X and Z axis only) to their corresponding ball so that the balls bounce around the scene, yet always cast a consistant letter shadow.

-Floyd

HERE is a work in progress clip of animation from the animated Random Cartoons logo.

Enjoy!
-Floyd

So HERE is the contraption, all rigged up and ready for action. Let us know what you think!

Also, if you’re in Boston this week, we’ll be staying at the Colonnade Hotel during Siggraph. Stop by and say hello.

-Floyd

Here’s the Ping Pong Ball Distribution Contraption model. It was modeled by Veronica Harper and Mike Kopa.

Textures, effects, and animation to follow.

-Floyd

Here’s a teaser image of the Random Cartoons contraption model in progress. The device was designed by J Chad Erekson, and is being modeled by Veronica Harper. Also giving us a hand, literally, is Mike Kopa. We’ll post some images of the hand part of the device sometime soon.

-Floyd

Here are the drawings we did of various contraptions to replace the gun in our initial boards. We decided to go with contraption #1, because we thought the hand would be fun and allow for some cool animation.

We’re in the process of modelling this thing right now. It’s more complicated than it looks!

-Floyd