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~Falljoydelux Jan 11, 2013 Hobbyist General Artist

@00:44Dude, you blatent sign-ignorer

~melviso Feb 10, 2012 Filmographer

@02:18Did u use different focal length settings in Maya for each camera shot i.e when u cut to another camera angle in this film?

~deltafiremoonterra May 29, 2011

@00:02is a beautiful video it makes people happy Lesz most unfortunate

~royalegrowl Dec 3, 2010

@01:04cool it coulored everything!

~JustinChee Aug 9, 2010

Aww, thanks =3

~JustinChee Aug 6, 2010

Thanks! I love how his smile blend shape turned out =3

~JustinChee Aug 6, 2010

You're welcome!

I tried using blender, but I played with maya first so I'm more accustomed to it right now ><.

~JustinChee Aug 8, 2010

Cool, thanks, it's my pleasure

*KoKitsune-sama Aug 5, 2010

@02:11lolz id bet

~JustinChee Aug 5, 2010

Thanks! =3

~JustinChee Aug 5, 2010

Thanks

~JustinChee Aug 5, 2010

XD Yay~

~JustinChee Aug 5, 2010

Yay~?

~Cookie-Sweetie Aug 5, 2010

@00:08Why is that song so catchy?

~JustinChee Aug 5, 2010

Thanks

~JustinChee Jul 25, 2010

@01:29

That part had me thinking a lot, and in order to get a deeper message, I decided to let it open again.

Sleeping Dragonby ~JustinChee

Film & Animation / Animation / 3D / Fantasy

Sleeping Dragon

Completed: April 2010
Medium: Maya
Time: Approx 7 months
(3 visualizing, 3 animating, 1 touch ups)
Quality: 50% of original
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Music: "Eternal Hope" by Kevin MacLeod

This is a student film I created while I was in VanArts. It was extremely fun and laborious, I usually spent at least 12 hours a day at school learning and working on my film. Surprisingly, I had fun throughout the whole process with the exception of pre-visualizing. I just couldn't come up an "acceptable" story/characters.

This is where I'd like to give a special thanks to Alannah Mayes

for being a great friend and helping me come up with the building stones that has become "Sleeping Dragon".

Unlike the rest of my class, I had an extremely fun time constructing the set. Though some details (like the roofing) were left out do to having time constraints, I loved it. It came up to a total of about 4 million triangles if I remember correctly, even with the roofs not being complete, luckily I was able to shrink it down to less than 2 million with some polygon deletions. On a side note, I still wish the well was in the middle of the courtyard, I think it would've brought a greater majesty to it. The reason I decided to veto the well in the middle was because it would be in the way for a lot of the shots.

The modeling and the rigging of the characters weren't a problem for me either, I understood the majority of what I was doing (though I wouldn't be able to explain what I was doing if you asked me), and got results that I was fairly happy with.

Animating, this part was even more fun! I saw animating it like choreographing a dance, with twirls and flows with each part of the body to creating something beautiful, creating life.

After school I wanted to submit this film into a few festivals, sadly a majority of them wanted me to submit films in the format of a literal "reel". Which seems like an odd thing to do if I have a digital format... So after my film was turned down for the ones I applied to, I decided to place it up here on dA, for it's first "world-wide release".

I had an incredible time at VanArts, my classmates were probably the best people I have ever met, and I hope that we'll see each other again in the future.
Here are their dA pages that I know of:

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~Reikakuzan Mar 18, 2013 Student General Artist

<3
thats all I need to say

~Falljoydelux Jan 11, 2013 Hobbyist General Artist

@00:44Dude, you blatent sign-ignorer

~Mythrylman Dec 14, 2012 Hobbyist Digital Artist

Wow very nice work!!

~melviso Feb 10, 2012 Filmographer

@02:18Did u use different focal length settings in Maya for each camera shot i.e when u cut to another camera angle in this film?

~deltafiremoonterra May 29, 2011

@00:02is a beautiful video it makes people happy Lesz most unfortunate

~YukikoSama Dec 17, 2010 Hobbyist Digital Artist

THE IMPROVEMENT. Oh, so blinding. 8D
Been a long way since your first 3D movie. The astronaut bear?
Now I can brag to everyone that I know someone who got a DD. Yay~

~JustinChee Dec 18, 2010

Yay~

But I thought you didn't like having your friends know of secret dA.

~YukikoSama Dec 31, 2010 Hobbyist Digital Artist

It's not *that* secret, lolz. I'll give it to anyone who asks. In fact, most of friends already knows it, so secret? Not really.

~royalegrowl Dec 3, 2010

@01:04cool it coulored everything!

*ShaneNewville Aug 10, 2010 Professional Filmographer

Beautiful work!

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