Hi everyone,
The time has come and gone for the Reallusion Crazy Talk Animator ‘Animated Salad’ competition.
So without further waffle from me, feast your eyes on the amazing entries that caught the eyes of the judges.
Reallusion salutes all the winners in this year’s Animation Salad Competition, which brought inanimate objects to life with the power of CrazyTalk Animator. Several animators went to great lengths to create phenomenal animations that are sure to inspire future artists with new and unique styles. For their exceptional efforts, a handful of videos won several awards that were well merited. Congratulations to all the winners! We hope to see all of you in the next CrazyTalk Animator competition!
All entries:
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Best Picture AwardWinner Prize (x 1):
Sony 220GB HD Camcorder with Projector
Director: thebiz
Video Title: Sushi Ronin
Judge's Comment:
This animated video has been ingeniously created with stylized sushi characters. The story revolves around a typical vengeance story, spiced up with interesting and funny plots. The character fighting motions are cute and dramatic, and very well done, which even include some iClone animations. The director maintains a good tone while delivering an absorbing story. The author, Thebiz offers a fun and complete story that wins the title of Best Picture Award. Two thumbs up!
Best Director AwardWinner Prize (x 1):
iPad2 32 GB (Wi-Fi)
Director: Teviniii
Video Title: Unfinished Paintings (Dreaming of New Orleans)
Judge's Comment:
The Unfinished Painting is a superb masterpiece, composed with animated paintings in CrazyTalk Animator and key elements in iClone. The video was produced with a kind of aesthetic and operatic aura. The animations were carefully and exquisitely designed for effortless appreciation. We would like to especially award Teviniii for delivering a new style in the use of CrazyTalk Animator production.
Most Popular AwardWinner Prize (x 1):
Xbox 360 - 250GB Console with Kinect
Director: Animatatoo
Video Title: Toyformers 3
Judge's Comment:
Toyformer3 excellently combines the cast of Toy Story 3 and the movie trailer of Transformers 3. The result is an inspiring, jaw-dropping and fascinating movie tribute. This video successfully hit the most popular award by generating almost 50,000 views on YouTube alone, which won it tons of great comments and feedback from the animation community. With this ingenious idea and character arrangement, Animatoo introduces CrazyTalk Animator to the world of well-done parodies!
Best Original Character AwardWinner Prize (x 1):
Wacom Intuos4 (PTK-440) Tablet
Director: Tom Jantol
Video Title: I am not there, I did not die.
Judge's Comment:
This video contains beautifully designed characters, all created in an artistic style. The author, Tom Jantol, has gone to great lengths to create highly original characters in this animation video. Congratulations for an exceptional job!
Best Casting AwardWinner Prize (x 1):
Wacom Bamboo Fun Tablet
Director: Darren Thompson
Video Title: Loopy Fruits
The Best Casting Award goes to Darren and the Loopy Fruits. Darren selected different groups of characters for different scenes which fit the story and comic tone perfectly.
Best Screenplay AwardWinner Prize (x 3):
Corel VideoStudio Pro X4
Director: thebiz
Video Title: Sushi Ronin
Judge’s Comments:
One of the Best Screenplay Awards goes to The Sushi Ronin, which uses a casual way to guide audiences through an interesting and witty story, climaxing in a smart ending.
Director: Ulrike Thiemann
Video Title: Cupy and Cleany
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yxi3ecxyXnc
Judge’s Comments:
A simple, funny and straight forward story between Cupy and Cleany. The story is simple but delivers a funny punch line at the end.
Director: Tafadzwa Tarumbwa
Video Title: The God feather
Judge’s Comments:
A dramatic, gangster-like animation with theatrical tones, accurate stage setting and engaging dialogue.
Best Style Setting AwardWinner Prize (x 3):
Corel Paintshop Photo Pro X3
Director: Tom Jantol
Video Title: I am not there, I did not die.
Judge’s Comments:
Again, this animation is one of the most visually stunning videos in this contest, complete with elegant and gracious character styles.
Director: Teviniii
Video Title: Unfinished Paintings
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Z7M75Z4qMM
Judge’s Comments:
This previous winner contains paintings and a collage of characters composed in a poetic story with strong artistic feeling.
Director: Soraya Gomes da Silva
Video Title: Green Dream
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3Q6Nf_vwGE&feature=player_embedded
Judge’s Comments:
The character and scenes in this music video are designed in a clear and clean style which creates a new type of CrazyTalk Animator fairy tale.
Best Voice Performance AwardWinner Prize (x 3):
Serif PhotoPlus x4
Director: thebiz
Video Title: Sushi Ronin
Judge’s Comments:
The voice actors in Sushi Ronin are all professionally made. They do a great job in describing the personalities of the characters.
Director: Darren Thompson
Video Title: Loopy Fruits
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qThEQXhUbyM
Judge’s Comments:
Loopy Fruits contains a host and lots of individualized characters, all with interesting and emotive dialogues.
Director: David-Josué OYOUA
Video Title: Introducing the Fruticons
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T93p0jGVrMg
Judge’s Comments:
In David-Josué’s video the characters work well, with lovely voices, which fit their styles in this nice picnic scene.
Best Visual FX AwardWinner Prize (x 3):
Serif DrawPlus x 4
Director: Teviniii
Video Title: Unfinished Paintings
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Z7M75Z4qMM
Judge’s Comments:
This multi-award winner contains many composited scenes including CrazyTalk Animator and iClone animations which deliver appealing visual effects.
Director: Tafadzwa Tarumbwa
Video Title: The God feather
Judge’s Comments:
The God Feather uses good lighting, and shadows with contrasts that make any ordinary scene into a suspenseful display.
Director: Tom Jantol
Video Title: I am not there, I did not die.
Judge’s Comments:
Tom’s brilliantly crafted winner creates a dazzling show of music and poetry with an elegant music box and fantasy characters. It’s a visually comfortable and enjoyable video.
Best Animation AwardWinner Prize (x 3):
Animation Magazine 1-Year Subscription
Director: Animatatoo
Video Title: Toyformers 3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UeXrZQMTrg0&feature=channel_video_title
Judge’s Comments:
First place in this category goes again to Animatoo, who brings skills in character animation and precise scene creation. It’s never easy to simulate robot transformation and for this we salute you!
Director: thebiz
Video Title: Sushi Ronin
Judge’s Comments:
The Sushi Ronin keeps on winning! This award-buster contains fighting scenes with martial arts motions that are very well-made and very fun to watch.
Director: Thorsten Mihm
Video Title: Little bee
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gL3qH0OXsqM
Judge’s Comments:
Thorsten brings a little bee to life by using a creative technique that combines interesting Star Wars-like chase scenes and plots.
Best Camera AwardWinner Prize (x 3):
Renderosity Gift Certificate US$100
Director: David-Josué OYOUA
Video Title: Introducing the Fruticons
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T93p0jGVrMg
Judge’s Comments:
This video uses several scene layers using rich camera movements with depth and visual design.
Director: Animatatoo
Video Title: Toyformers 3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UeXrZQMTrg0&feature=channel_video_title
Judge’s Comments:
Animatoo’s 3rd award! This goes to show that, if you deliver an exceptional entry then you will rake in all the prizes! This video contains several advanced camera angles and perspectives that make the entire video quite exciting.
Director: Teviniii
Video Title: Unfinished Paintings
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Z7M75Z4qMM
Judge’s Comments:
Another multi-prize winner with a magical combination of 2D layers and 3D characters all driven by smooth camera skills.
Well done one and all and to the competition hosts for bringing them all together.
Enjoy, mAD mELLOR mAN
Hello, good evening and welcome, thanks for tuning in.
With the summer hols now long gone and the kids back at school, you start to think of the extra cost heating bills will be in the office this winter....so quickly decide to write a long await blog post.
Tonight's features will hopefully tickle some of 'your fancies' but if we don't manage to make you smile, cry, laugh or break wind...., then change your diet, it's nothing personal.
To start, let's share a trio of latest releases from
Mass Force Records
Mass Force "In its own way" by Mass Force Records
This is Killing Me - Mass Force by Mass Force Records
Brick Dust (Unsigned) "Check It" by Mass Force Records
Party on Mike...,in der house...,
Meanwhile.... the release of our entry into the Reallusion 2011 CTA Animation Salad comp could cause a stir.....
Please enjoy The Loopy Fruits Of Pipanpeel Valley, Guisborough, UK.
With the imminent release of iClone 5.... it's going to be hard knowing which softwares to utilise in the less time these days we seem to have, oh the joys, until next time, back to work.....
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Hello citizens from all corners of the cyber realms - welcome to the latest post at The Mellor TV Blog.
News, updates and more awaits for your viewing pleasure.
YouTube have recently added a few 'freebie' movie making applications to the variety of extras that they've lavished upon us mere mortals of late, one been Xtranormal, which has a 'text to Movie' tag as it’s ease of use.
Due to this 'ease of use', a few of the familiar tools one would expect to have in a movie making package are 'in the hands of the app'. Still, it's loads a fun and a cool way to enjoy the basics of film making - if you have a script or an itch, give it a go.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsV-bqjfymM
Mass Force Mike has been hard at it in his studio creating a collection of new tracks for the up and coming summer project, here's a selection to give you a taster of things to come, rock on M.F.
Mass Force "Inspiration" Work In Progress by Mass Force
Mass Force "Waiting For" by Mass Force
Music is the answer (Mass Force Old Skool Remix) by Mass Force
Meanwhile, at The Spotlight Studio.
It has been a great experience of late been able to work with our first 'mature student' group, whom have had a 4 week taster, work based placement with us.
All at some stage of the course helped create a media production of some kind and the following is a short tutorial piece by Craig & Chris, Entitled Chris's Techie Tips, great job guys, well done .
Thanks for your time, please call back again soon, bye for now, DT
Greetings one and all with a hint of festive spirit and a touch of seasonal cheer.
It's about this time of year that you'll hopefully be putting the final 'requests' in your letters to Santa but if you are still undecided then let me make a few suggestions.
If a bit of 2D animation tickles 'yer fancy', then Reallusion have a treat to fill any stocking with their next incarnation of Crazy Talk, namely 'Crazy Talk Animator'.
CrazyTalk Animator, the next level of 2D animation. Create actors using any photo or illustration. Bring actors to life with automatic facial animation and innovative puppeteering motion. Drag n drop to build sets with scenery and props. Film and direct all the action with the camera and timeline tracks for complete 2D Animation.
http://www.reallusion.com/crazytalk/Animator/default.aspx
More 'virtual stocking fillers' from Reallusion.
Meanwhile, new from Mass Force - Take It Back - MF in full effect, you rock Mike!!! Turn it UP
Mass Force (Take it back) by Mass Force
It also gives me great pleasure in sharing the following feature from former Spotlight Studio staff member 'Wing Commander Finchett', who, for the past 23 years has been out of the limelight whilst meditating in Tibet, is back and back to his best, creating an awesome video about a fiver.
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Spotlight Studio Student League
A compilation of student video footage is now available for viewing at:
http://www.youtube.com/user/sPOTLIGHTcREW
I'm starting to think of food, back again maybe soon. Bye for now,
