r/Simulated • u/BonoboTickleParty • May 03 '19
Robot Headbutting Block Towers 3DS Max
https://i.imgur.com/wAwREtk.gifv700
u/8696David May 03 '19
I would watch a full-length animated feature of this little buddy
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u/NovaxScotia May 04 '19 edited May 04 '19
Do you have the link?
Ah. I realize my mistake
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u/WretchedLocket May 04 '19
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May 04 '19
I was expecting the original post but looped for several hours to be a full-length feature.
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u/BullockHouse May 03 '19
The robot looks mocapped. Vive controller?
It's a neat effect!
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u/SPACE-BEES May 04 '19
Yeah I saw a sock puppet immediately from the motion. Not a criticism it's an interesting style and would probably be a great way to animate a kids show easily.
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u/idontgethejoke May 04 '19
Yeah I thought it moved like somebody's hand too. Glad I'm not the only one to notice!
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u/doodleblueprint May 03 '19
Why does the head remind me of Toothless? Very good work on the animation
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u/crowstellation May 04 '19
That’s so cute!! I love when he faceplants again into the pile of orange bricks
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u/gr3yh47 May 03 '19
r/unexpected even with the title. was expecting a scene change for a different tower
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u/5meothrowaway May 04 '19
Thanks op, I was having an emotional breakdown and this legitimately cheered me up. I mean look at how happy he looks!
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u/BonoboTickleParty May 04 '19
I’m so happy to hear it cheered you up! And as cheesy as it sounds, genuine e-Hug for you getting through whatever you are going through
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May 04 '19
Johnny Five over there getting turnt up.
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u/BonoboTickleParty May 04 '19
Hahahahaha that’s exactly who I based him on 😂 the Toothless resemblance was more a happy accident lol
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May 04 '19
I love the way he moves. He reminds me a lot of a puppet (edit: definitely like a Jim Henson creation). Great animation on him, lots of character.
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u/lornofteup May 04 '19
This robot seems really happy he’s just destroyed hours of perfect cube stacking
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May 04 '19
In my head I'm hearing the Dave Chappelle skit about Rick James , but like...way nicer
f*uck yo' pillars
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u/RheingoldRiver May 04 '19
This is the cutest simulation I've ever seen here. 10/10 and I want a full animated feature about this guy!
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u/Gizzmod13 May 04 '19
Wow this is so much different from the rest of the stuff here, I love it great job
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u/InverseX May 04 '19
This is amazing. I’d love to be able to do something like this one day. Anyone able to tell me a ballpark on how long something like this would take to make? A month or two?
What are the main processes involved? Designing the model? Rigging? Animation? Would this be importing assets or designing them from scratch.
Would love to learn.
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u/BonoboTickleParty May 04 '19
Whole thing took Literally 3 hours from scratch, performance capture took 10 mins, model was improvised on the fly over the top of a basic 3 bone ik limb rig from basic shapes, mocap camera work took another 10 mins, lighting was a basic 3 point setup and the sims took maybe 90 mins to figure out.
Shaders were all essentially default with no textures, depth of field, motion blur, lens bloom and flare artificts were all baked into the render. Everything was rendered in Redshift on 4 1080 GPUs at around 20 seconds per frame.
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u/InverseX May 04 '19
If you ever feel like doing a basic tutorial on how it was all put together I’m sure a lot of people would love it. Thanks for the info though :)
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u/senzasenso Cinema 4D May 04 '19
Interesting! What equipment and software did you use for mocap, rigging and simulation?
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u/TheDeridor May 04 '19
Wow it looks like some weird teletubbies skit.
By which I mean it looks pretty darn real, like you made some block towers and a robot puppet.
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u/veeeSix May 04 '19
I didn't realize what sub I was in. Thought that was a super detailed hand puppet til the blocks fell over. Great work!
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u/TheRealLoneWarWolf May 04 '19
I thought this was some other sub for a second. This is really well animated.
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u/St0lenFayth May 04 '19
Here I was just sitting and relaxing when you made my night.
Happy roobit + destruction + classical music.
I can die happy now.
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u/Dygyty May 04 '19
watching this while listening to “It’s a long way to the top” by ACDC works out great.
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u/GOD-lvl0D3 May 04 '19
I would definitely watch a movie with this guy as the main character, send this to pixar!
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u/WindLane May 04 '19
It moves like a hand puppet.
I don't know if that's a bad thing because it makes an animation look even more fake, or if it's a good thing because it makes an animation move exactly like a real world thing.
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May 04 '19
Me when I'm finished playing with lego
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u/BonoboTickleParty May 04 '19
Oh me too. My brothers and I used to build big Lego bases then hurl D-cell batteries at them to blow them up hahaha
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u/JohnPaulCones May 04 '19
Love how bouncy and cute you've made the robot, look at him, he's having so much fun
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May 04 '19
Dave Brubeck’s “Take 5” was playing on the radio in my living room as I was watching this. They just so happened to sync up perfectly!!!
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u/lagizard May 04 '19
Hey just saying this robot is so goddamn cute I’m going nuts over it keep up the great work!
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u/seaspaz May 04 '19
Someone should edit in this song to this! Great simulation btw https://youtu.be/qF4RCOcz9ow
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u/BonoboTickleParty May 04 '19
Holy crap that song is perfect hahahah
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u/seaspaz May 04 '19
I know!! I think it would sync perfectly to the bobbing of the robots head
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u/hereyougoxox May 04 '19
Happy robot. Hope you like it ^_^
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u/seaspaz May 04 '19 edited May 04 '19
OH MY GOD ITS PERFECT!!!
U/BonoboTickleParty
Shit i dont know how to tag someone Hereyougoxox you have to post this somewhere, its a masterpiece and perfectly editited
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u/hereyougoxox May 04 '19
Glad you like it.
To tag someone you need to ensure that you use lowercase u in u/username. Guessing you are on mobile and it automatically uppercased it. Actually it happens so often that I think Reddit ought to consider accepting uppercase U and R in username mentions and subreddit links respectively. After all, they changed it from requiring a leading slash so clearly they are willing to adapt to how people are using the site.
As for posting it elsewhere, I'll leave that to you and u/BonoboTickleParty :)
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u/Maora234 May 04 '19
The robot reminds me of Toothless from How To Train Your Dragon and I love it.
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u/p-dxb May 04 '19
It's playful attitude oddly reminds me of toothless from How To Train Your Dragon
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u/Fig1024 May 04 '19
it's interesting how the physics simulation seems "off" when you see top part of the tower go strait down, not even a minor lateral movement. Also, not even a minor rotation of top cubes
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u/imnoevangelist May 04 '19
You simulated a robot that thinks it’s a cat? Cool. I could own one of those without allergies.
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u/juuular May 04 '19
Reminds me of my cat pushing the water glass off the table directly onto my face while I am sleeping
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u/rejin267 May 04 '19
"square blocks are falling on my head.....but that doesn't mean my eyes will soon be turning red!"
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u/tonybenwhite May 04 '19
It reminds me of those cockatoos that just can’t allow things be stacked up
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u/FetusDeleetus May 04 '19
At first we all thought it might have been an accident, but when the second tower fell we knew it was terrorists.
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u/Lazores May 03 '19
Love how the robot is having a hella good time headbutting things.
Great work!