I done this last night as I was messing with renders for my animation project...
Have a look, tell me what you think.
Have a look, tell me what you think.
FOUND EDGES - TROY BROWNE - AVI
MUSIC - BJORK - POSSIBLY MAYBE
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NEW ANIMATION PREVIEW
PAKA-PAKA (ANIMATION TESTS) - TROY BROWNE - AVI
MUSIC - SQUAREPUSHER - DELTA-V
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BOARDGAME ANIMATION PROJECT PREVIEW
Ive put together a sequence of my test animations as a sort of preview for my final animation.
Everything is still in concept mode so alot may change still. Comments appreciated... bo!
PAKA-PAKA(PREVIEW) - TROY BROWNE - AVI
MUSIC - SQUAREPUSHER -DELTA V
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MIRRORS EDGE
MIRRORS EDGE - EA - PC/PS3/XBOX360
Mirrors Edge by EA has just come out on various formats. It features 'runners', charcters that use city rooftops as a means of getting about in a Parkour-ish style. It was pointed out by Phil who compared my early design ideas to this title so I downloaded the demo for PS3 and had a little go... its a really fresh idea for the first person genre, considering guns are not used your skill lies in escaping danger quickly. The game has a real flow controlwise and looks amazing and is quite simular to the direction of my project.
MIRRORS EDGE - EA - PC/PS3/XBOX360 - timetrialmode
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MORE ENVIRONMENTS
ENVIRONMENT CONCEPT#4 - TROY BROWNE - PNG
Here are more environment tests... I say tests but they will definitely be part of my final 'board' design. I really like these shots, the shadows that are created from the staircase are really nice and they give to the sense of atmosphere... another thing I may need to work on is the surrounding environment IE; birds, clouds, debris... ENVIRONMENT CONCEPT#5 - TROY BROWNE - PNG
ENVIRONMENT CONCEPT#6 - TROY BROWNE - PNG
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SPANKING THE MONKEY
'CHOPS' - CONCEPT IMAGE#1 - TROY BROWNE - PNG
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Say hello to 'CHOPS'... CHOPS is the monkey character in my 'board game' project... the image is only a concept and I'll be tweaking it, he probably wont be wearing a gas mask...
'CHOPS' - CONCEPT IMAGE#2 - TROY BROWNE - PNG.png)
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ENVIRO-MENTAL
ENVIRONMENT CONCEPT#1 - TROY BROWNE - PNG
...yes 3DS Max, yes Ink and Paint... Ive been working in my sketchpad and still will, but feel its more practical to 'sketch' ideas in 3DS Max. So here are a few environment tests. 
...yes 3DS Max, yes Ink and Paint... Ive been working in my sketchpad and still will, but feel its more practical to 'sketch' ideas in 3DS Max. So here are a few environment tests. I really like them but feel its too normal for the idea I have in my head, its a start though.
ENVIRONMENT CONCEPT#2 - TROY BROWNE - PNG
ENVIRONMENT CONCEPT#3 - TROY BROWNE - PNG
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GREAT EXAMPLE OF PARKOUR
Ive been looking into Parkour and have watched quite a few videos, they all got abit repetitive until I stumbled across this four man group, Team Tempest. They operate out of Los Angeles, California and have had lots of appearances on American TV. Watch the video and see for yourself....
FREERUN LA - TEAM TEMPEST - YOUTUBE
...if anyone else can point me in the direction of anything better, please do.
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KISS MY GAS
GAS MASKED CONCEPT#1 - TROY BROWNE - PNG
...these are just concept images for my gas masked free runner. Again, done on 3DS Max and just to get an idea of the style of my characters and environment.
GAS MASKED CONCEPT#2 - TROY BROWNE - PNG
GAS MASKED CONCEPT#3 - TROY BROWNE - PNG 
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DODGY BIPED BULLET TIME
PARKOUR SEQUENCE#1 - TROY BROWNE - PNG
PARKOUR SEQUENCE#2 - TROY BROWNE - PNG
PARKOUR SEQUENCE#3 - TROY BROWNE - PNG
PARKOUR SEQUENCE#4 - TROY BROWNE - PNG
(Parkour image - BennehBoy - Flickr)
Here I was messing around with Biped animation on 3DS Max. I found some really usefull reference images of Parkour (FreeRunning). They were taken sequentially of the postures required in a 'move', similar to the images they used in the Olympics to show the postures of a Horse vault. I basically married each stage of the posture on the timeline and let 3DS Max do the rest. I admit that they're not very smooth animations but give basic animations to work from and study.
BIPED BULLET TIME - TROY BROWNE - AVI
As well as testing the animation side I found it made sense to experiment with the camera angles too. So done this dodgy bullet time render. I think it works well and would like to carry on with experiments like this.
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