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.

T.

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
T.

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.

T.