Animation

Annecy International Film Festival

The Annecy Inter­na­tional Ani­ma­tion Fes­ti­val launched yes­ter­day and is cur­rently cel­e­brat­ing its 50^th birth­day! This is the world’s largest event solely ded­i­cated to animation.

Aie Robot Short Film

This is our very first short film cre­ated circa 2004. We are aware of its short­com­ings and weak­nesses but we love it like a first child!

We thought we should post it here for every­one to see just for the fun of it.

Animation Preview

Here is a pre­view of part of Roshanak’s ani­ma­tion done by Saman Khor­ram. This is just an OpenGL cap­ture with­out motion blur or ren­der­ing.
Pre­view 1:

Ani­ma­tion Pre­view 01

Pre­view 2:

Ani­ma­tion Pre­view 02

Pre­view 3:

Ani­ma­tion Pre­view 03

rigging problems

Due to lack of time the main prob­lems we encoun­tered dur­ing the rig­ging and ani­ma­tion process were two main issues:

1– Cre­at­ing a solid enve­lope that would not break dur­ing the animation

2– Cre­at­ing believ­able move­ments for hair and clothings.

For the first one, our lead ani­ma­tor, Saman Khor­ram who was charged with the ani­ma­tion of the main char­ac­ter Roshank, decided to forgo the pri­mary rig and cre­ate one of his one which would be more sta­ble and easy to work with, and took care of the envelop­ing so that it wouldn’t cre­ate any prob­lems dur­ing animation.

Our other ani­ma­tor, Farhad Youssefi, decided to stay with the pri­mary rigs and ani­mated the father and the mother.