Slamacow

The rigs and items were made by TheAusFinn. He said that he wants to finish some more things before making them public. He does have his first rig on this site here:http://www.moddb.com/games/minecraft/downloads/3ds-max-minecraft-human-model-rigged-v05

As for tips and getting smooth movement. Just try contrasting between fast and slow transitions. I’m still getting new to it, I only have been animating for a few months since I started. I was mostly into motion graphics before 3D animation.

If you go to videocopilot: http://www.videocopilot.net/tutorials/

There are some tutorials in composting 3D objects on real footage. Check his tutorials relating to creating a meteor and a crater. Number 72

It was pre-keyed fire footage from Video Copilot’s Action Essentials 2. I then placed a mosaic effect on it for the pixelated look. 

My inspiration to make Minecraft animations came from BootstrapBuckaroo and CaptianSparklez. 

My inspiration for the silent film style animation comes from guyjcollins.  He has wonderful animatons: http://www.youtube.com/user/guyjcollins/videos 

My lighting is from 3ds max. I usually go into After Effects to do some slight color corrections on the image sequences. 

haha that would be cool. Maybe I’ll ask Greys sometime :)

I’m probably going to leave it at Bart and Dave for now. I might develop new ones down the road but I’m not sure yet.

Dave was a random name I came up with while brainstorming. Then Bart’s name came from the fact that he was a bartender :)

Not sure what the problem could be. Check out this tutorial by theAusFinn. He shows how to snap the boxes together correctly and it worked for me. 

http://youtu.be/f886jvK5dtE

It really depends. I’m a full time college student so it’s sometimes hard to get work done during some days. If I have a lot of free time I can sometimes go 2-6 hours a day.