I didn't want people getting confused, so I made this quick update video explaining things up for the YouTube folks. Also, you guys are gonna have to wait a little bit for the rewards this month, because I have to finish the episode first!
No progress bar in this update, because there are no animated sequences yet. I spent most of my time last week making assets, and modifying the celestia rig. I got rid of some unnecessary expressions in the controls, and completely changed the way that the l...
2017-10-02 06:57:12 +0000 UTC
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New WIP video! There's a short clip at the end with some footage of the episode, TBFP fans will probably be able to tell what game they're playing :)
As you can see, this scene is almost done! There's just a little bit left to animate, and I'll take care of that tomorrow. After that's done I'm going to start working on a new episode!
Yup! Halloween is coming and it's time...
2017-09-20 00:18:26 +0000 UTC
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I finally animated some stuff this weekend! So I think now is a good time to introduce you guys to the "progress bar":
This is something that I do in after effects, where I keyframe different colors in a shape layer, and I use it as a guide to manage all the shots in a scene. Not only it helps me keep organized, but it's also a great tool to track the completion of the episode.
This is only the first scene though, the entire episode is go...
2017-09-12 07:15:48 +0000 UTC
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Here's a quick update before we get to the rewards. I've been organizing the characters in the scene, working on the lipsync and keyframing some basic blocking poses. It makes my job a lot easier to have all this stuff setup before I start animating. I'll have some cool stuff to show next week!
Basic Asset Pack:https://www.patreon.com/posts/basic-...
2017-09-07 17:19:35 +0000 UTC
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Cadence is almost done! I just need two more days to finish the shadow masks, and everything will be ready! I'm also completely free in September, which means that I'm going to start animating this thing super hard!
And here's the intro that I made for Matt, he's playing some spider-man games on his channel, go check that out:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Icp3I4o_L-g
2017-08-29 12:27:29 +0000 UTC
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I thought that maybe I could save some time by duplicating the new twilight rig and swapping the body parts with the old cadence rig, but that didn't quite work out...
This is going to be a super quick update! I'm still working on a new intro for Matt. It's been a ton of work, and there's a lot of stuff that I want to show you guys, but I'm pretty sure Matt doesn't want me to spoil anything. For the TBSP stuff, I'm still working on cadence (you can see how that's going...), but last week...
2017-08-14 11:43:28 +0000 UTC
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Basic Asset Pack:https://www.patreon.com/posts/basic-asset-pack-12674978 Another unused background, this is the kitchen from the player's house. All the furniture and items are available in PNG and AEP (CC 2015).
Big Asset Pack:2017-08-03 12:29:20 +0000 UTC
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Twilight is done! The rig works just like luna and celestia, but I actually tried to do something different with the face rigging. I don't know if you guys watched the trailer for the mlp movie, but the facial animation is amazing! The show uses Flash animation but the movie is animated in Toon Boom Harmony, which has great character rigging tools! Unlike After Effects... I spent the past week experimenting with various ways to create something similar. And I've kind of figured out a solution:&n...
2017-07-25 13:15:14 +0000 UTC
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I've just finished editing this video. I guess people call these "speed animating", it doesn't sound as good as speed painting. All the footage here is from the last scene of Fallout 4. Check it out if you're interested in the animation process, there's even some 3D modeling there.
I spent the past few days organizing stuff and making a few videos for the patreon, but now I can finally start working on the new episode! I won't reveal the name of the game just yet, but it's a Matt, Woolie...
2017-07-12 12:08:23 +0000 UTC
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I just finished adding all the rewards! And everything is set up in a way that it won't spam you Inbox with a ton of posts! Basically each reward tier has it's own post, I'll edit new stuff in every month, and make one public post listing all the new stuff that I added.
So let's start with episode downloads: https://www.patreon.com/posts/tbsp-downloads-12673963 say goodbye to that shi...
2017-07-08 11:57:59 +0000 UTC
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July - 2017: T-45 Power Armor
2017-07-08 10:37:06 +0000 UTC
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July - 2017: Fallout 4 Asset Pack 01
2017-07-08 10:30:53 +0000 UTC
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If you're having any issues with the links, just send me a PM and I'll fix it asap!
Fallout 4
Fallout 4 Living Room - Fallout 4 Kitchen - 2017-07-08 10:28:42 +0000 UTC
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- Two Best Sisters Play...
2017-07-08 10:11:47 +0000 UTC
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Here it is!
First of all, let me thank you guys! Because this would not have been possible without you! Thank you very much for all your support and all of your patience! You're all very kind!
I'm really, really sorry it took this long, I severely underestimated those action scenes. So let me assure you that I'll be changing things up for the next one. I don't want to leave you guys waiting again!
I started working on this episode a long time ago, and it ended up turning into the b...
2017-07-05 00:53:54 +0000 UTC
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It's done!
I managed to work around the RAM issue by splitting up some of the more heavy sequences and rendering each one separately. Unfortunately I had to re-animate a ton of shots this month (mostly 3D stuff), so I just finished editing the final scene yesterday. But it's finally done!
Animation and editing 100% complete.
I was going to render and upload this thing today, but I hit export, and Adobe Premiere gives me this bullshit. I'm guessing there is something wrong wit...
2017-06-30 22:06:10 +0000 UTC
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I never experienced this before, but I guess 32GB didn't cut it.
The combination of the timewarp effect with multiple 4096x4096 layers is eating up all my RAM.
But here's a couple of good news:
The animation on the 3D character is complete!
There's not much left to animate in after effects.
And the the length of the episode it's getting close to 20 minutes now.
So I'll try to split up the render for the final scene, and if that doesn't work, I'll just straight up buy some...
2017-06-02 11:56:20 +0000 UTC
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I was worried about the 3D character when I started, and it took me a day or two to get used to maya again. But now I'm having no trouble with the animation! I just got to fix some minor bugs with the rendering. The real time consuming task is composing all the footage in after effects. There's a ton of layers, masks, expressions and pre-comps for each shot, so the timeline can get easily cluttered.
And oh boy! I can't wait to finish this! Cuz I...
2017-05-15 14:53:06 +0000 UTC
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Sorry for the lack of updates! I'm doing some animation work for Matt, so it's been kind of busy.
That character I was working on is done! And it was the last one. no more rigging for this episode!
I Fixed some animation errors in the previous scenes, and animated some new stuff, including a pretty cool suiting up sequence!
I also spent a lot of time detailing all the blood in some of these shots:
Yeah! Things get pretty intens...
2017-04-21 14:53:04 +0000 UTC
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What's up, y'all! I animated some more stuff these past two weeks, and now I'm working on some character rigging for the final scene. I can't show the final rendered image, but you can see how the head works in this gif. It's all 3d shape layers being driven by expressions, and I'm able to control all of it by moving a single null object. So the head is pretty much done, I just gotta finish the leg vectors to start rigging the body.
Y...
2017-03-29 10:25:25 +0000 UTC
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Here's a special TBSP episode! It took two weeks of really hard work to animate it, but it was totally worth it. I've always wanted to revisit the Assassin Creed episode. The original TBFP video is so goddamn funny, All the setup to get the achievement, Pat's insane laughter at the end, everything is just perfect! TBSP probably wouldn't exist without it.
When I animated the first episode five years ago, I was still learning after effects, and I wasn't taking the thing seriously. It was suppose...
2017-03-15 18:14:34 +0000 UTC
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Editing all the sound effects was a nightmare, and I had to go back to fix a bunch of animation errors. But scene 09 is finally 100% done. And I'm happy to announce that the episode is now officially over 15 minutes long! And it's gonna get even longer! I'm expecting it to be over 17 minutes long after the final scene is finished.
But right now, I'm gonna take a small break from this episode, to work on a special TBSP video for this month!
It's gonna be pretty good! :3
2017-03-01 05:29:04 +0000 UTC
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Here's some more WIP gootage. And a new intro for the Best Friends: https://youtu.be/pdBoOjg_aK0
I had to deal with some PC issues last week! All of a sudden, my motherboard wasn't detecting any SATA devices. So I was desperately switching ports and cables, trying to find the cause of the problem. And for a moment there, I thought that all my hard drives were dead. Fortunately that was not the case! Turns out my power supply ...
2017-02-14 08:49:23 +0000 UTC
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Still working on scene 09.
Man... These fire sequences take way too much time to make (lots of layers and comps to achieve the effect). I still gotta fix some stuff here, but I think this is the last one. No more fire in this episode!
I also changed the Best Friends intro for the new season. You can check out the first episode here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v...
2017-02-02 23:32:15 +0000 UTC
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Oh boy, this video is a week late! I had a lot more stuff to talk about, but I just couldn't put any more time into this update. Sorry!
2017-01-21 08:44:19 +0000 UTC
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I had to deal with some rendering issues this week! After effects wasn't loading the correct frames for the characters mouths, and it was really messing up the lip-sync! I had never experienced this problem before with CS5, so It took me some time to find out the source of the problem. Turns out it's because of the image cache system that they implemented in CS6. You have to enable the preserve frame rate option in the composition settings to fix it.
I actually tested six different After Effec...
2017-01-07 11:14:30 +0000 UTC
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Happy new year everybody!
I just finished all of the two best sisters sequences in this scene! Now I gotta animate all the other enemy characters. One of them is going to catch on fire! That should be fun!
The month of December just ended, and I feel like it could have been a lot more productive. So let's start this year with a production schedule!
http://i.imgur.com/kiwK9ZZ.png
Th...
2017-01-01 18:15:45 +0000 UTC
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Show Liam some support:
https://www.reddit.com/r/TwoBestFriendsPlay/comments/5jxitb/i_am_leaving_super_best_friends_play/
I blame everything on David Cage.
I was working on this video non-stop for a day now. And just as I was finishing, I found out about Liam leaving SBFP. I had to completely scrap the last segment and redo everything. And the to...
2016-12-24 13:59:59 +0000 UTC
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Rough week everybody. Didn't do a lot of animation but I did a lot of rigging. Another 3D character from the game, and something completely different, a user interface. I had to blend some of the game's UI with the animation, and I needed customizable items and options. So I figured that the best way to do that, was to recreate part of the UI inside after effects, and rig it just like a character. It probably doesn't make much sense describing it like this, but I'm gonna show how it works after ...
2016-12-17 02:11:45 +0000 UTC
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There will be no bananas in the final version.... Sorry!
Finished editing last week's sequence, Animated some more, and got most of the lip sync done for this scene (~2 minutes long).
PC Update
Finally bought everything! I'm expecting all the parts to arrive in the mail next week!
2016-12-10 09:00:43 +0000 UTC
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