Animating Wall-E Style LED Eyes In 3D Studio Max & After Effects

Animating Wall-E Style LED Eyes In 3D Studio Max & After Effects

on Dec 26th 2011 with 9 comments
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Final Product What You'll Be Creating

In this tutorial you will learn how to create, animate and render LED style eyes for characters like robots or even some products while creating presentations. In most of the cases character animation and especially facial animation is easier since there is actual geometry representing parts of the face, but how do you work with characters that have a different design or no mesh to manipulate for animation?

Well in this tutorial you will discover that process in no time. We will go through the theoretical part and explain why and where you could use this technique and what are the benefits of the process. We start by setting up the 3d scene, jumping in to After Effects, setting up the project there and then head back to 3ds Max for the final animation and rendering.

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My name is Mile Eror and I am freelance 3D artist working on a wide variety of projects including games, movies and commercials. My specialty is hard surface modeling and texturing, animation and VFX. Main software packages that I use on a daily basis consist of 3ds Max with Vray, AfterEffects, Syntheyes for tracking, Photoshop and illustrator. In some cases I can jump into Mudbox for fine details and textures as tasks requires. I have gathered years of the experience inside 3D industry and still everyday trying to learn more and adopt my skills for ever-changing market. My portfolio and resume can be found at www.erorrijus.com and also on facebook at www.facebook.com/erorrijus  

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  • http://www.vfxrider.com Chandan Kumar

    Marvelous and Unusual! Keep it up!

  • http://www.youtube.com/user/badhon92?feature=mhee Badhon

    amazing. thnx for the tut

  • JOhn

    Awesome. I can think of a few different ways to tweak this and use it for various awesomeness. Like maybe an animated 3d plane that bounces with music, or creating images with the led’s. Great sound clip too.

  • Erorrijus
    Author

    Thanks for the comments guys and I hope you got some ideas for own projects. Tutorial itself is maybe on the self explanatory side, so in case you have some questions or suggestions just fire away, always welcome :) This idea can be taken to different level and using same approach you can use this for tech products that use led displays and plasma screens.. Also using morph targets and spline-animation you can achieve some pretty cool things.

  • Allan Rumjantsev

    Less ‘here’s and ‘over here’s and your tuts become perfect :)

  • http://3dlib.org 3dlib.org

    Very Nice Tut. Thanks for Sharing.

  • http://www.ikaami.com Matt

    Awesome tut! Just one question- how did you render the final outcome? Vray?

    Thanks,
    Matt

    • http://www.erorrijus.com erorrijus
      Author

      hi matt,

      yes.. Final render was done with Vray and post done in AE.

  • wq

    \(^o^)/~