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For the longest time I tried to build this complex roller coaster scene and it never went anywhere. I wanted to build a theme park around it or do some cool materials on it, but I could just never get it to become anything that wowed me. Basically I built the track around the text, and unfortunately I had to keyframe the cars to death, this doesn’t run on some sort of physics system.
Short & Gray: Roller Coaster from Michael Szabo on Vimeo.
I thought I could use an Align to Spline tag, but the animation wasn’t smooth enough because the car had to slow down and speed up fluidly on certain parts of the track. And it took me back to high school physics when we discussed roller coasters, and from that I learned that each car in the coaster makes up the speed in terms of the system, which is the combination of all the cars combined. So each car had to be angled and positioned individually, instead of just cloning a couple cars and being done with it. It was a huge hassle, so that’s why there are only 4 cars, because it took forever to put them in the right position.
All in all it’s OK, I purposefully kept the camera far back so you wouldn’t notice a few sketchy details.
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A Cinema 4D conspiracy theory:
Short & Gray: UFO Abduction from Michael Szabo on Vimeo.
I’m going to New York for like 2 weeks, trying to make something happen. Peace.
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Because bar graphs shouldn’t get all the love.
Short & Gray: Pie Chart from Michael Szabo on Vimeo.
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So I’ve got all of these unfinished projects that are just rotting on my hard drive. I come up with an idea and don’t know what to do with it. They are usually pretty simple, and I rack my brain trying to come up with a ground-breaking way to present my simple idea. It usually results in a dead end. So instead I’m just going to start posting them under the umbrella of “Short & Gray.” Since they will have just a plain old gray texture and be 5 seconds or less, the title fits. Maybe I will be able to use them down the road as part of a bigger project; it’s always good to have a library of random designs built and ready to go.
Here’s the first one, Jiggle Text:
Short & Gray: Jiggle Text from Michael Szabo on Vimeo.
It’s just some simple MoGraph using a Step Effector and a Delay Effector. The text is bouncy in a Jello type of way.
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