I need your help with a short zombie animation

Fetito

Help!

I was playing around with DAZ3D 4.6 and I need help with my rendered animation.

http://youtu.be/nZcEAhCyPpE

Here is a list of issues that I was not able to resolve:

1. At 00:08 a spotlight changed its position, although I parented it to the zombie-figure. Why?
2. The AniMate 2 transition between at 00:08 is not smooth. Is there a way to combine both movement (the aggressive one and the dance)?
3. The same issue appears at 00:22. The transition between the dancing movements and the “thank you” is very abrupt. How can I smooth it?
4. How can I make the eyes of the zombie glow?

Thank you!

Steve K

patrickgobels said:

4. How can I make the eyes of the zombie glow?

Thank you!

I don't use DAZ Studio, so I can't help much, but it must have something similar to Carrara for the glow. In the screenshot below, I have a sphere selected, and in the "Texture Room" I select the "Glow" channel for the sphere's shader. Then I have various options for the glow (texture map, 0-100%, etc.) I have selected "color", then dialed the red on the popup color wheel. Of course, you would select the Zombie's eyes, then adjust the shader.

HTH.

Steve K.

Fetito

@Steve K: Thank you!

Anyone else could please help me with the remaining questions?

John Sims

Daz can be a little idiosyncratic with links. Based on the amount of movement you have in the scene I think you would be better to keyfame the light.

You would perhaps be best to convert the sequence out of Animate to keyfames to fix the transition, you could then also address his feet going through the floor.

A nice clip though. I found the door with no surrounding wall a bit distracting and the lighting too bright to be sinister in the first bit or disco in the second. I would also consider some additional camera angles to cut to to give a more film like look.

John Sims

Glowing eyes - Select the Zombie figure and open the surfaces tab. Open up the zombie selection tree and scroll down to cornea. Adjust the material parameters until you get something you like.

I don't recall Daz doing an offset glow so you could cheat by creating two spheres slightly larger than his eyes give them an almost transparent material in the color of the glow and locate over his eyes. Better effects could be achieved in post though subject to what software you use. I recommend HitFilm as a cheap, feature rich, editor for creating composites. It is very powerful and nowhere near the prohibitive cost of Adobe After Effects.

Fetito

@John Sims: Thank you for your help!