Hi everyone, here goes with my first post on swoj.com.

Presenting the long awaited (or it would have been if I had told anyone I was working on it):
Sticks: The Art Of The Chopstick.

Here are some images:



The animation can be viewed here:
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=ftjblH2f58k

or on my website (still under construction) here:
http://www.m4gnet.co.uk/chopstick.html

I am planning on making a longer one.
If enough people like them, I might make a 4 - 6 part mini - series. Hope everyone likes it.

Hi,
The voice was a last min job, added 20mins before I released the video. I will make sure to sort the vocals out before I release the next one

As for software, I used:
Maya for the main scene.
AE for the 'Sticks' intro and for final adjustments to the whole video.
Blender for the Earth
Creative X-Fi Audio Creation Mixer for sfx
Windows sound recorder for the vocals (last minute thing)

The Art of The Chopstick was made as a test, partly to see how to make a fluid 3d stickman animation and partly as I had a couple of hours to test Maya Unlimited on a friends machine (Yes I will be buying it as soon as I can). I mostly use Truespace and Blender for 3D at the moment.