The Autiton Archives WIP Blog

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I haven't had enough time to keep this site up to date with the production, but have been posting steady progress to the WIP threads on SpinQuad. I’ve been deep in production of the pilot as well as writing the book about the project: Creating a 3D Animated CGI Short: The Making of The Autiton Archives - Fault Effect to be published later this year by WordWare an imprint of Jones and Bartlett Publishers. ISBN: 1-59822-070-5 The book will follow the entire production process of creating a 3D animated CGI short, from concept to completion. I’ll be writing it as I go through the production process of the pilot episode of The Autiton Archives titled Fault Effect. If you’ve been following along in my various WIP threads about the project you’ll have a good idea of some of the topics that will be covered in much greater detail in the book. If there’s something you’d like detailed in the book, be sure to ask questions in the WIP threads. Stay tuned!

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Welcome to The Autiton Archives WIP BLOG

The Autiton Archives™

The adventures of anomalous Autiton™ units 0090™ & 03BD™ who embark on an epic quest of discovery through the fantastic digital realms of cyberspace.

Deep in the hidden depths of cyberspace a vast lattice of instance generators creates an endless stream of software Autitons to toil away at various mundane tasks for the duration of their functional lives. Until a freak accident causes a disruption that spawns an anomalous Autiton unit – 0090, imbuing him with the curiosity to dare to ask "Why?" 0090 befriends a fellow irregular unit – 03BD, and together these two misfit Autitons set out through the strange digital worlds of cyberspace on a quest for answers.

The Autiton Archives™ is a 3D animated series of CGI shorts to be released on the Web. It’s a project with a 20+ year evolution. Ever since the inception of DreamLight Interactive in 1987 I’ve been periodically researching and testing the viability of producing an online 3D animated series with off-the-shelf hardware and software. Until recently, these tests typically indicated that the technology wasn’t quite ready to create such a project. The research did however result in a number of successful spin-off projects over the years including: DreamLight Verttice™: An Award-winning Game of Skill & Strategy, Quipples™: The Internet Game Show of Satirical Riddles and finally BlastOff!™ An Award-winning 3D Animated Short Film.

With the recent success of the test project BlastOff!, the incredible power of the new LightWave 3D 9.6 UB, phenomenal workstations like Apple’s 8-core Mac Pro and a direct distribution link through the Internet, iPods, iPhone and Apple TV, all the necessary components of technology have risen to a level that will finally enable me to create the Autiton Archives series as I had always envisioned it.

I’m thrilled to finally be in full production on The Autiton Archives: Episode 000 - Fault Effect™

Be sure to check the WIP threads periodically to see the latest progress during production and look for the book to be released later this year.

Please let me know what you think about the project by sending in a DreamLight feedback form and/or participating in my online discussion WIP threads about this project on the SpinQuad forums.

Enjoy the ride,

Michael Scaramozzino
President and Creative Director

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Contents

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What’s New

Welcome to The Autiton Archives WIP BLOG

Instance Generator Lattice: Opening Establishing Shot

• Creating a Massive 3D Lattice with LW HD Instance
• Modeling the Instance Generator Lattice in modo
• Initial Concept for the Instance Generator Lattice

3D Character Animation: Walk Cycle & Lip Sync Studies

• 3D Character Animation IK Booster Walk Cycle Studies of 0090 in LightWave 3D 9.5
• 3D Character Facial Animation Morph Mixer
  & Lip Sync “Tuna Fish” Test of 0090 in LightWave 9.3.1

3D Character Design: The Evolution of NineOh (0090)

• 0090 v3.5: Nodal Texturing & Lighting
  for 3D Character Animation in LightWave 9.5
• 0090 v3.0: Redesigning 0090 3D model in modo 2.03
  for 3D Character Animation in LightWave 9.3.1
• 0090 v2.0: Upgrading 0090 for LightWave 8.5 &
  BlastOff! An Award-winning 3D Animated Short Film
• 0090 & 03BD v1.0: The First Autitons, Initial Tests &
  Quipples: The Internet Game Show of Satirical Riddles
• Before the Autitons there was 2K – The First Microbot
  & Verttice an Award-winning Game of Skill & Strategy
• 0090 & 03BD’s Distant 2D Ancestors – Impith & Oogles

SpinQuad WIP Discussion Threads

• Instance Generator Effects WIP
• Characters for 3D Animated Web Series Pilot (FINISHED)
• The Butterfly Effect WIP
• Designing the pre-0090 Autitons (TM) WIP
• Instance Generator Lattice WIP
• 0090: 3D Character for Animated Series (Finished)
• 0090: Tuna Fish - Lip Sync Test
• 0090: 3D Character for Animated Series WIP

DreamLight Interactive Releases New ScreamerNet UB Launcher

DLI_SNUB-Launcher™ is an XCode Aqua GUI front end to interactively configure and launch multiple LightWave 3D 9.3.1 ScreamerNet UB instances for standalone, batch and network rendering. Download your copy today!

Created by the author of Mastering LightWave ScreamerNet Rendering for Mac OS X, Michael Scaramozzino - LightWave 3D Artist Profile.

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