Hey guys, so I’m gonna give you a behind-the-scenes look at my latest animation, “Animation vs. Minecraft.” So this was a fun challenge, recreating the 3-D world of Minecraft on a 2-dimensional desktop. As all of my previous animations, this one was animated entirely in Adobe Flash. So I started by gathering the textures from a default Minecraft resource pack. I picked out the ones I would need, doubled their size, and then put them into Flash. I built the structures by starting with a grid of blocks, and replacing blocks until I was done. And that’s how I made the house, the windmill, and the trees. But then later, I discovered the pixel brush tool plugin. That made my life so much easier, because I could literally paint with Minecraft blocks. And that’s how I was able to animate the giant cobblestone and obsidian stick figure. I recorded myself playing Minecraft and went through the footage frame by frame so I could accurately animate all the effects, like the TNT explosion, the zombies dying, skeletons getting hit, creepers exploding, etc. The block breaking animation was accomplished by cutting up the texture into 3 different pieces And then animating 16 of them going in different directions frame by frame. And then for each type of block that got destroyed, I would replace the 3 pieces with 3 new pieces, with a different texture. In order to make 3-D characters using a 2-D program, I had to cheat a little bit. So all the things that look 3-D, like the zombies, the creepers, and the spinning cube at the beginning, are just an illusion. Adding diamond armor to every single frame would have taken me an additional month or 2, if I didn’t hire some helpers to add it for me. They spent a combined 150 hours just on adding diamond armor. Each piece of the armor set was made to fit multiple angles. The most tedious scene was the skeleton scene, every single arrow had to be accounted for. The longer the scene dragged on, the more arrows built up. So by the end, when the creeper blows them up, each of the hundred arrows had to be animated to fly in a slightly different direction and land in a slightly different place. So this animation took over 800 hours, Even longer than the 738 hours that it took to make “Animator vs. Animation IV”, and not including the 150 hours spent by my diamond armor helpers. I never expected it to take THIS long. And for the next animation, I hope to put a lot less food on my plate, So I could get it done much more quickly. So thanks for watching, and if this kind of stuff is interesting to you, then you can come check out my tutorial channel here. And if you want to help me get these animations done more quickly, Please visit my Patreon page by clicking here. So thanks for watching, and I’ll see you later. Video Information
This video, titled ‘Behind the Scenes – Animation vs. Minecraft’, was uploaded by Alan Becker on 2015-12-15 06:47:36. It has garnered 6522296 views and 126988 likes. The duration of the video is 00:02:43 or 163 seconds.
Watch Animation vs. Minecraft: https://youtu.be/GW_fdXHOWp4
Pixel Brush Tool Plugin: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/9979510/pixeltools.mxp
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