As just one example, Reiss Studio in Los Angeles sells (or sold, until their technology was acquired by Smith Micro for use in Poser) the Reiss Body Studio series of Poser conversion products. Pricing for these conversion tools tends to range from $150 to $300. Vendors used proprietary file formats, resulting in a broad aftermarket for third-party file-format conversion tools: convert 3dsMax to Maya, convert Cinema4D to 3dsMax, convert Poser to Maya, and so on. In the past, many 3D applications, incredibly, often made the assumption that you'd do your entire animation project in the same application: content selection, modeling, texturing, rigging, animation, rendering.
The writing is on the wall, and it's good news for hobbyist 3D animators: software vendors are moving in the direction of content interchange: the easy, or at least vaguely easy, ability to take 3D content from one application and move it into another. My hope is that this site can be a place to discuss 3DCG and its use (or paucity of use) by the anime fan community, and the idea of seeing more anime fan films, created by more fans, in the future. Over time, I'll post some "making of" articles here, and offer some dives into the technical weeds of creating a 3DCG animated trailer inspired by now-classic anime characters.
The creation of the 90-second (60 seconds if you only count the original footage) Daughter of Steel teaser trailer has a multi-year history that involves a lot of technical trial and error, sweat and teeth-gnashing, steep learning curves, and seemingly endless reading. Or maybe we should call them "FOVAs" - Fan OVAs. Perhaps the DoS trailer represents one extremely small step towards what could become a new, or at least more common, type of anime fan art: the anime fan film. Prior to the release, various posts here will focus on the creative and technical process of making a 3DCG anime fan film like DoS.Īlthough the American anime fan community has been making anime music videos for decades, so far we haven't seen a lot of original, fan-produced animation coming specifically out of anime fandom.
Feel free to sign up for the mailing list, and you'll be one of the first to read about it when the trailer goes live for download. 29, 2008), the trailer is not yet released - the scheduled release date is May 24, coinciding with the trailer's premiere at Fanimecon. As of the current date of this post (Apr.
Welcome to, the official site of the Daughter of Steel (aka "DoS") fan teaser trailer for a non-existent movie about fictional characters who live in the universe of a real movie, the 20-year-old anime classic Project Ako. (This is a sticky article that always shows up at the top of the page.)