Motion Department

Everything on this website with a ❌ is still being voted on, everything with a ✅ is already definitive.

(this is mainly for riggers and modeling.)

• Rigid limbs ONLY (except in very rare instances or when smearing!)

• Detached shoulders

• No hands, fingers, or toes!

• 3D animation

• 2D pixelated smear frames (duplicate limbs for effect)

• (Mixed texture packs:)

  • Background: Bare Bones resource pack

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  • Custom made resource pack that looks like vanilla with a few tweaks to make it more detailed for the movie

• Inspired by Minecraft update trailers

• 24 fps (on 2s for slow character movements, camera will ALWAYS stay on ones)

• Animating on 1s: (mostly) 

  • Exceptions: action sequences will be animated on 2s or higher. 

• STYLIZED (2D) Animated faces! Example

• Spline animation so far

• Smoke, fire, and other non solids are to be animated in 2D Pixel-Art at half the framerate of the scene directly on Screen.

• Small beveled edges?

 - To be fully decided later. Current idea is to elect a group of 3-5 people who will take charge of the overall organization and animation of the project to ensure consistency and that work does get done. We will hold elections / campaigns for these positions. 

 - We will also delegate positions here once a standard set has been agreed upon (main, side, crowd, fight, etc. animators).

(You won’t be limited by software!)

• Blender

• Mine-imator

• Axiom

• World Painter (for custom world generation) 

• Chunk Base

• Maya (if you have it) 

• Cinema 4D (if you have it) 

• Custom Minecraft Java mod with ML enhanced animation

• Luanti / Minetest + Meshport

Add-Ons

• MCPrep (Blender addon for importing Minecraft assets: blocks, skins, mobs, worlds)

• MI Blend (MCPrep but with more and better features.)

• Mineway (Blender addon for full world imports)

• Chunky (Use this to convert Bedrock worlds into Java for better Blender compatibility) 

Blockbench (For getting vanilla entity models into Blender)

If we are doing this based on voting, then we just need to get some animators together to animate the same thing in different styles for people to vote on.

Possible Styles:

• Rising Kingdom

• Official Minecraft Trailer

• Blue Monkey

• Original/New Style

Official Website✅

Jira board❌

Animator Files Google Drive Link✅❌

Writers Brainstorm Doc (Please review, there still are some points we need to know)

Music Brainstorm Doc

Add yourself to the Animators Sheet!