I notice today that I have the most-watched "heavy push" animation on all of YouTube. All done in Animation:Master, of course.

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Congrats! Excellent animation of course. However, all I can conclude is:

Once you've seen Roberts "heavy push" - ya don't have to see no more...or...

Whoevers doing a search on "heavy push" - might be looking for a birthing coach....or...

Robcat's got a RobBot - unleashed on Youtube

Kidding, kidding - well done!

Birthing coach... that Nancy!

THIS illustrates the POWER of Youtube! 20,000 views on an animation drill? RIDICULOUS! I had a notion that we should have a 'general A:M capabilities/Sales commercial' and place it on Youtube with an embedded link to the Hash.com homepage to try to harness some of those 'eyeballs' into sales of the program... seems more people are sitting down to watch the 'U' than regular television these-here-days. I personally spend a LOT of time on youtube watching old rock-n-roll videos (Beatles,Stones, Who) and getting free guitar lessons... even learning how to install wood floors!

Way to go, Rob. Congrats.

That's really nice animation Rob. Congrats on all the page views!
I was wondering ....
do you see how Chiku's title says "Heavy Push (animation on maya 8.5) By Chiku" ?
Maybe your title could be "Heavy Push (animation on Animation Master)" ?

... just a thought

Done. Didn't know you could change the title after you upload.

That's great!

Congrats, Robert!

Shoot. I thought this was going to be a topic about your pushiness "personally"... like when the Apple store told me I was annoying and crabby.



p.s. You'd think I'd have gotten over that by now wouldn't you?

-vern

Wow, awesome Pick Up Cafe too!! Funny as... heck.

Wet Greek? I just don't understand.



You've done it now. I looked at all of your vids.

That cat did NOT deserve a treat. That was the most non committal lackluster handshake in the history of trained animals. You could feel the disdain and lack of interesting coming of that beast in waves. You should make the cat watch the dog, have it learn by example.

-vern

The Heavy Push marches on...25,000 views as of today!

congrats

All them views and I still can't do it lol ,well done Robert

You the man Rob

That's just COOL!!!


Edit: OK, I'm told I'm showing my age.
I should have said "That's FIRE!"
Anyway, I think it's a great accomplishment you should be proud.

30,000 views as of today!

It seems to have quite a following in India.

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and yet another click, excellent !!

Wow, excellent. I love all the subtle movement in the character. Congratulations on all the views.

It has a huge following in India because that's where all the animator jobs are going. Next to IT support its one of thier fastest growing "Outsource Related" industries.

Congrats though, the fact that they are probably using it to learn really says something.

Strokes to you Robert.
I'm inspired by your work.

WOW...good observation! I recently was outbid and lost an account to Indian animators. Seems they are all on 'warez' software and work for next to nothing. People are getting miffed on Craigslist.com too, when someone asks for an experienced graphic designer or web-guru and offers to pay them $10 per hour... they get 'flamed' heavily... but they also probably get someone to do the work for that pay...

I hope they've put up an idol of me. Titanium would be nice.

I'm sure they have a bronze of you pushing a cow out of harms way in front of a vegetarian McDonalds or something.



I expect it will get much much worse. This business of outsourcing tech jobs without any financial repercussions to balance out the benefit has been a plague on our economy that is right up there with losing our manufacturing to Asia and things like NAFTA. The jobs are just gone and they won't be coming back. It's really frustrating because it's so shortsighted for companies to do this.

They all still want to sell thier products to Americans, they just don't want to pay them to create, manufacture or support thier products and oh how they scratch thier heads when people tell them that no one has the money to buy thier products. The belief in a capitalist system is supported by a bedrock idea that things that are of a benefit to the society a company services are to the benefit of the company and that to injure that society in any way is in fact injuring the company.

In short, America does well financially, the businesses that service America do well financially. But we've allowed a system to be created where companies make decisions to the detriment of thier communities (outsourcing to foriegn countries to reduce employment costs yes but also to avoid taxes, flout pollution and evironmental concerns and generally do things that are not permitted in this country... often for good reason, just as often because of beaurocratic bologny) without any short term repercussions and a good deal of short term gain.

Our transition to a service based economy is complete and now we are seeing those service jobs go elsewhere (I had a problem with my video card awhile back, called the company tech support, a Canadian number, was left on hold long distance for almost a half hour before being transferred to India where they blamed everything on my sound card and generally had no solution for the problem).

Pretty soon we will all be in sales, selling things made somewhere else to each other as fast as we can until one day people stop buying stuff for a minute and then all those chickens will come home to roost.

And I have nothing against the folks in India, Asia or Mexico who take these jobs at fractions of a penny on the dollar. They do what they can to get by. If your choices are goatherder or technical support well that's pretty much a no brainer. The companies who decide to go foriegn so they can gut any competition that refuses to follow thier example are entirely to blame, along with our political system and ourselves. But they are reaping the benefit of all the decades of hard work done by us (and by us I mean first world countries in general) without having the maturity or character to raise themselves out of the muck to be a first world country on thier own. And that creates a whole host of other problems. Like Pakistan having the bomb and being more likely to use it than any nation on Earth right now (technically Iran and North Korea, according to common knowledge, don't have it yet, and if Iran was even close I think Isreal probably would have attacked them already).

Just goes to show that selling a lifestyle to a foriegn country before they are ready is just as dangerous as selling weapons.

But try and tell any of this to anyone in corporate America these days and all you will see in thier eyes is their soul, willingly traded for the necessities of playing the game, locked in a cage and the devil laughing at you.

I lol'ed.

40,000 views as of today!

aw geez, and I was feeling special at having nearly 400 views on the ELZ opening. I just watched it though, it's very good, love how the character has character, despite all it's doing is pushing a large cylinder. I find youtube as a bit of an enigma really, how does one get a vid with that many views aside from using common titles like "Iron Man" or "Star Trek".

How many hits does it take before Youtube starts cutting you a check?

As I was re-encoding my tutorial videos last night for uploading to youtube (h.264 video, AAC audio), I had this thought:

Just like 22minutes is a standard length of time for a 1/2 TV episode [because of commercials], and creators script to that length of time--won't YouTube's 10minute length become a standard episode length for online content??? If so, then I should time my "Tar of Zandoria" episodes/chapters to hit that mark.

thoughts?

I think shorter is better on the web. I think part of Youtube's success is that it caters to short attention spans.

YouTube has a section for Web Original shows here (all live-action, it seems) and you can see the episode running times.

To be honest, Will, I'm thinking as good as Tar is likely to look, you can do them as long or as short as you want to ...but shorter would mean more episodes for the work invested.

that's a good question. I don't know what it is but I'm happy to watch a one- or two-hour show on TV but I get restless watching anything longer than five minutes on line. In my case it's because I'm geared to think about DOING something when I'm at the computer, but to be passive in front of the TV.

But to answer your question Will, I think shorter is better on the web, and you should be thinking in terms of 7-10 minutes and not more.