Naruto recent Power breakdown Mayhem

Sage Art yin release lightning claw, Frightening thunder attacks, Sage technique storm release light fang, Sage Art magnet release rasengan plus the six paths chakra, are pretty much the first things you'll see in The Naruto Manga 674 when you start to read. Yeah it came out last week and another episode will be coming out this week. If you've been following The Manga you'll realize how strong Madara Uchiha has become. So strong that he is able to destroy the whole world all by himself without any tech gadgets, virus or missiles. Truth be told, He's on a god-like level now such that the ones that we used to consider as strong when we started watching the anime or reading the manga are now like pebbles under his feet and worse still even as they are put together. If you do not understand how strong this man Villain is, I'll break it down to you in simple lay man terms.

The powers embodied within Madara Uchiha will destroy Superman. No, It will most likely destroy SuperMan, Thor and Hulk put together. How You ask? Ok, He is supposed to have two eyes like everyone else, But before he died as a mortal, He gave one of them to Obito Uchiha Obito who at the time was his protege and later becoming The number one Top Dog Villain in the anime. Now, with the Rinegan, You could summon a monstrous statue called the Gedo Mazo. The Gedo Mazo, is a Monstrous living statue having the life form of a human but without a face.Always roaring like one crazy gorilla that broke free from jail wanting to cause havoc. I think its about thirty meters or more high, and filled with over exagerated but pure energy. It's big and Fast, and can suck into itself anything with the help of whoever is actually controlling it and it's usually summoned. See, only The Gedo Mazo will destroy Hulk, It roars more and it's bigger and a lot faster and can suck Hulk into another dimension, or even crush Him in a fight. just My thought though so all ye Hulk fans please go easy on me. Now, still on the Rinegan, It has the power of life and death, in that it can either bring to life or cause death and such is the case of Nagato "Pain". It was said that Madara also gave pain his Rinegan.

Again while he was still alive, in one of his fights with Hashirama Senju, he stole the latters DNA and implanted it in Himself because Hashirama's bloodline was known to have a very durable and strong body and could go toe to toe with tailed beasts and stuffs like that. So this is the scenario. You've gat a Mad man waking up from the dead via Kabuto's "edo Tensei", beating up all the five kages like he's playing tennis for fun and in possesion of a devastating rinegan eye. And now, because Naruto and Sasuke died via this same brute beating them to a pulp, they wake up in the presence of  "The sage of the six paths", He explains somethings to them, gives them powers very much close to what Madara has and says to them "okay go get em knuckle heads" and that brings you to the very first line in this post. Yeah, they really are powerful now. so powerful that they got Madara running and has turned to a petty thief stealing my beloved kakashi sensei's sharingan because it is visually connected to Obito's and has probably kamuied his way down there and who knows, Sakura might probably be on her way to death valley.

Well nice chapter and as always, you've gotta give it to Kishi. But the thing is, there now is a whole lot of deviation from when it all started to now. They started as mortal ninjas more like the Tenage Turtle Ninjas or slightly higher because of their jutsus and now, these guys would easily make stakes out of Zeus. Darn shame and from what I see there is more to come. more powers, more feats, more everything. I personally dont think He should have made any of them stronger than Obito or Pain. This way people would easily relate to it like it was real or could happen. But in all, nice Manga.

Why spend so much Learning Animations?

Okay guys welcome to another edition of Hypefoactive. So, today i kinda like feel gingered to just write. Yeah, i havent been doing much of that i must confess lately and will remain so sadly because i blog and animate. It gets worse sometimes when i get involved in construction work say my presence or input on a matter is needed.

If you've been following my write-ups about animations, you'll find out that there is nothing on my pages that describe how to do anything. Yep, this is because as much as i'ld love to do something like that, it's going to be extremely difficult to learn that way especially if i have newbies reading this plus "Old Habits Die Hard". In that if you pick up a wrong niche, it will be difficult to let go order to correct yourself.
                                
                                                                          

Again, there are various books and Cds that teach that, for instance and whether you like it or not, i learnt animations reading the Autodesk help files that ships with the software. It was difficult. very difficult but when you give it time and go with the flow, everything just flows with you. And recently i observed that, as you go deep into animation, it bonds with you. You just seem to know what is right, what feels right and what doesn't. And talking about "Old Habits Die Hard", there is a way to go about this. Just like there is a work flow for making animated films so also is a work-flow for creating animations. After the models, textures or just simply applying materials as i often do, then you've gat rigging, skinning and finally animating. Once you get in doing animations, it's a different world altogether. You have to think and be able to think fast. The faster and good you are at thinking about it, the faster and more efficient you'll be animating. Now if you are talking about just moving random boxes everywhere around your screen and rotating and scaling for no reason, hey that's ok. But if you really want to animate... If you want to show weight, acceleration and deceleration, fluidity and all them other stuffs that makes animations cool and believable, then you have to know the principles and know yourself. Dont worry about applying all of them at first, because the truth is we all have different abilities and have what we are good at. The thing is, knowing that these principles exists and it has to be here or know that it's missing could save that animation you are cooking. So yeah, the animation principles should be in your heart somehow and know exactly what each means. You cant be King of all the principles and may not always apply all of them, but you should and even more. I guess you'll have to start somewhere.

Now, i used to visit a lot of forums and i read things like "Animation Mentor is expensive or Vancouver is expensive, i'll rather go with YouTube". Okay, so they are and you make a whole lot of sense. Now while i'll agree with you about the amount of money paid to these schools as been expensive, it's important to note that the work by almost if not all of their students speaks volume. These guys are like gods. They create, mesmerize their audience and breathe life into their characters in such away that it's just unbelievably sick to think a human can actually do that digitally. And yeah, you could achieve that on your own but it will take time and strong dedication. Now, for some other people especially the group that's always relying on YouTube, that i've seen, and by seeing, i mean there work, and claiming to have over five years of animating experience and still don't know how to create walk cycles, then i suggest you give up on YouTube. Because, You cant learn animations form YouTube as a newbie. Animations are complicated enough so why get into more trouble re-inventing what it took some wise old men over thirty years to invent. These were men paid by Disney and Warner brothers having very vast experience. Well, lets forget about them for now, i guess what i'm trying to say is, if you are hoping to learn animation from YouTube then you are wasting your time and you'll probably never know how to animate and obviously for a number of reasons. The secrets of animations are not always detailed when they teach and even when you learn a run or walk cycle, that's probably what you'll only be able to do until you are fed with something else. So, going to YouTube at first as a "newbie" is bad habit. it's like asking or begging for fish when you should be learning about how to fish.

I had some people back in the day always talking about YouTube, like hey i'll rather spend five hundred dollars on the internet downloading and watching YouTube videos than pay thousands of dollars to any school... And the result... They are still modelling bags and boxes. Till date. Why? You don't know, what you don't know. YouTube is good for learning the software "as a support or last result". When you learn a software from training manuals, then you begin to know the ins and outs of the software and there are a lot of options that becomes open to you waiting for you to choose.

So, thanks for taking the time out to read yet another topic that is especially set to prepare your mind towards learning to animate. And the image i posted isn't mine, i got it from google.
            

I now know the Principles, so what next? The Newbie asks.

Hello HypefroActive fans and welcome to This fantastic edition of  Animation talk on HypefroActive. It would seem a great deal of trouble making up your mind to learn Animations and seeing that dream through, especially when you are learning on your own. And trust me, i know, especially if you are a complete newbie. It is worse for those that are touching the computer for the first time. Now that is reeeeaaaaalllll trouble if you ask me. Quite an interesting topic and would love to talk about it right now but the topic or focus for today is "I now know the Principles, so what next?"

Well, after learning about an animation software and understanding how to model and rig a character down to skinning and now you are in the animation stage, ready to make your scene come alive. And you thinking "oh, i now know the principles by heart. Now i'm an animator at last". Eeeerrr no,the battle to animate is just about to start. You see, knowing the principles don't mean everything about animation is going to come easy. As a matter of fact, even after gathering all these, it still won't come cheap for you. You have to do a lot of simulations, run tests and make stupid and weird poses and faces. And after all these, the fact will surface, staring at you in the face and saying "You can only animate as far and as much as you understand".

While Learning and still learning i found and agreed with the fact that animators are actors. We tend to portray or simulate whatever it is we see and couple it into a film. So, in reality you are only as good at animating in relation to what you know. This means, no matter how good you get or how experienced you get, You'll always be limited to what you understand and know in real life. For example, if you do not have any fighting experience and you try or attempt animating a fight scene, the chances of you pulling off the simulation in such a way as to make people believe and applaud the animation is at most less than fifty one percent. Sixty if you are very very good. So you probably saying, what is he talking about, what about similar scenes i see in animation films? Yep, it's either they have a knowledge about a fighting art, or they used mocap, or maybe they have enough time and money to employ the services of a Choreographer. It's like a writer, the more interesting the novel or script is, the more research he had o gather or already has under his belt to cook the book. There is no magic to this, animation is hard work. It's worse because everybody else into different occupations see this things and understands how the human body moves and relates to every other body or object around him. So animating something that looks different from what you are trying to translate will only make them raise eyebrows and in no time they loose interest in watching the animation. And I've seen it happen a lot in animated films even on cable channels. This has got nothing with knowing how to draw poses or not. I f you don't know these things and how they work, then you don't know. And like The Great "Richard Williams" said, You don't know what you don't know.

My advice to you a newbie is that, the first step to doing great animations is to continually practice simple basics. Don't be in a rush to animate big and complex scenes. Mastering or getting real good at the basics opens doors for understanding other basics. Practice alot and test everything to see how things work in real life. Then as you do all these, dont forget to read animation books and watch videos as much as possible. And yeah, Jeff Lews CDs would also help alot. But if you have the money, just look for a very good animation school and learn from them. That guaranteed will save you at least a year or two learning on your own.

Yeah and the image on top has it's animation right here just in case you are wondering  http://youtu.be/Z-vY3sZ5hlM 

Please watch and subscribe to the channel. There are also other interesting animations on the channel too.

Martial Arts on the surface you probably never knew.

There are a lot of combat styles varying from subs in karate, kung fu, Judo and stretching all the way to boxing and wrestling. And people are always trying to say one is better than the other. But after seeing a couple of art forms and meeting some of the practitioners i've come to a conclusion that none is better than the other. It all depends on the individual and how serious they are with there forms. How much they communicate with and know there forms. Now a lot of people back in the day would be talking about the UFC and using it as a basis. There was a time when the "Gracies" dominated and there art forms where regarded as the best. soon after we heard about wrestlers, krav maga and maybe karate. Well, in all these instances it's a good thing that different art forms did dominate at different times and we are witnesses to it all. And though, i dont think any one art is better than the other, i do think that there is an art for everyone. And i also think an art that doesn't talk about defense lacks something and is not worth learning. There are a lot of quacks out there parading belts and all. There are also a lot of people out there too that cant even lift there leg fully stretched out, a little above the knee. Now, you'd say the focus of there training is there hands. fair enough, but i've also seen some people training hands and forms related to it and cant raise there hands up fully stretched for like five minutes. Yet, they own clubs and talk tough carrying black belts every where they go. Now one day will come when they'll be invited to spar with someone from another club and they perform very badly and the story is that "The art itself has failed, it's no good". Whereas the person representing the art at the time is probably half baked and has failed. Yes, someone learning the same art that is said to have failed could perform better, so though it's supposed to transform your physical, spiritual and intellectual being don't mean it's automatic. And like every other activity or occupation on earth, you have to constantly work to improve and sharpen your skills. And maybe one day carve a style or niche within the style you are into.

It is important to note that there are martial art forms that are for sports and trained specifically for that purpose and there are others that are purely for survival and engagement on the streets. The latter's application is tailored to real life reactions and response. For every situation, there is an answer that would or could play out differently even if the circumstance where to be played out over again. So that's what you get from learning this kind of art. it's tough and there is no room to play around cuz a wrong move could just meet with a terrible end. In trainings, pads to cushion the effects of hits are seldom used all in the name of toughening the body and getting used to real life scenarios. And the focus is not to score points, the focus is to destroy your opponent but with a measure of restrain to be applied at your discretion. After seeing some UFC fighters do what they do in the octagon, it would be foolish to say that this guys are not trained or are not tough. Because unlike your normal or average street fights, there is a referee and there are rules but the fights by no means are nothing less than what you see on the streets. And if for anything, i'ld call them gladiators. Men and Women fighting for a little more than pride or earning a living. Yes and people often joke that they fight like drunks and roll on the floor  because of there grappling styles. But i have this to say, if anybody can stop you from doing damage or bend you some how to submit to there will, then that art is good enough for me, provided you are a good martial artist yourself.

What I'm working On next, Part 2.

A couple of weeks ago, i posted the first episode to this post and at that time it was in the rigging/skinning stage. And yeah, i've been working on it since then and at the moment i am close to rendering.

Now, it was challenging because while trying to entertain and keep it amusing it wasn't really clear how i should approach it. First and foremost, i didn't want to limit it to dancing or dialogue and i wanted to keep things as simple as possible, talking about the scene. Anyways, to start with i had a song in mind, thanks to my friends and the Church, so automatically, there would be dancing or at least a bit of it. Well, playing and talking about it just pointed me in the direction to go about it.

Yeah, so i'm close to rounding it up. So far so good it's been nice working on it and i hope it will be ready for view by next week. Ok, so please keep checking this blog for updates on this work. If you want to be entertained that is.

Relationship Advice

Hello guys and welcome back from the Easter break. I trust you had a swell time, well as for me, i spent it working and going through feeds at my leisure. I enjoyed it though cuz in those three of four days, i achieved quite a lot but missed out something i cherish very much. Family. Yeah, you know what they say, you gain some and you loose some. I'm sorry guys and i pledge to be present in subsequent gatherings to come.

Ok, so while doing what i do, i found some time to go through social feeds. And as usual, found a lot of interesting things on there. There were pictures, videos, very good posts, updates, jokes and everything else that would put a smile on your face. Yeah, not until i came across one post about a female crying about how cruel her hubby is. Cheating and not catering for needs... all that stuff. Ok, so we hear that all of the time.

Here's the thing though and this the truth. If at a time you were picking apples together or playing in the fields or always taking a walk or simply like been together all the time  don't mean it must continue forever. Yeah, it could and there are way higher probabilities that it wont. You dont get it? well it's like this, growing up you had some very close friends and did stuffs together, but right now, life's taken everyone to different places and now you dont see as much as you do or simply are pursuing different interests. Now, you'll say "naaahhh that's different" and i agree with you. Why? because we talking about relationships here. Ok so we are. But the thing is, thesame thing you seek and attaches you to your one time best friend as a kid is the same thing tha will attach you to your future hobby or whatever you'll like to call it and so "i do not agree with you".

Yeah, so people make one common mistake all the time and they end up getting heart broken and for some others it's just a scam, taking and forcing the relationship on someone for whatever reasons. But lets assume that you love bob so much that you cant do without bob, as you think. You've got money and good source of income, pretty and just perfect. The perfect to die for kind of Chic and every guy or there about will do whatever it is to get you as a girl friend. But NO, because you like bob. But problem is bob doesnt like you in the same capacity as you do him. bob is not thinking in that direction and certainly dont want to have anything to do with you. My advice... Let it go. That's of course after you've tried every possible trick that wont put you in trouble that is. It's painful, i know the rejection but a thing that we as humans have to understand is that, what doesn't naturally and freely come to you will find it's path out of your life in time. And why force someone to be with you or love you when the person will always feel unhappy, pained and unsatisfied. If you are happy and he or she isn't, trust me it's only a matter of time before the relationship shatters.

So, been in a relationship is like making a pledge or a vow. It's more serious when it's marriage but then a lot of people do a lot of things for different reasons. But let's say you guys at a time were truly in love with each other and now, he's changed bla bla bla. I suggest you trouble shoot the problem starting from yourself down to what he's meaning at the moment. If you get annoyed and leave, that's fine but how are you sure the next guy wont be the same or even worse? There are so many permutations to these, however it's important to note that nothing in life is a guarantee. Just because you love someone dont mean they have to love you back. If  it's fifty fifty, hey i'm happy for you and if they dont love you in return, please dont go about shooting people at random or taking it out on the next person to come. There is Love enough for everybody, you just have to see, feel and appreciate it for what it is, if it at least conforms to about seventy percent of what you are looking for in a relationship. And if you are patient enough, who knows... you could meet mister perfect.

What does it mean to be the best

Being the Best means mastering the fundamentals, been able to re-create circumstance at will and calling shots on or off. You are the boss, The man with the iron claw able to make or break. But a good quality will  be if you are rational and objective, think and do outside the box, be un-paralled, in your works, make other people in contention look like THEY DONT KNOW WHAT THEY‘RE DOING.
 
Being the Best means been the BEST. There is no contest. You accept encourage and quash competition. You  perform near god-like feats. At whatever age you are, to many you already are considered a legend and Your works or deeds speak for you and live a very long time even after you are gone. Being the best means you are first, second and third. And the others are just too far away such that positions don't matter anymore. Been the Best means "You are Invincible".

Why you need to know Revit Architecture.

So asides Character Animation, We also Handle conceptual building designs And and a lot of other stuffs. Yep, We are a hand-full. Ok, say We were at the studio trying to get some animations done and this guy pops in asking for a conceptualized version of a model he has in mind to build. So, i offered to chew in on it. I left my animations and ordered revit to open. So it obeys, and the result...

Alright, the real reason i agreed to be part of this is because i actually have a construction background and i know how to use Autodesk Revit Architecture. Yeah, with this baby you can chew large chunks in no time. If i were to do this in Autocad with thesame time constraint, Only God knows how long it will take. But You cant take it away from Autocad though. if its purely detailed 2D, its Autocad hands down. Say you drawing like Gears and Meshes or the side of a car with all the fillets of different radii interacting with eachother, then its autocad for me. come to think of it, i think i can do that with revit as well. Yes, i can.
No, no, no, I cant. So go ahead and learn Autocad afterwards pick up Revit. Both of them applies to construction and probably all facets of engineering. And as you do this, you'll be more confident of yourself in your profession.

As usual, You can Email me at chimatic@gmail.com for Enquiries.

What I'm working on next.

Hello People.

So I've been away for a while, well not quite. See, i've been busy trying to finish what i started. Ever since i put up a post about animations, people have been following and asking questions. And they also say it's difficult to post on my blog. still, trying to fix that so I'll see what i can do about that. Please be patient as you've always been. And thank you for your understanding.

Now, the real reason why i've not been on here is because this blog is kind of an animation blog in way or "you could say". but it's not limited to animations either. However, one of our objectives is to entertain people and we do that for now mostly with animations. It may come in the form of satire, parody, pure and straight comic or even action. So, we try as much as we can to push something out at least every month. This way, we try to create awareness and promote the art in  Nigeria and Africa in general.

So, this is something I'm working on and eerrr, it's really quite a handful. Well as you can see, We try as much as we can to keep things simple, stupid and raw but sometimes, you've gat to look the other way.

This image is uploaded for younger animators, so that they see what facial rigging is about. Though not much going on here at the moment, talking about the image. But at least You get to understand and appreciate the fact that whatever animations you find here are truly done here. Yeah, so this is what's been keeping me busy.

And of course,  one of the most hated chores in all of animation, "skinning". You've gat to love skinning cuz if you don't, then you should probably be inventing a way to stick bones up to meshes using glue or something invented and preferred by you. Yeah, I once hated skinning myself and could spend say two or more days on a character and still wont get it right. But if you focus on Skinning and forget about everything else for about a week or two, You'll probably be skinning characters in say three or four hours. The major challenges will be waiting for you at the shoulders. The fingers are just repetitions and the vertices at the spine also should gradually run smooth between two or three bones and blend evenly amongst them.

But skinning and the ease of it will depend on your rigging. if your bones are fairly spaced, then skinning for you will be less cumbersome. Ok, so that's it. See ya'll pretty soon.

TRUE LOVE- still on the matter.

Sometimes I wonder if I'm truly Black or Nigerian, Because I don't get it. People talk about LOVE like its something meant to be controlled. Like its something with an "off & on" switch. Well, it doesn't work like that. True Love is emotional, sentimental, abstract, Unconditional and uncontrollable. Its a feeling, its like you are on drugs or you are high. For you to love is for you to slave away or "give yourself out freely if you will". It doesn't wear out in an instant and sufferings are often attached to it. You walk into the room and  meet your guy with a girl and decide instantly to do away with him & Alas succeed with your coup d'etat. Then, you never truely loved him in the first place. Let's face it, if he had loads of money and you there was competition, also there is Brazillian hair, Lumia or Black Berry and jewelries attending to you, it would'nt matter. at least to most people.

Some people will smile, others will frown and some others will reflect on this but truth is, True Love Hurts and if there's nothing to loose, then YOU NOT IN LOVE. And if You don't believe me still....

Ask JESUS.

TAKE ME AS I AM.

I often wonder when people say “TAKE ME AS I AM“. what does it really mean, could it be that those words are been abused cuz i‘m confused. Take me as I am.
Lets not mince words or cook euphemisms. If you are obesse, thin, physically challenged or anything that's not within your control; All these, i understand.
But if you are supposedly a graduate or elderly person, an oga @ d top and you don't know basic stuffs that you should know, then you‘ve gat a problem. Stop lying to yourselves and blaming others for it. However, if you are obese and you cant keep away from meat, kilishi, sushi, asun or roundabout, shakki, edoo, fuku, ora etc... then mon ami, You‘ve gat problems of your own.
Always make it a duty to help yourself whenever you can. No one‘s going to do that for you like you can.

Why Me

When Life Drags You in the Mud, Its because there is a step You have to repeat. Repeating is really not cool but hey it's not a Big deal either, because the way i see it, there is something to be learnt and probably master. There is something You are probably missing out on that you should really pay attention to, or maybe your purpose hovers around that landmark in time you find yourself in.

Well, @ this Junction You could sit on the Floor and start crying like a Baby and remain there cursing and blaming everyone else but yourself for your condition ooooooorrr do what Every Successful Person does which is; Take a GOOD LOOK at the FLOOR, DUST Yourself CLEAN, STAND UP, MARK THAT SPOT, RE-STRATEGISE, Then TRY ANOTHER APPROACH. Do this and You are on Your way to Greatness. Keep Crying or Run away and The same Problem will be waiting somewhere else. Why? Because it needs to be solved. That is Our Purpose on Earth.
We Till, plant, Eat, till, plant and eat. a Vicious circle. Have a Great day.