22.10.11
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Mi Showreel 2011.
My Showreel 2011.
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Saturday, 22 October 2011
Friday, 14 October 2011
Facial Animation 003
Consonants' lip-sync, Groggy's facial rig is really very difficult to manage, good practice overall though, even when the result is not brilliant.
The character is Groggy Rig 1.0.0 (by Zubuyer Kaolin).
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Tuesday, 11 October 2011
Facial Animation 002
Vowel's lip-sync, it's not bad, but Groggy's facial rig is very difficult to manage, anyway next will be the consonants.
The character is Groggy Rig 1.0.0 (by Zubuyer Kaolin).
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Sunday, 9 October 2011
Facial Animation 001
Some exercises on blinks and how to use them to give more life to a character, and reinforce the movement.
Basic blink:
I found a very good article about blinks by Carlos Baena from where I got this particular tip that I really liked. I changed it a little, but I like the idea of the eyes blinking at different times.
"As
for ideas on how to animate a blink, this is something that I've
used a lot which I learned from another animator here - I offset
the blinks but the actual closure of the eyes occurs on the same
frame. This allows for the organic offset without...
Thursday, 6 October 2011
Run cycle
The last cycle for the moment, now I will move to a little more of acting...
Not completely happy with Bloke's head on this one. Once rendered it looks odd.
Bloke 2.8.0 ( by Jason Baskin).
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Wednesday, 5 October 2011
Walk cycle/Double bounce
Basic walk cycle, the basis to develop others with more character, like the double-bounce:
Double-bounce, I made this following the Richard Williams' example from TASK, it looks quite funny:
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Tuesday, 4 October 2011
Quick Pose to Pose
A quick pose to pose Animation exercise. Basically they're 4 key poses and 1 breakdown. Some overlap also, not sure what to do with the right arm thought...
Pose 01:
Pose 02:
Pose 03:
Breakdown:
The pre-rigged character is Bloke 2.8.0 ( by Jason Baskin...
Monday, 3 October 2011
Balance/weight Animation
This is an Animation exercise to stay on shape until some job comes. Just a quick balance/weight exercise; I used the George Maestri's tutorial as reference by the way.
The pre-rigged character I'm using is Bloke 2.8.0 ( by Jason Baskin).
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