Animation: new WIP

[raducoc]

Please email-me this animation to:
raducoc@yahoo.com and i post it.

[bobzilla]

San: looking forward to seein your animation. Has anyone hosted it yet for you???

[sanciok]

Here it is!!

http://www.flingster.com/cgtalk/sanciok/prova.avi


Yesss... the KINDEST Flingster hosted my animation again! Thanks bud! U rock!!! :beer: :beer:

Any C&C is welcome!
Hope u like my WIP!!
:wavey:

[JIII]

does anyone know of a player that will show AVI for mac?

[bobzilla]

JII: I know! It's a pain. I'm on OSX at home with Quicktime 6.3 (I think) and that usually works. At work (during the day) I'm only at QT4, so no luck...

[sebek27]

great job ! i love the camera work especially when the balloon flies off... what did you use for rigging ? and a bit of info how you rigged your character

[danb]

nice work on this animation. it has some very natural movement to the character. keep 'em comin'

[squidinc]

very nice motion, I demand a rig tutorial :D

[smoke]

first let me say: very well done, nice natural movements and I like the addition of the camera moves.

now with that said...

HOW THE HECK DID YOU DO THAT RIG?????

[geoffr]

looking good.
I second smoke's statement!
Does anyone want to third it?

[ThirdEye]

You're becoming really good at rigging and animating, very very nice job! Let's this will convince people our IK system's not that bad, you just have to know how to use it.

[sanciok]

Eheh! For rigging i used Hard ik for legs and soft ik foe arms and a thousands of driven keys!!:beer: :beer:

[smoke]

Originally posted by sanciok
Eheh! For rigging i used Hard ik for legs and soft ik foe arms and a thousands of driven keys!!:beer: :beer:


Probably a stupid question, but... What are "driven keys"?
Could you post a screen of the rig itself?

[flingster]

Originally posted by sanciok
Here it is!!

http://www.flingster.com/cgtalk/sanciok/prova.avi


Yesss... the KINDEST Flingster hosted my animation again! Thanks bud! U rock!!! :beer: :beer:

Any C&C is welcome!
Hope u like my WIP!!
:wavey:

heh heh...you got your own folder now...how could i refuse...after all it would be a shame not to use it..now its there..
top job as usual...
:thumbsup:
(tut would also be nice if ya get some time...)

[mimo8]

great anim!

expression, anticipation and camera do a very good job - keep it up - sorry but no crits

[bobzilla]

San: Yes, I was the first on the list looking for it and I have yet to view it!!!! I can't see AVIs at work. I'll check it out over the weekend.

I noticed the sway towards Set Driven keys as opposed to PoseMixers with rigs. CosmicBear posted some neat stuff, too. Do you find them easier to work with than morphs? Have you found morphs slow you down?

You should take a look at Bonderland over at I-dea graphics. THAT looks pretty cool!

http://c4dplugins.idea-graphics.de/start.html

[mimo8]

just looked at bonderland but the puplic beta expired - or did I download a older file

BL_4 ?!?

[AdamT]

Pretty sweet Sanciok! My only criticism is that his legs and hips are too still at the beginning, just after he stands up out of the crouch. I think keyframing just a little hip rotation in that spot would help a lot.

[sanciok]

Originally posted by bobzilla
San: Yes, I was the first on the list looking for it and I have yet to view it!!!! I can't see AVIs at work. I'll check it out over the weekend.

I noticed the sway towards Set Driven keys as opposed to PoseMixers with rigs. CosmicBear posted some neat stuff, too. Do you find them easier to work with than morphs? Have you found morphs slow you down?

You should take a look at Bonderland over at I-dea graphics. THAT looks pretty cool!

http://c4dplugins.idea-graphics.de/start.html

Wait Bob! :beer: i DID use posemixers for facial expression and hands, but i'm controlling them with driven keys. U may ask why... In this way i have all the control in the viewport. It's also a matter of organizing the timeline!

I downloaded the Bonderland plugin and it seems to be very nice as if i found the rig avaliabile on the site a lot less stable and a lot more confusig than mine :)
Btw i still didn't understand its rigging process properly...
maybe i'll be using it! :)

AdamT: thanks for your suggestion! i'll add that movement!

[sanciok]

Originally posted by smoke
Probably a stupid question, but... What are "driven keys"?
Could you post a screen of the rig itself?

Right... Driven keys is just a way to define a "relationship" between objects. For example u can have a null object driving the scale of a sphere when moving on the Y axis.

Using this tecnique (combined with expressions, Hard IK and Soft IK) i have full control of my character just using null objects!!

P.S.... for the legs i basically udes the NAAM's expression (with 3 Driven keys for controlling the movements and a constraint rotation to avoid leg flipping)

Sanciok
:wavey:

[wesware]

Really nice animation and rigging!
You're doing some really good work here for sure.

Only crits other than whats been said:
1.On the right foot step forward before the balloon appears, there seems to be no weight shift to the left foot. Just a little and some hip rotation might be a good thing.

2. He snaps into a pose right before he lets go of the balloon... it seems a little harsh. I think that could work as one fluid motion (with a little delay) as he goes into letting go and raising his arm.

Really nice!

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