Ideas for Monthly Animation sessions

#17

I have already mentioned that the challenges will be back once the animation hosting happens for cgportfolio. The topics are already picked for the first couple of em.

First of all they will be mostly about real life scenarios you will encounter as an animator. Those will include dialogue and physical animation too.

The masterpiece studies idea is just not gonna work. if you want to learn good animation study acting not trace someone elses work. I am all for studying the choices that other animator made but tracing it is not going to teach you anything.

I’d like to learn what it takes to be an animation supervisor myself.

years of experience , ability to see the mistakes of others and offer solutions , be nice and helpful , be a team leader.

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If you guys want to start some unofficial mini challenges by all means do so. But the official anim sessions will not be restarted till cgportfolio anim hosting happens.

_A

#18

there is one way this kinda thing could work but it wouldn’t be tracing, you could take scene animate it how you enterpret it and then you’ll begin to understand why the animator of the original made the choices he did. this would be more of a study than tracing.

as for the unoffical mini challenge thing, that’d be cool to have between now and when the proper one starts.

#19

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#20

a once a week really short animation clip could be cool. cant’ wait for the challenges to start up again, if only to see more animation posts on cgtalk.

#21

tell that to the people not participating :slight_smile:

#22

I have already mentioned that the challenges will be back once the animation hosting happens for cgportfolio

SheepFactory, since animation hosting in the cgprotfolio suppose to be avilable only to cgsociety members,does that mean that the animation chalenges will be only with the use of cgprotfolio’s? :curious:

#23

No you are more than welcome to host your animation yourself. But I dont think you will find a cheaper anim hosting solution than cgportfolio anywhere on the net.

#24

I’ve been waiting for something like this (on CGTalk) for awhile…I think the monthly idea is great, and I like the idea of the themed contest…but realistically, if you’re looking for honed animation, I doubt the animations would/could be very long due to people’s schedules and such. Maybe we could switch it up, and do fixed length clips one time, and a theme another time. However it goes, I’ll get in on it. I look forward to it guys.

#25

so is it going ahead or what? i need something to get my ass up and to do more animations, a littel incentive.

#26

i was gonna get one going in here but they seem to be doing it here now. could still set one i suppose but it might not get as much support as it would have. but when they start hosting anims here then it’ll kick off properly

#27

I would also like to get in on this. I will keep an eye on these forums for when it starts up.

#28

Seeing as Cgtalk is taking its time to start this up i say we get cracking and do our own going on the suggestions posted above…

#29

Seconded. Here’s the ideas so far:

‘awe’ as in to be in awe of something jaw on thr floor type stuff
‘adventure begins’ like the cool bit in treasure planet when jims solar surfing
‘reasurance’ as in it’ll be ok…
‘flat tyre’ make up a situation involving a flat tyre
‘parting company’
‘sorry’
‘pistols at dawn’
‘waiting’ or ‘impatient’
‘traffic’ (you can see what my daily commutes are like these days)
‘fill’er up’
‘desperation’
‘anxiety’
‘hopeful’
‘bad dream’
‘refreshing’
‘I can’t hold it!’
‘Look at that!’

Sorry if I missed some.

I vote for ‘parting company’. Maybe this should be an official poll?

#30

hey guys…

that all sounds nice… so why dont we just vote for it…?
i personaly like this ideas…

‘I can’t hold it!’
‘Look at that!’

#31

This will be great! I’m definitley in. Character driven topics are your best bet, whether they’re soundclips, masterpiece studies, action/reaction.
Here’s another idea that 10 second club doesn’t do. Maybe have some of the clips be “directed” in a way. Have the topic and then give basic character directions, ie: the character needs to jump up from a sitting position to put emphasis on this word. Of course this can be interpreted by the animator. But, by forcing certain movements it might force the animator to be more creative as to how and why the character needs to get into that position. That might make it more “real world”. It might not work but, it is different.

#32

So,when is this going to start?I think this is a great idea.

#33

Wow…

here are some ideas …

::“my biggest fear”
::“Favorite band”
::“first date”
::“commercial for a MADE UP product or service”
::“sunday afternoon”
::“streets of new York [any town]”
::“bad dream”

#34

I’m liking these ideas, especially ‘the bad dream’ scenario. I’ll participate!

#35

Yeah, I’d definitely be interested in doing an animation session if it was posted here… I was wondering what had happened to the official ones. I was wondering, though- would we still be able to do official challenges even without the CGPortfolio hosting? Or is the hosting supposed to be up soon?

Either way, I would still be interested if we had like a “temporary challenge” here to hold us over in the meantime… it could just be something simple like “here’s a WAV I found; animate to that” or something a little more interesting like the emotion-based challenges you guys had mentioned… Anyway, keep us updated!

#36

I am not working against CGTalk. I am not looking to steal members away from it as I am one myself (mostly modelling as a hobby.)

Over at Happysack.org we have begun a Micro Animation Challenge with small 2-4 second challenges for those who dont have a month to dedicate to a 10 second piece of detailed character animation. You are more than welcome to come check it out.