cartoon animation to reyalistic animation

#1

hi all.i been working as a cartoon character animator in maya from past few years.now i am working for my new project.it is completely realistic animation… iam getting somuch trubl to finelising my shots.please give me suggestions,how to develop the realistic animation.( live action timing and movement, finelising the animation shot)…i am influenced from my past experiance(corrtoon animation).so how can i change my style in to realistic animation.what is the main aspect to check in my animation shots.any sugestion would be great help to my career.thank u all.

#2

can you post something? hard to see based on what your saying

#3

Record yourself with Videocam and copy the timing what else you can do =)find better reference

#4

hi, thank u for u r reply.i just wanted to tell u more briefly about my question.the problem iam getting in my project iam doing animation and supervising.i got to be more clear about the realistic animation but iam getting trouble in finalizing the animation.iam not understanding where iam missing.my Clint feed back is ok not bad. but iam not happy with just ok i wanted to learn more perfect.please give me any suggestion, it would be great.
thank u all.

#5

Would you be able to upload your animation to www.vimeo.com or such? It would be a lot easier to give you suggestions if we had something of yours to look at.

#6

I’m not sure this will help, but trying to understand the differences between realistic motion and toony motion might help.

For example, toony motion tends to exaggerated movement and poses, while realistic motion tends toward less exaggerated movement and less pose to pose visibility.

So as you animate for realism, make sure you aren’t exaggerating too much. Tone done any wild actions or extreme poses. Check your graphs (if you are doing 3d animation) and make sure that differences in amplitude on your curves isn’t too great - unless really called for).

In the same way any overlapping motion should be subtle and not overly overlapping. Same for anticipation, we don’t anticipate things as wildly as in toons. The same goes pretty much for all the animation principles… tone them down for realism.

Another difference lies in the fact that most toony movement will 'hold' a pose and then move quickly to the next pose (and often it's very quickly). Realistic motion is sometimes better animated straight ahead instead of pose to pose. So when you animate realistic motion try to lose the pose to pose look. A toony animation will feel snappy, realistic motion does not and that has to do with the timing and pose to pose feel.

Overall realistic motion has more details, is more subtle, less pose oriented, and obviously the timing is closer to real time. Hope that helps a bit!
#7

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