Football!
Here’s a simple rig I did in the summer. I figured I may pass it on to AM students…just thought about it since class 1 is starting the ball assignments. The roll is animated by an equation so whoever is animating it would just treat the roll value like any other rotation.
Falling down stair reference
Hilarious. Melissa McCarthy Falling Down Staris as ‘Lulu Diamonds’ on “SNL” Why don’t you come upstairs and see me up there sometime?
Stepper Reference
I recorded a lot of reference. The first 150 frames are what I’m thinking for the animation. It will be two different loops separated with a short transition. Ballie will be on a workout stairstepper…he has no arms, so I’m focusing on the body mechanics of the legs. Here are my planning sketches for the [...]
Up the down escalator
Okay. So I’ve been bouncing around a few different ideas for my body mechanics shot. Stair stepper or escalator were some ideas. When I saw this video…oh man…I really wanted to do a step animation! hmmmm..
Chaplin Reference
Peer gave me this for reference. Lots of good walks…and drunk ones
Drunk Walk
This week I blocked a few different stumbles and walks. I’ll be developing this drunk one… Below, I have a few versions of the block ( it’s in blocking plus ) and the reference. Getting faster at blocking for sure, did at least 6 blocks this week to practice
Five Frames Blocking
Here’s a great article Florian Fitz posted. It really helps out with blocking: Five Frames Article
Walk Tutorials and Tid Bits
Rolando Chan-Law showed me a really helped article for the walk: http://www.11secondclub.com/helpful_hints/put_it_there and Ronan Relosa made some great tutorials as well: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/6313158/Tutorials/distanceTool.mov http://dl.dropbox.com/u/6313158/Tutorials/toeBreak.mov Fantastic resources! Check them out
Silly Monty Python…
When we walk, our feet overshoot where they are going to land. Kinda like this. Kinda. maybe
Spline Tutorials
I got some great links from Frank Guthrie. They’re tutorials by Victor Navone: Tutorial #1: http://www.navone.org/HTML/Tutorial_Splines1.htm Tutorial #2: http://www.navone.org/HTML/Tutorial_Splines2.htm He also gave me a link to the Animation Insider eBook (know-how, experience and anecdotes from 13 talented animators. Navone is one of them, and I also saw another friendly-face, Jason Schleifer http://squeezestudio.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Animation%20Insiders%20-%20EBOOK.pdf All great resources, [...]