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
starting vanilla walk
I need to make it more boring. new version will be more plain First pass of the walk: This is what I started earlier (before the tweaks in the loop above — I’ll just focus on the loop above before I finish this):
Strength Poses
This week’s pose is strength! I drew some new ones today (poses 1-6), but the others are from another sketch entry (I pulled what I think would be interesting to bring into 3D). I thought about strength in both individual and team-based terms.
Animating Tailor
Turn the tail off when you start! Animate just the ball first. Follow through and the overlapping action (the tail) supplements the first (the ball).
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, [...]