Walk Tutorials and Tid Bits

Posted by aleeCO on August 20, 2011 in References

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…

Posted by aleeCO on August 19, 2011 in References

When we walk, our feet overshoot where they are going to land. Kinda like this. Kinda. maybe

starting vanilla walk

Posted by aleeCO on August 15, 2011 in Animations

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

Posted by aleeCO on August 15, 2011 in Sketches

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.

Week 7 submissions

Posted by aleeCO on August 14, 2011 in Animations

Tailor:

Pendulum Revision:

Tailor- revision 4

Posted by aleeCO on August 13, 2011 in Animations

Animating Tailor

Posted by aleeCO on August 10, 2011 in Tid Bits

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

Posted by aleeCO on August 8, 2011 in References

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, so be sure to check them out.