Download football rig

Posted by aleeCO on October 24, 2011 in Downloads

I submitted the football rig I made to Creative Crash.

You can download it at: http://www.creativecrash.com//downloads/35586

Predator Roar WIPs

Posted by aleeCO on October 24, 2011 in Animations

This isn’t for AM. I wanted to try animating my own rig and have a test or two to show by CTN. now that I have a better understanding of animation, I know how to make the rig better for animation.

Here’s the first pass, needs clean-up:

and the reference:

Parkour Planning

Posted by aleeCO on October 22, 2011 in Animations, Sketches

My next shot is going to include both ballie and stewie. They approach a wall with only a rope to climb. They have no arms, but will conquer the wall!

sketches:

300

plan/block v1: very rough. Mainly focused on timing and idea.

Reference video:

Stepper submitted

Posted by aleeCO on October 22, 2011 in Animations

Moving so fast!

Posted by aleeCO on October 21, 2011 in Animations

Okay, this made me laugh. I was messing with the motion blur when I was rendering out my shot. Ballie and the frame count are … well, just too fast for my settings!

blur

Stepper – polish week WIP

Posted by aleeCO on October 19, 2011 in Animations

Made changes based on Travis’ critique! I gave him a little bit of a hop instead. Had to change some poses, so there’s so popping going on that I’ll be cleaning up. Just posting progress for now

Previous version (critiqued by Travis):

Football!

Posted by aleeCO on October 13, 2011 in Animations, References

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.

Blocking Plus/ Splining Week

Posted by aleeCO on October 13, 2011 in Animations

Here’s my progress so far. Still cleaning up splines, but I changed the idea a bit (like stopping the machine at the end). Getting there! splines are tough

Version 5:

Version 3:

Here’s a version just of the head (v3):

Here’s the blocking plus from eariler thing week:

Splining Notes

Posted by aleeCO on October 11, 2011 in Tid Bits

Start with the root (hip). Hide the legs. Use the edges of the control curves to help see where the arc of the rotation is on a part of the body.
Block to spline in chunks — such as from one contact pose to another. To fix timing, you can go to linear from stepped, so you don’t get the distracted by the overshoot of the splines. Non-animators reading this post have no idea what I just said that’s okay, I’m just jotting notes