Animbot Workshop – With Fung Leung (Michael) Things I learned more about through this workshop: Animbot buttons and use. Creature animation. Reminder about how to add a reference video. Quadruped animations – not to use. Curves of the hips and chest in quadrupeds. Positioning of COG (centre of gravity) for weight distribution. Hips always twist… Continue reading Animbot Workshop
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Workshop – Facial Rigging
Technical workshop about facial rigging with Alan. Center of gravity (COG) is needed in a rig. Class Overview Completing body rig. Joint rigging vs blend shape rigging. Onsite vs offsite rigging. Binding the head / jaw. Using ‘off site’ rigging techniques: Blink. Using ‘off site’ rigging techniques: Brow. Using ‘on site’ rigging techniques: Blend shaping.… Continue reading Workshop – Facial Rigging
Technical Workshop – Skinning
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Technical Workshop – Advanced Skeleton Rigging and Blocking Animation
Tutor – Toby. Learning and using the ‘Advanced Skeleton’ plugin to rig a character. 1.1 Punisher Model Rigged using ‘Advanced Skeleton’. 1.2 My Character ‘Luna’ Quadruped Rigged with Advanced Skeleton. Issues with the Rig There was an issue with the eye controls. When using ‘advanced skeleton’, there was no main eye control to move the… Continue reading Technical Workshop – Advanced Skeleton Rigging and Blocking Animation
Technical Workshop – Modelling
Technical Workshop. Tutor – Alan Postings. 1.1 Modelling Basics – Dice model Techniques Taught: Bevel. Helps to hold the model’s shape when smoothing. Extrude tool options. For example, Offset and local translate Z will work on all of the selected faces relative to the selection not the world. Smooth and smooth preview. Smooth preview will… Continue reading Technical Workshop – Modelling
Week 6 – Compositing Workshop
This compositing workshop was an exercise to show a method of compiling sound effects to an animation using Premiere pro. Fortunately, I have already used Premiere much in the past and can do this without this instruction, nevertheless, I rarely use this method, so it is still useful. Workshop method: I aligned appropriate sound effects… Continue reading Week 6 – Compositing Workshop
Staging and Story boarding
Staging and Story Boarding – Lesson Notes Story boarding: the WHAT of everything? This includes: Style Character How may of them, environment, camera angle etc. Style Humanoid vs cartoon character Real World Simulation vs Anime 2D vs 3D Laws of physics Storyboard determines style, but style does not determines the login of your animation. Storyboards… Continue reading Staging and Story boarding