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Animation: Final

Posted by Rikki, 11 December 2005 · 64 views

So here it is: the final animation of this term, and the final update of this 6 week piece

This week has mostly been some touching up of a few areas, although I did add a part at the end to help get across the emotion he's feeling at that point.

Other changes are:

* Added the mouth movements to the beginning part
* Slightly changed the way the box is brought down at the beginning
* Smoothed out the box flying (I hope this is a popular one

)
* When he puts his finger down there's added weight
* When he puts his hand out he now 'throws' it from his arm rather than just moving it out
* When he moves his hand to his head, I cut out a large amount of unnecessary movement
* Added eye darts in several places
* Made the movement after he's on the desk better with some overlapping
* When he goes to jump on the desk I got rid of the hand sliding
* Added the sigh at the end

Comments would of course be appreciated

I've attached a H264 version and uploaded a 3vix version.

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http://www.tizz66.com/am/dnd_speech_10_3vix.mov

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W1lz0r
Dec 11 2005 05:55 PM

Pretty good. The box falling is a lot better now... Stupid question tho... why does the puppet only have 4 fingers?

Grant
Dec 12 2005 12:50 AM

Yea, You did an excellent Job. This is a pretty good clip. I am wondering the same thing (about the fingers).

Matt Marshall
Dec 12 2005 03:52 AM

Wow, very nice. What course are you taking?

Anti-aliasing?

Wilko
Dec 12 2005 04:01 AM

It looks much better now, nice job Rikki.

QUOTE(Matt Marshall @ Dec 12 2005, 08:52 AM)

Wow, very nice. What course are you taking?

Anti-aliasing?

I believe he is doing a course at http://www.animationmentor.com/

Matt
Dec 12 2005 04:37 AM

Most traditionally animated characters only have three fingers and a thumb.

W1lz0r
Dec 12 2005 05:24 AM

QUOTE(Matt @ Dec 12 2005, 10:37 AM)

Most traditionally animated characters only have three fingers and a thumb.

Tradition or not. There must be some reason why this is done? Someone must have thought of a good reason to do this? I noticed it in some comics too (and I watch lots of those, since I have kids

)

Rikki
Dec 12 2005 08:21 AM

It's just one less thing to animate and on small hands a fourth finger would look odd.

There's no anti-aliasing because it's a playblast, not a render. This obviously isn't what would go in a movie, it's just the completed version of the animation

BlakeC
Dec 12 2005 09:15 AM

if you look at old animation, you will find that most characters have only three fingers. they thought adding the fourth finger made the hands look out of proportion -- least that is what i heard **shrug**

Dan
Dec 12 2005 10:18 AM

I find it amusing that the fingers are picked up on, but the almost perfectly ball shaped head, the oversized eyes and the fact he's naked is nothing unusual

The animation itself is great though, well done Rikki! It's definitely much improved over the versions you've posted before.

Rikki
Dec 12 2005 10:24 AM

Way I see it, if the comments are about the number of fingers he has, the animation must be good enough not to generate comments about any obvious problems with it

Starnox
Dec 12 2005 10:49 AM

Yup looks really good. I was watching the HD version of the new Ice Age 2 Trailer out a few days ago. Now thats some insane animation.

Rikki
Dec 12 2005 11:16 AM

Yeah, one of the other mentors on the course works at Blue Sky, I loved the animation in the trailer.

Sebastian Mares
Dec 12 2005 01:31 PM

Great animation Rikki. Just one small thing - I think the box should fly through the room a bit longer since the guy hits it pretty hard. What I mean is that it just "slowly falls" from the counter.

Debbie
Dec 13 2005 02:47 AM

It's great Rikki! Well done

John IV
Dec 13 2005 05:03 AM

That was awesome!

Chris Griego
Dec 15 2005 01:39 AM

I was going to mention what Sebastian Mares almost said. The box flying is better, but now it's too smooth, almost like it floats to the ground instead of falls. A bit too staged, and doesn't follow inertia. For the first split-second it should resist moving at all (an object at rest tends to stay at rest) and then go flying from the force applied, but start to slow over the course of the fall.

Take that for what it's worth, it's a lot better animation than I hope to ever do.

Matt Marshall
Dec 15 2005 03:43 PM

Is your name on the credits for this BBC1 "Walking with monsters" programme?

I'm only watching it for the graphics

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