Taylor: Need a custom script?

I am in scripting class this semester and am trying to come up with an idea for my final project. If you have needs that can be filled by a script or two, let me know. I'd love to make something that will actually help people out. So far we have done things like create a simple rig builder, and create procedural geometry. I can also do GUI's (graphic menu's). If you have any suggestions or needs, I'd love to hear them.


                                                                                                    --Taylor

Wan Cheul Kim - Pawn animation

Ok this is a very rough pawn animation yet, but the general idea of what's going on is in there.
I'll work more on the timing of fox jumping and walking, and then get into the blocked motion.

Q to the class: I'm thinking of the creature to come out from the inside of the mountain thingy. Any body have any ideas how to add rock bashed open and scatter all over the place?

Dinosaur walking

It is a 2d animation, but I can see when a dinosaur walking how its body moved. Hope it gona help.

Ivania - Pawn animation

Hey guys!
Here's where I'm at with my animation. I want the lioness to be prowling with a small leap at the end. It's still in it's pawn stages, more or less, with some minimal keys thrown on the lioness. Let me know what you guys think!

Nick_The Elephant Hunter

Amelia - Eagle Leg Question

Does this leg in the Maya file look backwards to you? If so, has anyone been able to pose it this other way? Is there some pole vector or controller that I haven't found?

Non-linear layout

Hi everyone,

I wanted to post my layout for my non-linear assignment. In terms of composition, I am pretty set on what I have. However I was hoping that I could use it as reference to gauge my idea.

So the idea is that this car is driving along this jungle road. Suddenly, from the Bushes we can see Tiny the Gorilla. He jumps out of the bushes, screen left, onto the car crushing it. He then lets out a furious roar  and jumps back into the jungle screen right.

Any thoughts on how to plus this, or if you think it works, or whatever would be greatly appreciated!

Nick- Think This Helps

Not sure if this helps but you can go to www.referencereference.com and you will be able to find some animal animation from birds, tigers, elephants, and horses.

Amelia - bird reference/tutorial

google search is my friend tonight...
http://www.brendanbody.co.uk/flight_tutorial/index.html

and more detailed ornithology lecture notes - from dinosaur origins to flight paths...
http://people.eku.edu/ritchisong/554notes1.html
http://people.eku.edu/ritchisong/554notes2.html
http://people.eku.edu/ritchisong/554notes3.html

Amelia - upcoming book

I just preordered - and yes I will share - but in case you want your own...

Action Analysis for Animators By Chris Webster
Here is a link to the google book excerpts:
http://books.google.com/books?id=jylUYRFfcywC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Action+Analysis+for+Animators&hl=en&sa=X&ei=hAlsT86YB8KuiQKT9-mGBQ&ved=0CDYQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=Action%20Analysis%20for%20Animators&f=false

Walking to Mixamo

Just in case anyone rechecks here before they head over to Mixamo, Amelia and I will be walking from 180 New Montgomery over to the studio. We're leaving around 5pm-ish, if anyone wishes to stroll along side us. On the way back we're more than likely taking the K or T train from there[corner of 3rd and 20th] to Market. I believe it's $2 and a 17min ride to Market/Montgomery. Stronger in numbers! :D

Taylor's Tiny scripts

I'm starting to build a script library for Tiny. Is anybody else using that rig? If so I'll post whatever I make, and if you have any requests (control selection sets mostly) I'd be happy to do it. Just gauging interest here.

In fact, even if you're not using Tiny and just want to see what I did, let me know. I basically copied Davids selection scripts from Morpheus but I'd be happy to show anybody who missed that part in class. Don't miss out on setting these up. It's easy and saves you lots of time in the long run.

Lastly, I'm not too familiar with IK/FK matching switches. Would that be easy to apply to any rig?  Thanks in advance for any pointers.


                                                                                         -- Taylor

Nick- 3rd Last Mocap

Gave it a 54th try.

Ziteng Mocap 2

This is my Mocap Final :D

Nick 2nd Mocap

Alright lets get started on the next project. Whattaya say

Amelia - AHAA

something to listen to while you fight to lock elbows to the floor etc. in mocap...
and while the animation podcast is on hiatus

http://www.ahaapodcast.org/
(scroll down on the far right for archive links)

know of other good animation podcasts?

West - Simplify Curves

So just learned a new trick that works pretty well for this MoCap assignment. Select the Root, Spine, Neck and Head, select the curves in the Graph Editor, then go to Curves>Simplify Curve. This will get rid of a ton of keys and make cleaning up this shot much easier.  I would NOT suggest using this on the Hands, Elbows, Feet and Knees cause they just get way too screwed up.

Before you do this, make sure you have Buffer Curve Snapshot in effect, so you can see the original curves and try to match them. If you don't know how to do that, Select all controls> Select Curves in Graph Editor>Curves>Buffer Curve Snapshot>View>Show Buffer Curves.

Hope this helps!

Sean - New Version of Rhett

There's a new version of Rhett on Creative Crash. Here's the link:

http://www.creativecrash.com/maya/downloads/character-rigs/c/rhett-the-clydesdale

Nick - Mocap

Heres the first shot. Didn't know which camera to use so I chose the perspective. According to all of you was the head/neck the most annoying peice to animate.

Ivania - MoCap!

Here's my MoCap assignment for this week. :) I was also having trouble finding the "shotcam", so I hope this angle will do. Fire away!

Tim Li-MoCap shot Cam

Where is the shot camera view for the mocap?

Nick - Screwy "Baked" Mocap File

I'm having trouble with the Mocap file in the "Pick Up" folder. When you open it up in 2012 the file is supposed to run from frame 1-240 but the Norman character in it only moves up to frame 190.

Does anyone have a solution to this?

Sean - Aaron Koressel Scripts

Hey everyone, here are some amazing scripts from Aaron Koressel, Pixar animator. He developed these scripts for himself in Maya and implemented them at Pixar in their own software. Click on the "show demo" button to see what each script does. I would make sure you grab the ackPushPull and ackNegateKeys, they'll change your life, as an animator at least.

http://www.aaronkoressel.com/index.php?nav=tools

Enjoy!

West - Amazing Animation Tutorials

This is a link to Victor Navone's Blog. He has some of the best tutorials that I've ever seen, a must read if you are serious about animation.

http://www.navone.org/HTML/Tutorials.htm

Enjoy!