Kyle Remus - Dinosaurs Again

Hi folks,

This is nowhere near complete - I don't like how the lighting got super flared out. You can barely see anything. But I felt I needed to render something out to submit for the spring show.

But, that being said, this shot is still unfinished. Any feedback is greatly appreciated.

AmpaBesigye_Adam_progress

Hi guys,

This is my stage so far after addressing the critique that i got form class. I would like to ask if the mechanics are convincing to you so far etc. Your feedback is highly appreciated.

Adam

An_Reference Source

I just found this website and think it will cut a lot of time finding references :D. Some of the videos are free but eventually i think you 'll have to register for like 5$/year. http://www.rhinohouse.com

YuHeng Chen- CA in progress

Hi guys
This is my CA in progress.
I'll fix the pose of  running part.
It looks like a running rabbit more than a fox.....
Any comments are welcome.
Thank you.

David Yuen Wolf Anim

More WIP for my Creature Animation

JuYoung Jaung_Progress

Fox Animation Progress from JuYoung Jaung on Vimeo.

Hi everyone

I found other reference for wet dog shaking.
It still in progress. please give any comments.
Thank you :)

Hi everyone,
Hope you guys have a great week.
I changed the timing of my character. This is just half pass of my animation.
I keep trying to play out the perfect timing. It is really bugging me.
Thanks for any comment

Kyle Remus - Dinosaur Hell

Hi folks, sorry I haven't been posting to the blog the past few weeks. I've been super busy with collaborative projects. I'm struggling hardcore with this dinosaur scene so I figured it about time I reach out for help. Anything physical or simply getting a character from point A to point B is something I still don't have a reliable approach or workflow for. There's always a technical problem I don't know how to avoid or fix.

Rex is going to chase after the iguanadon, but actually animating the run is hard to wrap my head around (even with all of the reference I've collected). When I do walks or runs it's almost always a cycle in place - so I'm heavily dependent on the graph editor and a layered approach. I've tried, and this isn't working out here since Rex is translating diagonally to the world - movement in one direction is unequally affecting the TX and TZ curves in the graph editor which is a royal pain in the ass since I'm sure rotations are affected as well.

I thought of animating a run cycle on a clean scene and copying that animation here using the dkAnim script - but I figure things wouldn't carry over due to Rex's current orientation to the world (multiple curves for one translation).

BLAAAAAARG - any advice that doesn't include starting all over would be greatly appreciated,
-Kyle

UPDATE
So I presented my problem to my friend Alvin Geno and Mr. Dauterive in the lab. Both explained to me that the character's world control actually dictates all of his axis orientation verses the WORLD world. My mind was blown and I feel incredibly dumb for not already knowing this. My plan is to align his world control to his running path the second Iguanadon passes the camera, thus hiding the mess that Rex will undoubtedly go through. Hopefully I can plan better in the future for knowing this.

Cheers.

Cat Jump-Land Reference

To An (and other animators doing a cat-like jump/land): Here's a nice reference vid in slow-mo. Hope this helps! -Karl

Michael Grabski - More defined blocking

Sorry I couldn't make it to class today. I've been pretty sick for the past couple of days and hopefully I'l be good to go by the end of this weekend. I've been continuing on with the blocking and refining poses and body mechanics.  I feel that the chest is still stiff when he has his head in the cabinet and the tail also needs to be worked out around the same time in the animation.  Right now I am mostly looking at adding weight to the action and making sure that I wont have any weird interpolation problems when I take it out of stepped.  If anyone has any suggestions about timing or posing, I would love to hear them!  Thanks

An_Animal Animation Progress

Hi guys,
So far this is where i got to. I have a problem with the tail of Nico. When i rotated the root and tried to rotate the tail using the handles it broke the tail, making it look like stair steps. I had to put the joints of the tail into the position i wanted to the tail to be then i could rotate the tail. If anyone is having the same problem and know how to solve it, please let me know. Thank you very much.

Animal Reference

Hey everyone, I wanted to share a few websites that I found to be useful with video reference for alot of animals.

http://www.arkive.org/
http://referencereference.com/animals.html (there are reference for human action animation here too)
http://www.framepool.com/home/

 There was alot of good wolf reference videos here for those of you animating a creature with wolf-like characteristics.

Lin_Tsunghan_CA_In Progress

Hi all,
This is my CA so far. I fixed the camera just wanna toggle the character more closer.
I think I still have problem with the timing and spacing issue. any comments would be appreciated.

Cabrera_ Karl_Cat_Progress

Here's my current progress for my final. I got sick again this week so I'm hustlin' to catch up. I'm trying to think of ways to make the scene look more interesting so suggestions would be appreciated!

AmpaBesigye_Adam_ in Progress_01

Hi Everyone,

At this stage am done roughing in my body and feet. I haven't yet got to the tail yet. Am now going to start to define my motions and adding offsets. Your feedback is highly appreciated. Thank you.

Adam

An_Creature Animation Progress

I fixed the jump. Looks a bit better but still need to work on the timing of the jump and the feet.

Animal Animation Progress

David Yuen Wolf Anim

More WIP for my Creature Animation

Jon Hanson - In Progress

Hey everyone, I feel like I'm kind of behind, just moving from really basic blocking into some rough keying of the feet. Any advice would be much appreciated.


Happy animating everyone!

AmpaBesigye_Adam_In Progress_00

Hi,

This is my in progress with the foot work currently in progress. Your feed back is highly appreciated.

Thank you.

Mike Kersey - First Pass

Hey guys!

Here's my first pass with just the feet positions.  I haven't messed much with the neck or up and downs yet, just foot placements.



 

JuYoung_Jaung

Final_Fox_Progress1 from JuYoung Jaung on Vimeo.

Hi everyone.
This is my first progress of the final animation.

Lin_TsungHan_CA_blocking

Hello everyone,
This is my blocking thought. This rig is really tricky. legs and arms controls are not quite handy to me.

Henry Sanchez FOX [BLOCKING]

Hey guys Im still alive if any one is wondering, here is my blocking for my final, for some reason the shaders are not working on the rig, is anyone else experiencing this problem when working at home?

YuHeng(Yoyo) Chen-animation plan

I found that this character does not have eyes controller....I guess I have to change a character. Does anyone know where can I find his eyes' controller?

Thank you !

Marco Blocking_02

Hi class

This is my current work in progress

Marco

An_Animal Blocking Progress

Hi guys,
This is my progress so far on the animal. Havn't worked much on it, I'll try to get the rest done by next class. Nico is going to get down from the rock and look around at the end.
Animal ANM- Blocking

Marco - Blocking_01

Hi class

This is half of my blocking. I should have the other half worked out by next class.

Marco

AmpaBesigye_Adam_Blocking_I.P

Hi guys,

This is my blocking in progress as I work out the body mechanics and the feet positions. I want him to act like a lion. So am using cats, tigers, jaguars, leopards as well as lions for referece. I changed my plan from my initial idea. I now have him jump on a rock. Looks around and notices a dead deer and jumps on to the next rock and off and walks up to the deer and licks it.

All the best.
Adam.