Finky Pei CA Final

Smalgren Beata CA

Fox Brandyn CA

Finky Pei CA Final

Sui Ying_Final Creature Animation

He Yiqing CA

He Yiqing CA

He Yiqing CA

He YIqing CA

He Yiqing CA

He Yiqing CA

Smalgren Beata CA

Fu CA week13

Andrew Haugen Week 13 Progress

Luke CA

He Yiqing_CA

Fox Brandyn CA

Rashinkar Nihal Creature IP3

Luke CA

Smalgren Beata CA

Sui Ying Ng CA Progress

Nihal Creature IP2

He Yiqing CA

Fu_CA

He_Yiqing_Reference

Wolf Jumping Down Reference

@BrandynFox 0:19

Wolf Jumping Down Reference

@BrandynFox 0:19

He_Yiqing_CA

Smalgren Beata CA

Pei_Fu_CA_Week9

Smalgren Beata CA v02

Andrew Haugen Creature Animation Final Week 08

Hey guys, sorry I wasn't able to make it to class today I had some electric car trouble unfortunately :( I at least wanted to post my pawn animation and maybe get some feedback from you guys as far as timing and the broad strokes of the animation. Thanks!

Smalgren_Beata_CreatureAnim_v01

Fox Brandyn MC Final

Sui Ying Ng Final MoCap

Andrew Haugen Final MoCap CleanUp

Pei_Fu_MC

Smalgren_Beata_MC

Luke Chen MC

Andrew Haugen Mo Cap Change Log

I find it helpful to keep track of the changes you plan to make as you are making them with the moCap assignment! It really helps to keep organized and wrap your head around the dense data that MoCap gives you.

Pei_Fu_MC

Sui Ying - MoCap

Fox Brandyn MC

Smalgren Beata Trot Cycle Final

Nihal Rashinkar Trot Cycle Final

Trot_Cycle_Week_04_Andrew_H

He_Yiqing_TC

Sui Ying Ng - Horse Trot Cycle

Pei_Fu_TC

Nihal Rashinkar_Trot Cycle w/ Rider

Sui Ying_TC_V03

Smalgren_Beata_TC_v02

Pei_Fu_Week2

Sui Ying_Trot Cycle_V02

Fox Brandyn

I just came across this video of a horse gallop on a treadmill. I thought it might be useful to others, plus it's pretty cool. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=saDP7OE7-FE

Fu_TC_week1

Haugen_Andrew_Trot_Cycle_Week_01

Yiqing_TC_Week1

Brandyn Fox Trot Cycle Week 1

Smalgren_Beata_Trot_Cycle_Week1

SyncSketch link: http://www.syncsketch.com/playground/ebd8fd2a6ac349b981ec27b021bfe926

Sui Ying- Trot Cycle- Week 1

Nihal TC Week01

INSTRUCTOR POST - Welcome to AAU Fall Semester 2016

Welcome to the AAU Fall Semester of 2016

There are hidden instructions in this post to test if you read it entirely!
There are also 2 intentional typos - cookie points to you if you find them!

This is a persistent online site I use to allow students in my class to solicit and offer feedback on their animation. There are a few important notes;

1. This blog is as helpful as you make it. Be active with comments, post your work regularly and take advantage of this venue. Monitor this site at least once a week. I will use this as a forum to make general announcements and answer common questions, so you don't want to miss out. Any post from me will have "INSTRUCTOR POST - ..." in the title: make sure you read them carefully.

2. I use participation here as part of your class participation mark. Participation accounts for 20% of your total grade! If you're shy this is a great way to be involved in the classroom discussion. You get points for posting your work or for giving feedback on other people’s animation. Bonus question: ask me right now how to get 100% on your participation grade!

3. Title each post with your name, for example: “David Latour: Blocking Pass 1”. Your blogger ID may not be something I recognize. You don't want to miss out on participation marks when you post here. Qwigybo!

4. Conduct yourself here as you would in the class. Play nice with others and be supportive and constructive with your comments. Limit the posting to information relevant to the class.

Even If you're new to blogging you'll find this a pretty painless and straightforward process. If you have something from class you'd like to show, use the following steps:

• Playblast your work (16:9 ratio, 960x540, convert to .mov, with H264 compression) 
• Click the 'insert a video' button and browse to your movie file.
• Be sure to put your first name in the post title.
• You're done! 
• continue reading to see how you can adjust your video size to fit nicely on the page.
• also, here are additional instructions to share video from another site
• Post the movie file on any video streaming site (YouTube, Vimeo) 
• Copy the “embed HTML” from the streaming site 
• In blogger click "new post" on the upper right corner of the screen and click on the "edit HTML" tab on the top right of the new post and paste the code in the window. (You can edit the html so that the video size is 600 x 337, to fit nicely within the blog interface.)

5. Blogger works best with Mozilla Firefox, or Google Chrome. If you have technical issues: try switching your browser. Make sure you login with the Google ID that you were invited with or you won’t be able to post or comment. Scarmfargle.

6. Check out SyncSketch: a great tool for posting your work and getting feedback. We're going to make use of this handy website occasionally through the term.

Every time someone adds a new post or comments on an existing one, I get a direct email. I try to look in here regularly and offer critique and guidance as well. This blog will be available to you as space allows, which means you will be able to continue posting here after the end of term. (You may even see former students offering feedback here.)

Welcome to the blog and have a great time.

*Your first assignment:  Post your name in the comments of this welcome message with a sentence or two about what you hope to learn in this class.

Merisia G.// Creature Anim. Update

SyncSketch

Welton Yang Week 15

Carlos Moreno Week 15

Although it went unfinished, I learned a lot of stuff relating to doing an IK style movement with the neck with FK controllers. Took an annoyingly long time, but now I'm pretty confident in how to do it now. I also figured out how to do realistic wing flaps while flying, landing, and in place. I also learned that my workflow of working slowly but paying attention is more valuable than trying to work quickly. Slow is smooth, smooth is fast. Lastly, I had a lot of questions regarding doing my own minor rig adjustments to this piece, and feel that rigging should be learned by all animators to a fairly deep level.

My SyncSketch

BONUSES:

Merisia G.// CA Wk15

SyncSketch

Kathryn Bumala - Week 15

Shot 7 (Ignore First 50 Frames!)

Shot 19 (Ignore First 50 Frames!)

Shot 21

Tran_Sarah_CA

  SyncSketch

Welton Yang Week 15

http://syncsketch.com/playground/c97eb6bac4454c3fbaec09fa0a288609#85175

15)WEEK YEA EUN KIM. without back ground and dragon cycle

Camille Sloan - Week 15

http://syncsketch.com/playground/cdb3d790c6844cfa9be5e81fd34d288b#85169

Yibo Wang

Zhang_Polly_CA

Jasmin Guinn week 15

Nick V Creature Week 15

My attempt at lighting a scene through playblasting.  Also the image plane may be more distracting than anything. Things to look for: 2nd to last and last hop, mostly the ending, the dive bomb over, and foot shapes.

Phillip Isaacson


Final

Jasmin Guinn

Merisia G.// CA Wk14 Update

I decided to change the camera angle and take the lizard out of the scene from before, and still needs work and polishing. Let me know any feedback you have for me. Thanks.

SyncSketch

Jasmin Guinn Latest pass

Kathryn Bumala - Week 14

Shot 21 Click Me

Nick V Week 14

Last part is a little wonky and I need to find good reference for it.  It feels like a bird of a heavier weight.

Jasmin Guinn Update

I have a class tomorrow so I will not be going to the make-up, but Here is what I've done after class today.

Also:
SyncSketch

Jasmin Guinn week 12 update

Kathryn Bumala - Week 12

Shot 7: Click Me!

Shot 19: Click Me!

Yea-eun Kim

Camille Sloan - Tiger Dialogue 4

http://syncsketch.com/playground/6f5b5fa77b6849f78ec8e0ecc523c985#82454

Yang Welton

Welton Yang

Week 12~~

Phillip Isaacson

SyncSketch

Tran_Sarah_CA

  SyncSketch

Merisia G.// Creature Anim Progress Wk12

SyncSketch

Yibo_CA

Jasmin_Guinn_CA

http://www.syncsketch.com/playground/7d96b4f0666c4a6b835fe24b33782a51

Nick V Creature Pass

Head is still a bit wonky.  Feet need some work in posing.  Still can't figure out motion blur.  No real detail work on wings yet.

http://syncsketch.com/playground/d18db3f5a3484863ae00c177dac26510#82444

Linius Gunardi CA Final

Camille Sloan - Tiger Dialogue 3

http://syncsketch.com/playground/0c8c986111e8414f931ae1282c859f0e#81165

Yibo_CA

LOOK: Cool Tools

For those who learned about spacing by creating your line of action in 2D (drawn) and wondered if there was a way in maya: there's a way to do it by using the drop down menu > animate > create editable motion trail. HOWEVER, it's not a very intuitive tool, and it's pretty robust. Corey (the lab tech) showed me this: Cool Motion Path Tool!

Yang_Welton_Week 11

Week 11~~~

Zhang_Polly_Week 11

Nick V Creature Pass 3

Here's my 3rd pass. Head still needs tweaking.  Had some trouble with the speed of the 'glide' over. Looking for more of a dive bomb feel.

Camille Sloan - Tiger Dialogue 2

http://syncsketch.com/playground/46db26c784284c06a1831283d92c63e5#80884

Jasmin Guinn Week 11 progress

C.A. - Week 10 - Kathryn Bumala (Shot 6&7)

SyncSketch Link: http://syncsketch.com/playground/b605cb728e6e47129d97e8b71bc3ae27#78255

Yibo_CA

Moreno_Carlos_CA_week_10

Ignore head pop, it's an aim constraint snap, easy fix- was focusing on feet.

This one with the background

Merisia G.// Creature Animation Progress

SyncSketch

Jasmin Guinn

Camille Sloan - Tiger Dialogue

http://syncsketch.com/playground/e4941baa07324ddf94189df3d1a93804#78248

Yang Welton week10

Hi this is the Welton Week 10~

Zhang_Polly_KoKodag

Nick V 2nd pass

Merisia G.// Creature Anim. Progress

INSTRUCTOR POST - Dave = sick. No class tomorrow

I have the flu and I just don't like to share. Sorry. Class will be rescheduled.

Jasmin Guinn Reference

Jasmin Guinn/ Blocking

Yibo Wang Layouts

Merisia G.//Creature Block Pass

SyncSketch

Tiger Dialogue Layout Camille Sloan

http://syncsketch.com/playground/3f31c341d68a4d6abfde041383ed3fe4#75193

Carlos Moreno Creature Animation 2nd Pass Blocking

Syncsketch

Where I'm at in the shot: There is more to the shot, but focusing on these frames at the moment. I'm debating closing the wings first, then ducking, closing them as he goes down and reopening, or closing them after he ducks. A friend suggested having him go on all fours instead of all this, and leap to flap up instead of what I have. At the end the big flap lift off is not perfectly time because I was focusing on all the actions going on before that. Also, curls haven't been added to the wings.

Yea_eun_Kim_Dog

http://www.syncsketch.com/playground/091937bb4d0f457c8a5fdc14cb911138#75179

Polly Zhang_Frightening the dog

Welton Yang Week9

This is Welton Yang week 9, First layout, waiting for your opinion, what happened here in this shot? I will up data by the time~ Thank you~!

Tran_Sarah_CA

http://syncsketch.com/playground/c9e870949da448da8aa1c041d8d87fa3#75172

Nick V CA 1st Pass

http://syncsketch.com/playground/7887b6a7037a4eeba3fefc83cf903b7f#75173

Yibo Wang CA

Nick V Creature Layouts

Merisia G.// MoCap Progress

Here is my MoCap assignment. However, I could not place the skin texture on the character for some reason.

Polly Zhang_horse trot

Camille - Attaching a rider

Here I have recordings of David's demo on how to attach a rider to the horse in case anybody missed it. Sorry if the quality is messy, I don't have the time to go over these videos, hopefully someday David could make another write up of these steps or a demo recording of his own ;)

Part1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NXlIfItHgM
Part2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FHQZTij8ms
Part3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dotZnK6SpIg
Part4: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OsabFjkaC48

Nick V Horse Trot

back hips seem wonky to me. Also, not sure if the head offset is right.

http://syncsketch.com/playground/b0e47fae65b44ee0b36bd25c85a24fc7#66267

Hi, I'm Yenny Kim.

Here is my horse trot for week1.




http://www.syncsketch.com/playground/4fed13c0654c49a78d3e4bcf8164c3f3#64748

Helpful Horse Walk/Run Videos

Heya everyone! Check out these helpful YouTube videos on a horse walk and run. If you haven't seen them before, they're helpful on breaking things down.

"How To Animate a Horse Run" by Richard Williams

"Animating Horse Walk Cycle" (also by Richard Williams?)

- Kathryn

Jasmin Guinn. Trot Cycle Week 1

Hi,

Here's my trot cycle for week 1. I watched the tutorial videos and got a little confused because it's more like a "gallop" instead of a trot but I just stuck with the slower pace so hope that's okay. Hopefully I did it correctly too.

http://www.syncsketch.com/playground/5bb941397c84492d929bbc2a60318056

INSTRUCTOR POST - Welcome to Spring 2016

Welcome to the AAU Spring Semester of 2016

There are hidden instructions in this post to test if you read it entirely! 
There are two intentional typos - find them and get a cookie point!

This is a persistent online site I use to allow students in my class to solicit and offer feedback on their animation. There are a few important notes;

1. This blog is as helpful as you make it. Be active with comments, post your work regularly and take advantage of this venue. Monitor this site at least once a week. I will use this as a forum to make general announcements and answer common questions, so you don't want to miss out. Any post from me will have "INSTRUCTOR POST - ..." in the title: make sure you read them carefully.

2. I use participation here as part of your class participation mark. Participation accounts for 20% of your total grade! If you're shy this is a great way to be involved in the classroom discussion. You get points for posting your work or for giving feedback on other people’s animation. Bonus question: ask me right now how to get 100% on your participation grade!

3. Title each post with your name, for example: “David Latour: Blocking Pass 1”. Your blogger ID may not be something I recognize. You don't want to miss out on participation marks when you post here. Chumwii

4. Conduct yourself here as you would in the class. Play nice with others and be supportive and constructive with your comments. Limit the posting to information relevant to the class.

Even If you're new to blogging you'll find this a pretty painless and straightforward process. If you have something from class you'd like to show, use the following steps:

• Playblast your work (16:9 ratio, 960x540, convert to .mov, with H264 compression) 
• Click the 'insert a video' button and browse to your movie file.
• Be sure to put your first name in the post title.
• You're done! Garfleckmah
• continue reading to see how you can adjust your video size to fit nicely on the page.
• (the following are additional instructions to share video from another site)
• Post the movie file on any video streaming site (YouTube, Vimeo) 
• Copy the “embed HTML” from the streaming site 
• In blogger click "new post" on the upper right corner of the screen and click on the "edit HTML" tab on the top right of the new post and paste the code in the window. (You can edit the html so that the video size is 600 x 337, to fit nicely within the blog interface.)
• Pro tip: Go HERE to see how to remove related videos at the end of your post. Snazzy!

5. Blogger works best with Mozilla Firefox, or Google Chrome. If you have technical issues: try switching your browser. Make sure you login with the Google ID that you were invited with or you won’t be able to post or comment.

6. Check out SyncSketch: a great tool for posting your work and getting feedback. We're going to make use of this handy website occasionally through the term.

Every time someone adds a new post or comments on an existing one, I get a direct email. I try to look in here regularly and offer critique and guidance as well. This blog will be available to you as space allows, which means you will be able to continue posting here after the end of term. (You may even see former students offering feedback here.)

Welcome to the blog and have a great time.

*Your first assignment:  Post your name in the comments of this welcome message with a sentence or two about what you hope to learn in this class.