Animation

It's been a good few months since the last post, largely due to having a summer and being back at work - not easy fitting everything in when delivering new units. However, I have been spending quite alot of time enjoying said content, having to get an understanding of sculpting…

  It all seems to be coming together nicely so far with a couple of Addons that have been helping, namely AutoRig Pr0 and Faceit. The results have been great, I just need to make sure that the face rig created after the body rig, follows the head bone, or…

Well, it's been a long old time since I've written anything up here, mostly due to the last bout of my studies being taken up with the dissertation; a mahoosive exercise in research and writing, mine being on the usage of hands in animation, as a communication device and a…

For my final assignment we were tasked (catching up on old blog posts here) with creating a new, bespoke piece that hopefully shows the skills we have learnt. For my piece I wanted to go back to my pirate environment, as I felt some annoyance that the animation on my…

It's been a hectic last push while being back at work, post (ish) pandemic we are back to full timetables and classrooms, new groups and new curriculums with a not insubstantial amount of content to be generated. Happily for me I've managed to wedge in more animation teaching which is…

    A very enjoyable module this one, I felt like I have learnt a whole lot again. Indeed, looking back upon some of my earlier pieces I can more easily see the faults and what to correct, it will be good to go back with a deeper set of…

So, over the past few weeks it's been a bit hectic, as usual, lots of video sourcing for the specific actions and movements that are needed for my piece. It's largely been going in the right direction, the different sections have been married up together and are making sense. After…

After mulling over this module for a few days, my first decision was made quite quickly as I knew which rig I want to use, this lovely beast from Truong. He's a lovely mix of simplicity and character, lots of great shapes and expression.   The idea I shall be…

Last week we were given our new practical module, you guessed it, animals and creatures. Initially this feels as if it has both advantages and disadvantages. Firstly, the advantages compared to previous topics are that there will be less technical hiccups as less rigging and less lip-sync will be employed.…

So, after a good 5-6 days of being able to thrash out the animation, it's starting to come together at last, as such I thought I'd share a bunch of things that have been a part of how it was brought together, or more specifically how it has evolved. PreProduction…