It's All About History: An Animator's Poem

If I believe,

Even for an minute possibility

That this gets easier,

I haven't been challenging myself enough 

To get it right.

Dig through the cosmetic delirium of 

one's virtual space and

you'll find the blatant habits,

Brown paper bags full of empty 

instant coffee containers

cardboard pizza boxes,

and fermented snot globules

from the constraint of our

perpetual indulgence,

stress.

Sleeplessness isn't the disease,

procrastination is a virus 

spread by others,

gratefulness eludes constructive criticism

While dreams crack into rough edges,

Planes,

and vertices.

When the virtual space is switched to

reality space, 

Middle click drag not getting you anywhere,

Space bar don't give you new views,

Can't scale up your devices,

No spinning around and driving forward your advisement,

A fatal error isn't the end of existence. 

Remember what David says,

Help prevent RSI sir,

Unplug to restart, 

And try again.

LoFlo_Final_Koko Roll!

lee wulc

anything helps.

Jessie Manuel

Paranoid cat freaking out over nothing.

Note: The last frame is really weird. It doesn't show up when I play it on Quicktime and VLC but it shows up after I upload it on Youtube.

Mahdi_Ramez_Dialogue

This is what I have so far =D

Thio_Melanie_Name Change

Attention to David Latour and fellow classmates. 'Yume' is just me, Melanie Thio.
I posted a bunch of comments forgetting to put my name in and I can't seem to edit it.
That's it.

Crystal Godat - Creature Final

Rico vs. The Feather from Crystal Dawn Godat on Vimeo.

I originally wanted to use the Rexxy rig for this idea, but it proved to not be the best choice for what I wanted to do in the end. I decided to use the Koko rig and it got the job done. I'll most likely come back to this to do a render and add any additional polishing notes.

Great semester everyone, Happy Holidays!

Thio_Melanie_rendered

http://vimeo.com/81854830

JiYeon Kim(03686823) Work in progress

working on triceratops feet and body's balance.. also trying to smooth keys out and get rid of useless keys.
Since semester is going to end, I might post a lot for participation score..:^D....

Creature reference (Extras)

A cool creature made with a 3D printer if anyone's looking for good references that'll creep you out. Good for understanding balance and movement with multiple legs.

Thio_Melanie - default hand pose (angles)

We usually overlook the default pose of a relaxed hand. Here are some really useful different angles. Notice the curves contrasting the straight fingers,

Roscoe - the Secret of Animation

If you haven't seen this, you probably don't know the know secret of animation! Check it out!

http://vimeo.com/67501143

Crystal - More cool animal stuff!

Want some more cool animal videos? Check these guys out!

 Arkive animals!

Lee Wulc

comment  are welcome

Jessie Manuel Week 11 Cat Progress

Cat. Kitty cat. Meow meow meow.

Roscoe - Dinosaur Quickmeme

For all of us that wished they thought of this first.

http://www.quickmeme.com/p/3vpa2h

lee wulc

anything helps.

Roscoe - Spiderbot Rig

http://www.creativecrash.com/maya/downloads/character-rigs/c/spiderbot

Link to the Spider creature rig I'm using for my scene.

Creature/Animal Reference

This is a site I use a lot for collecting animal reference.They have all kinds of animals and tons of camera angles and walks/runs  http://greenscreenanimals.com/

Ji Yeon_Kim_Creature Animation Reference

I was looking for some aggresive quadruped. seems this one can fit for 2nd assignment..><.....

Crystal Godat: Prepping for the Creature Animation

I decided to work with the adorable Rexxy Rig for the upcoming project,

I gathered reference and decided to give this little guy a personality of a naive puppy who doesn't really know better. My reference includes different ideas I was playing with as far his behavior and the small nuances these dogs do when they come across a foreign object they find threatening.



And I decided to make a rough animatic to get a rough idea of timing and possible poses I would like to use (and exaggerate). Enjoy!



Rexxy vs. The feather animatic from Crystal Dawn Godat on Vimeo.

Kenichiro Chaffee-Llama Animatic

Heres a super rough animatic I made for the creature assignment. I'm doing a llama in Machu Pichu.

 

I use this site to download videos and audio

http://offliberty.com/

Liang Huo AFG Final

Patrick Blazin Final Dance

Swing from Patrick Blazin on Vimeo.

Final Final Dance cycle. Would like to do more if I didn't have so much outside stuff going on.

Crystal Godat: Parkour Final

Parkour Escape from Crystal Dawn Godat on Vimeo.

I felt that this project really challenged me and my understanding of human locomotion and mechanics. I'm definitely going to revisit this project in the near future to play with the lighting more and tweak his launch off at the beginning.

Crystal Godat: Parkour WIP

I'm in the polishing stages right now But I thought it would be cool to get any additional feedback for my benefit :)

Parkour WIP from Crystal Dawn Godat on Vimeo.

Kenichiro Chaffee-Does Anyone Else's Rig Look Like This?

Shalako Final Dance scene

lee wulc parkour

any thing helps

Jessie Manuel!

This is the farthest I've gotten for this project. :(! Lots of jitters specially in the transitions. Character: She's a childish, happy go lucky dancer who has a tendency to get into drunken pub fights.

Final Dance

Think the major issues I had with this were the pops and the fact I couldn't get the constraints to work hand to hand. I hadn't learned yet how to drive something that was equally driven back and forth. Also I gotta get this girl some heels. :)

Kenichiro Chaffee-Dance

This is what I will be turning in tomorrow. Unfortunately there are still some pops towards the end, but it's time to move on to the next assignment and I'll  revisit this later on.

Shalako Dance scene progress.

Jessie Manuel

What I have for the three strike so far. She's going to stumble at the end before going back to the idle pose.

Kenichiro Chaffee-Testing the Motion Blur

I did a quick batch render while I was working just to see what the motion blur would look like. I definitely like how much fluidity it added to the animation. 

Toy Story OF TERROR! will premiere WEDNESDAY OCT 16 8|7c on ABC!

http://abc.go.com/shows/movies-and-specials/blogs/movies-and-specials-listing/toy-story-of-terror

Ji Yeon Kim

I'm working on the right side character..T_T

Shalako's blocking for dance scene.

Shalako Here is my blocking for my dance scene.

Jessie Manuel

Character Description: A happy go lucky dancer. Has a tendency of getting drunk and getting into bar fights.

lee wulc

what do you guys think any think would help.

Shalako's Blocking poses

Here are my 1st three poses of blocking. Let me know what I can do better.

Keni Chaffee-Blocking

Here is what I have done for my blocking right now. I still need to add in some breakdowns between most of the keys.

Jonathan - AFG Examples

Hey guys, I was researching and came across these animation tests by Bradley Marques. He is currently working at Riot Games, and these are tests he did for a personal project. Pretty bad ass! Look at those smear frames ZOMG!

Walk


Run


Movement Test


And his Blog with art!

LoFlo_LipSync_WIP

Working on my lip sync! Still need to work on the staging for the second character. Also hands/fingers need some refining.

lee wulc parkour

INSTRUCTOR POST - "Glass Butterfly" needs animators

The collaborative project "Glass Butterfly" is looking for more animators.
Check out the trailer from the spring show HERE.


Glass Butterfly Spring Show Trailer (Work In Progress) from Jennifer Phang on Vimeo.
Animation lead is Alex Bittner,  producer is Alex Aponte and the Director is a member of the faculty, Jennifer Phang.

Your work on this project can be used as your coursework for the second assignment in this class. A great way to get collab experience and pad your reel at the same time you complete your classwork!

Contact Alex and Alex directly if you'd like to know more.

INSTRUCTOR POST - Welcome New Students

Welcome to the AAU Fall Semester of 2013

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. 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.

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 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.

4. 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.

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, 640x360, convert to .mov, with H264 compression)

·         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.

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.

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.

Andriy_Muzychenko_creature_Final

My final version of creature assignment. Thanks for any comments!

Andriy Muzychenko AFG_Final

Hi! Here is my final AFG, I try to fix couple things especially run2stop. It was great semester with great class! Thanks everyone, and have a fun summer!

Saloni - Final of acting shot

Hey! This is my final for he dialogue, acting shot.....I hope you guys like it and do let me know what you think....Thank you!

Eric Sanchez AFG

Here is my final for the AFG project

An Nguyen_AFG Final

So i put everything together. The run cycle still has some issues with the hip. Probably when i copy the cycle i forgot to fix the end of it to match the beginning so it begins to mess up as i further copy/paste it. Will certainly fix it later when i have time but this is what i have for now.
Good luck with your finals

Andriy Muzychenko AFG

Cabrera_Karl_AFG_Finals

Here it is! My finals for Animation for games.
IDLE
GESTURE 1

GESTURE 2

IDLE2RUN - RUNNING JUMP - RUN - RUN2IDLE (all-in-1)

ATTACK

Saloni - Acting shot

I am almost done with this piece.....I wanted feedback of the second characters movement....Is it too much or too little?  Any feedback would be really appreciated. Thank you!

Gavin Tai game aniamtion

Nguyet Anh Nguyen_AFG_Final_Finish

Hello all! I am unable to join you guys today because I'm still trying to get over the stomach flu/food poisoning. Please give me feedback and have a wonderful day!

ethan

An Nguyen_AFG 3 Strikes in progress

I didnt notice that the first punch is holding for a few frames when i was working on Maya. Gonna make that a bit faster later.

Andriy Muzychenko_Idle

An Nguyen_AFG Idle to Run_Run to Jump

An Nguyen_Good Website for References

http://www.rhinohouse.com/

Cabrera_Karl_AFG_Progress

RUN
 
ATTACK (planning)
 
GESTURE1
 
IDLE
 

Anh Nguyen_AFG Creature

Saloni - Acting shot - polishing

An Nguyen_AFG Idle

My latest AFG Idle and Idle to run

Andriy Muzychenko AGF Strike Attack

Gavin Tai - game animation

Here is my attack animation

Saloni - Acting shot - WIP

Nguyet Anh Nguyen_AFG Finish_v1

An Nguyen_ AFG Progress

Only got to finish the Idle and first part of the Idle to run for this week. For the idle stance, the timing on the fists still need some work on it. Guess i need to boost the speed up next week :S

Nguyet Anh Nguyen_ Attack AFG

Cabrera_Karl_AFG_progress

IDLE
 
 GESTURE
 
 RUN
 

Saloni - acting shot - work in progress

Saloni - Dance animation

Cabrera_Karl_AFG_Idle_Progress

Hey all. Here's my progress right now. I decided to rework my idle, but I'm still not fully satisfied with it. My character's descriptions are: Menacing, Angry, and Bulky.

Nguyet Anh, Nguyen_AFG Update Latest

An Nguyen_AFG Idle progress

Hoping everybody is doing well. Here s my idle progress so far. Testing out these poses to see if they look like from a gangster. Any suggestion will be very appreciated! Thank you

Saloni - Lip sync pass

Just got the lip sync finished and started work on the body and blocking the expression.

Anh Nguyen_AFG Idle, Runcycle, Idle2Run

A few test animation, please leave your feedback.

Eric Sanchez Game Animation

Here my idle cycle for the Animation for Games assignment.  Feel free to be harsh in the critiques.

Gavin Tai Game Animation

So i choose to do double sword game animation. Double sword is all about steps and balance (from my Chinese Weapon Dictionary Book), pretty much like dancing. Any comment are welcome.

An Nguyen_Parkour Final

Hi guys,
Working on the Game Animation animation but i think i should post this fixed final of the parkour animation since i am going to submit it for the 10 secs reel submission. There is one part where i am really unhappy about is when hes jumping towards the pole to swing, bet you will all notice it :((. I fixed the timing there then saved it (i think so...) but then somehow it wasn't saved then i continued to work on it without noticing the timing  is off there. I don't know i will have enough time to fix it then submit it before the deadline but i'll try.
Anyway here it is, leave any comment i appreciate it :). Will continue to work on it whenever i have time.

Parkour Final

Andriy Muzychenko creature

Gavin Tai - Parkour Final.

My parkour jump. It's pretty hard to but i finally did it :D If there's something i would like to change or shouldn't do in the beginning....i would not move his main control, it's just make everything hell.

Nguyet Anh, Nguyen_Dance Final

This is the Cut and fix one This is the original.

Saloni - Final Dance piece.

For my dance piece, I chose to do "Kathak", an traditional Indian classical dance form.

I thoroughly enjoyed the entire process of animating this piece and learnt the pluses of good planning and strong poses and importance of a good workflow. 

An Nguyen_ Parkour Final

Ok so i have finished it! Not totally perfect but i am pretty happy with what i have. I also learned many helpful tips so that i will not make the same mistakes as i did in this project. Anyway here it is and i hope you guys are all doing well with your animation.

Parkour Animation

Cabrera Karl, Dance Final

Here's the final version of my dance. Phew! Looking forward to seeing everyone's work!

INSTRUCTOR POST - Get those 10 sec reels in!

Spring Show is fast approaching - so make sure you get your Spring show entries and 10 second reels together. You can submit material here:

VFXgateway.wordpress.com/spring-show/

These reels are what the visiting companies use to figure out who they'd like to talk to. You can't win if you don't play!

10 sec reels are due: Sunday April 14th by 11:59PM
Spring show entires are due: Sunday April 28th by 11:59PM

Cabrera Karl, Dance

Here's my dance animation. I cut the length of it to make the deadline, but I'm pretty happy with the end result. After doing this piece, I realized that hip-hop is very challenging to animate since there are so many poses in quick succession. On top of that, there's the task getting the snappy timing and the physicality of it working properly. Gah!

Parkour Final

It was pretty hard to deal with 360' spin, this is my final.

(for people who is thinking to do a 360' spin like this - USE FK FOOT! NEVER USE IK FOOT for this, such a pain in the a**!)

Saloni - Dance Polishing stage

Please help me out with any feedback you have! :)

Nguyet Anh Nguyen, DanceFight Rountince

I still struggle with the Timing any comments and critic is much appreciate. Thank You

Saloni - Second Pass

Saloni - Blocking Dance

INSTRUCTOR POST - Welcome New Students

Welcome to the AAU Spring Semester of 2013

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. 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.

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 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.

4. 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.

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, 640x360, convert to .mov, with H264 compression)

·         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.

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.

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.

Kyle Remus - Chain Gun Chip - Final

Here's the final compilation of Chain Gun Chip!

ALVIN GENO_CLASS ASSIGNMENTS: GAMES AND PARKOUR

ANIMATION FOR GAMES

anm games compiled from Alvin Geno on Vimeo.

PARKOUR ASSINGNMENT

parkour from Alvin Geno on Vimeo.

CAT ANIMATION

cat anim 02 from Alvin Geno on Vimeo.