Bethany Munoz

Piceno_Jesus_02

Cody - Final Project

Niz_Ashley_02

Cody - Chubby Rig

http://www.animationstudios.com.au/advancedskeleton/downloads

Cody - Absence

Hey guys, sorry I missed yesterday. I got the cold/flu thing that's going around. What did I miss? I'll keep working on my creature blocking, but is there anything specific due next week?

Cody - Constraints and Rendering

Hey David! I have a quick question about my scene. I followed your constraint demo and constrained glasses to my character's head. I wanted them to be animatable so they can bounce while she runs, so I parented the glasses to a nurbs curve, the nurbs curve to a locator, and the locator to the head control. The problem is, with this new constraint setup, the glasses disappear when I render in Mental Ray. I'm guessing this is because the glasses mesh have taken on the visibility characteristics of the curve they are parented to, but I'm not sure how to override that. What do you suggest?

Thanks!

Environment Resource

Hey guys! Here's a link to where I get most of my environments for scenes. The OBJ files work great, all you have to do is select the mesh and click Mesh>Separate to get started.

http://www.3drender.com/challenges/

May the Splines be with you.

VW Beetle Commercial The Mill

VW Beetle 2012

INSTRUCTOR POST - Welcome New Students!

Welcome to the AAU Fall Semester of 2014

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, 960x540, 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. You can edit the code to display the movie at 600x337 so it fits nicely in the home page.

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.

Vanessa_Creature

This one needs more work, but I made most of the changes discussed in class. I still can't get that jump/landing right though.. What am I doing wrong????

Vanessa_Parkour

I've made the changes discussed in class. Since I have literally been looking at this all semester I can't see my mistakes as easily. Anything else I could go in and fix?

Kalen Gil- In progress. any suggestions?

I was sick earlier this week. Finally caught up on most of my homework and am able to spend some time in the lab now. I am currently focusing on my bigger character. I fixed a few of the things you guys mentioned last time. he timing and when the arm went through the body. Going to continue to work on this guy but I wondered if you guys had any feedback so far with anything else I should work on.

Lip Sync - Camille Sloan

So for our next class we just need to have a rough pass on the lip sync like the blog said right? In that case I suppose I have mine "done".

Sophie Evans - Parkour Shot Rendered

Had some friends help me with lighting and rendering. Yaaaay!

Hand Constraints

I tried out the hand constraints but it ended up differently from the demo.

Here are the steps I did:
-IKFK blend to 0.1
-Clicked on IK control and show the prop and have IK follow to prop
-Have index_0_halfchild joint be the parent of prop

Then this happened. Please let me know what I did wrong >_<

Key Selected Hotkey Topic

Here is a link to a forum post about keying selected attributes and possible hotkeys for making that faster!

http://www.11secondclub.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=4144

Sophie Evans - Parkour Update

I forget what week this is, but here's an update. Tried to make the jumps faster, but I see here it still looks too slow. GUH! Also still trying to get the pull up onto the ledge to look better.

Parkour Reference

I was looking for reference for another project and although there was not much I could use for my current shot I wanted to share this clip from Casino Royale.

Kalen

Goats balancing

Just a video of goats balancing on a flexible steel ribbon, good for creature reference.

http://www.wimp.com/goatsfun/

N_Applebay Dance

I blocked out the chest, neck, head and hips of the character and began to plant the feet for them to pivot and change weight on.

Vanessa_Parkour_1st Pass

I only got major keys and barely started some inbetweens for the first part of what I'm planning on having him do

Sophie Evans - Parkour 2

Second post on my parkour progress.
I want a piece of the ledge to fall when he leaps and grabs it (which is why he is hanging by one hand there) Still very blocky but open to suggestions!

Help! No curves on a sphere

I don't know if you guys encountered this problem. For some reason one of my spheres (the pink one) won't show its curves on the graph editor. Any solutions? Thanks!

• Blue is named pSphere1 and the Pink is named pSphere2
• I duplicated these spheres at the first stage, in case it's one of the major problems

Sophie Evans - Parkour Idea

Here's my parkour idea. I wanted to do something EPIC! Any thoughts on how I can make it MORE EPIC!?!?!

George Ambartsoumian - PARKOUR REFERENCE

Hello everyone!

I've been spending some time gathering some reference for the parkour assignment and thought I could share the reference that I put together with you guys..... ENJOY


-George Ambartsoumian

INSTRUCTOR POST - Welcome New Students.

Welcome to the AAU Spring Semester of 2014

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.

Some real good dance moves! - Crystal Godat

Sax from Dean Heezen on Vimeo.

I came across this the other day and I thought this would be nice to share for the upcoming semester for future Character 3 class. Its 2D, but I still think the some great stuff to take away from watching it especially for those of you guys who might be doing the dance assignment! ;)