tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-77588058353474322602024-03-14T09:42:55.779+00:00nzc. student archive4th year Animation student at DJCAD.
<br><br>Character Rigger.
<br>Character Animator. Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10722839395569671975noreply@blogger.comBlogger32125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7758805835347432260.post-74289178177102661952013-05-07T12:42:00.000+01:002013-05-07T12:43:56.043+01:00Done!So yesterday, I gave my presentation and... that's it! 4th year all wrapped up! Madness.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I'm hoping my presentation and the work I handed in do me justice. I really am terrible at documenting my learning, it all goes in my head and blogging/sketchbooking after a hard day of Maya isn't something I often remember to do. I wish we had interviews along with our hand ins, but alas. It's hard to see the effort that goes into learning the technical side of things. I think my presentation went pretty well, I can never tell. I rambled a lot, but I always do when I'm giving a presentation! I'm actually rambling now, haha.</span><br />
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I really have worked myself dead this year, here's hoping it pays off. I know I've let myself down with the lack of drawing I've managed this year, but I really did just get caught up in the 3D world. Working in Maya is draining! My technical skills have benefited though, and over the summer I will re-acquaint myself with the good old pencil and paper!</span><br />
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This week, I'll be tying up the loose ends, and compiling a showreel that I can hopefully include in the Degree Show. Then it's onwards and upwards! Got a couple of classmates keen to keep working with me, so hopefully something'll come of that. The last 4 years were great, but the degree was just the beginning. I've wanted to be an animator since I was about 5, and I'm not stopping here!</span><br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10722839395569671975noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7758805835347432260.post-32249997323180082112013-05-05T22:02:00.000+01:002013-05-07T12:25:04.591+01:00Animation!<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">This year, my sub-specialism has been "Character Animation". I was able to do some animation for Stupid Kow at the start of the year (I animated the Farmer character). Towards the end of the year, however, with the way things have gone for myself and for a lot of the films I have worked on, my hands have been full with other things taking priority due to time constraints. Fortunately though, over the last few weeks I have been able to get back into animation, and work on a couple of new projects- mine and Rob's<span style="font-size: large;"> </span>project<span style="font-size: large;"> "iR" </span>and Dan's film <span style="font-size: large;">"Wet Paint".</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">For<span style="font-size: large;"> Stupid Kow</span>, I did the full animation of the Farmer, which consisted of a walk cycle, an arm gesture, and some lip-sync. I worked closely with director Jamie Buchanan to get what he wanted from the shots, and I am pretty happy with how it turned out. It was nice to be on the other side of my own rig as well! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">For </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">Wet Paint</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">, I was given the character shaking his can, spray-painting a little, then walking towards the camera and doing some expressions and arm gestures once he was there. I'm happy with my effort, except for the walk. It took me a while to get to grips with a 3d walk cycle, and being pressed for time it did end up a bit rushed. As I was trying to do a cautious walk, I was falling into the trap of making his upper body look too stiff. At this point, the walk is still pretty stiff, but I am going to continue to work on it in my own time, just for my own learning's sake really. Although I'm disappointed, I'm taking it as a learning curve- I know I can do better, and I will!</span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10722839395569671975noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7758805835347432260.post-17163628480952183872013-05-05T21:00:00.000+01:002013-05-07T11:29:37.958+01:00Rigging SummaryOver the last couple of days, I have created some "summary blogs" so that a basic idea of the rigs are easy to find.<br />
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This year, I have really developed a passion for rigging. My classmates have produced some beautiful models, and bringing them to life has been very enjoyable.<br />
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I have found that amongst students, rigging is often considered a very technical specialism which doesn't allow for much creativity, but my experience has been opposite to this. <br />
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Of course, there is a lot of technical learning involved- I have watched countless tutorials and read various books over the course of the year to aid my learning. The creative side of rigging comes from what you do with your learning. <br />
Tutorials are brilliant resources, but you have to remember that often the way things are done in step-by-step tutorials isn't the ONLY way. There are many exceptions to this, and often there will be cases where the way you are taught is the correct way, and there's no point messing with it, and that's fine. But, there is no harm in trying things out. <br />
Mixing things you have learned from all over the place, trying to think of new, better, quicker ways that things might work. This is what I have been striving to do with my rigs, and I have come up with various creative solutions to little problems that popped up. I look forward to continuing my learning after graduation, and hope that my rigs until now have been everything the animators needed them to be!<br />
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At this point, I am very comfortable with the basics of rigging, and I have begun to branch out into more advanced learning. I am confident with joint placement/set up, I am familiar with the use of IK and FK functionality, and becoming confident using splines. I am confident creating and linking controls. I am confident in animator-proofing controls. I am confident in my skills with weight painting, and look forward to moving on to explore Maya's features for creating advanced muscle deformations. I know a good handful of mel, and am continuing to learn about scripting. I have also used expressions successfully.<br /><br />I have a good knowledge in biped rigs, including foot rolls, forearm twists, the functionality of shoulders, clavicle bones and various spine set-ups. I am also confident rigging hands and faces.<br /><br />I have a basic knowledge of rigging quads, which I am continuing to develop. I have become very familiar with various aspects on animal anatomy, and this knowledge has been and will continue to be invaluable.<br /><br />Although my interest lies with character rigging, I will be looking into other aspects of rigging, including props and environments.<br />
<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10722839395569671975noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7758805835347432260.post-34160759282475830042013-05-04T14:00:00.000+01:002013-05-07T09:07:19.587+01:00iR rigThe iR rig was a lot of fun- nice an simple!<br />
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As he has no limbs, rigging his body took minutes- the controls are basically only there to make sure no one touches the geometry. The character can be rotated and dragged all over the place very easily, the only thing I really had to work with was where each object's pivot should be, and whether anything should be parented to anything else.<br /><br />His hands were good fun. He has a sort of thumb/1 big finger thing going on, and these are made up of geometric shapes. Myself and Rob decided the individual sections of his finger should bend a little, although he's a robot, as this added a humanistic quality, and gave him a bit more life.<br />
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His eye was where I had the fun! I created a control pad so that it could be moved around, morphed and blinked easily. It's very simple, but I'm really happy with it, and more happy that I was able to whip it up so quickly! The way the eye/mesh around his eye moves has the same "humanistic" quality that we went for with the fingers. Although he's a robot, there is something lifelike and relate-able, and we felt this added a lot to the character's performance.<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10722839395569671975noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7758805835347432260.post-17454327313311443782013-05-04T12:55:00.000+01:002013-05-07T08:55:17.874+01:00Krokodi Rig<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I was pretty excited to have been asked to create a rig for the Kroc Dee character in the Krokodi project. As the character is a sort of biped/quad hybrid, I was able to take a creative approach to mixing the things I had learned previously about rigging different kinds of characters. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I was able to implement some smaller "control pads" into this rig for the animators as well. The eyes and eyelids have additional curves, to make moving both sides simultaneously a bit easier. The tail also has a hide-able control pad, allowing the animator to quickly curl the tail. </span></div>
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10722839395569671975noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7758805835347432260.post-26712105413191914102013-05-03T22:00:00.000+01:002013-05-07T10:46:51.756+01:00Fearg Na Mara RigsFor Fearg Na Mara, I created 2 rigs- the Kelpie rig, and a Murdo rig. The kelpie would be posed for stills, and the Murdo rig would be used with the 3d water/boat scene, and finally drawn over.<br />
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The Kelpie was my only Quadraped rig, and I was happy to have the chance to try rigging quads. I learned a lot about horse anatomy too, haha!<br />
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<span style="text-align: left;">I had a few problems with topology on the Kelpie model, most notable around his front legs. This was a bit of a pain, as the modeller was convinced it could be fixed with weightpaints... but eventually, it was changed and all was well!</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10722839395569671975noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7758805835347432260.post-25690650313639035222013-05-03T21:37:00.000+01:002013-05-07T08:48:13.014+01:00Stupid Kow Rigs<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">For Stupid Kow, I created 2 facial rig setups. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The faces are controlled by joints, which are made controllable to the animator through the selection of various nurbs curves. The animator has the choice of using the curves directly on the character's face, or using the "control pad" I have created, which appears to the side of the character's head (control pad can be hidden to avoid a messy scene). In a bid to make the interface as user-friendly as possible, the control pads for these rigs are set out to resemble each character's face. The animator simply translates the curve which resembles the part of the face they've like to move, and the change can be seen on the model in real-time.</span><br />
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<li>head control</li>
<li>ear controls</li>
<li>moving eyes</li>
<li>eyelids</li>
<li>blendshape-based mouth</li>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">For the Kow, I had to adapt my original plan for his mouth. As the topology wasn't ideal for rigging his mouth, and the modeller wouldn't adjust it, I had to think of an alternative way. After speaking with the director, we decided to use blendshapes.<br /><br />The blendshapes worked fine, but there were some issues. Firstly, the a few of the blendshapes would clash with the body mesh when in use- something that rigging and good weight-painting avoids. To work around this, I created additional weighted controls for parts of the body- the chest in particular- which meant they could be pulled in when a clash was visable. <br /><br />Another thing I was unhappy with, was that the animator was having to use the blendshape menu for animating the face. I decided to build an additional control panel, which would activate the blendshapes instead. Using these controls, I could also link-up the controls I had added to fix clashes, so that the clean transformations could be achieved using only 1 control. I was also able to link the "additional teeth" so that they would automatically show with the correct blendshapes.<br /><br />Overall I am very happy with these rigs- they were an opportunity to try something different, and to problem solve. No one had any trouble animating with them either, which was great! </span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10722839395569671975noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7758805835347432260.post-75228974298026648002013-05-03T18:00:00.000+01:002013-05-07T08:33:19.681+01:00Wee Monsters Rigs<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">For the Wee Monsters project, I created 4 rigs- 3 of which I finished, one I am still working on in hopes of including it in my showreel by the Degree Show.<br /><br />The Boy (Sam)<br />The Girl (Ellie)<br />Monster 1 (Grumbles)<br />Monster 2 (Waddles) <i><span style="color: red;">unfinished</span></i><br />Sam and Ellie's rigs are almost identical, with the exception of Ellie's hair being movable. These were the first rigs I created, and while they took a big effort and a long time at the start of the year, they are my simplest most straight-forward rigs.<br /><br />They use a typical joint set-up, and have fully rigged faces. The animator is able to pose them using nurbs curves controllers, and the faces have the option of a "control panel", and additional interface I have created to make facial-animation more straight forward.<br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Chest Control</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">IK arms with elbow aim control</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">hand control (with "fist" and "spread" attributes)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">individual finger controls</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Neck control</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">head control</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">move-able jaw</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">rigged mouth</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">rigged eyebrows</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">moveable eyes</span></li>
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<li>COG control</li>
<li>spine controls</li>
<li>FK arm controls with elbow aim control</li>
<li>"flex" controls</li>
<li>hand controls</li>
<li>"forearm twist" expression.</li>
<li>finger controls</li>
<li>neck ctrl</li>
<li>head ctrl</li>
<li>fully rigged face </li>
<li>eyebrow controls</li>
<li>moving eyes</li>
<li>closing eyelids</li>
<li>moving jaw</li>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="text-align: left;">Grumbles was particularly tricky, because of the fact he has 6 arms, and the way in which these are laid out. Each arm has an additional upper-arm section, which meant I had to adapt the usual methods used on a typical arm. </span><br style="text-align: left;" /><br style="text-align: left;" /><span style="text-align: left;">After struggling for a while I got an IK set-up working, but in order to have the arm move correctly, it had to be animated using 1 particular procedure- start at the top of the arm and work down. This was because unlike a typical arm, I was using 2 IK handles, basically treating the additional section as an extra shoulder. Although it worked, I was unhappy with its "animator-friendliness", so I ditched the idea and set up FK arms- which actually gave way to much easier animation. </span><br style="text-align: left;" /><br style="text-align: left;" /><span style="text-align: left;">Another point of note on his arms is his bicep muscles. I had initially resigned to the fact I would have no time to learn how to create realistic muscle deformations, learning Maya Muscle etc, but after a brainstorm I decided to try something out. </span></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10722839395569671975noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7758805835347432260.post-43304716362127039542013-04-03T18:06:00.003+01:002013-04-03T18:06:35.023+01:00KROKODI<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Today's progress so far-<br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The Kelpie rig is done!<br /><br />I finished the rig a few nights ago, but I have been putting off writing a blog. So here it is!<br /><br />I'm not gonna lie- the kelpie's rig has been largely based on the DigitalTutors "rigging quadrupeds" tutorial. Something that really annoys me about resources like DT, is seeing countless versions of the exact same rig. Our studio is a fine example of this- with not many people specialising in rigging, and no one really teaching us anything, DT is the first stop for creating rigs. I fully understand this, but it saddens me that people are generally copying these tutorials step for step, rather than learning from them and attempting to put their own creative spin on things.<br /><br />I have tried, where possible in this rig, to use a collection of my learning. For the majority of the time, I would watch a bunch of DT videos without working along, and then I would take a break. I would then open up the Kelpie file, and start building from what I had learned. Anything I didn't know how to do, things which I hadn't really "learned" from the videos, I would then use google and my own rigging books to try to find the answers. I have found this method a good way to understand what I'm actually doing, rather than re-hashing someone else's work.<br /><br />ANYWAY<br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><u>The kelpie </u></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The controls are pretty typical. The controls displayed as Box Curves affect the area they encompass- this can be seen in the video at the top of the post. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The hip control is displayed as a H, and the Joint Control Curves are used to direct the knees and the neck. The star shape is the Global Control.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Many of the controls on this rig have Custom Attributes. </span><br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10722839395569671975noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7758805835347432260.post-74567701391965629732013-04-03T03:45:00.002+01:002013-04-03T05:37:47.697+01:00KROKODI<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">After ceasing production on my own film "Wee Monsters" for various reasons, I have been well received by other production teams who were looking for some help. One of those teams was Krokodi.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The film blog can be found here- <a href="http://krokodi.blogspot.co.uk/">http://krokodi.blogspot.co.uk/</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">For this project I will be rigging the Crocodile character.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I've only been working on this project for a few hours (over the last week), but it now has my full attention. Tonight I built the main skeleton, and I just have a couple of things to work out-<br /><br />- how to position the clavicle to get most functionality<br />- how should I rig the spine</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">- how to create "bulge" in chest, for when Croc eats hunter</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">As the character is a sort of biped/quadruped hybrid, I am having to solve these problems rather creatively. Rather than being "problems" per say, I am enjoying learning through rigging this model. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I see no reason why anything shouldn't work so far, although I'm sure I'll come across some problems soon enough! So far, everything's going swimmingly and I'm thoroughly enjoying being able to combine elements from my previous rigs. <br /><br />To do list for tomorrow- </span></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Rig foot (inc. foot roll)</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Another film I have been rigging for is Fearg Na Mara, directed by classmate <b style="font-size: x-large;">Freya Allan. </b>The piece is mainly 2D, with 3D elements. You can follow it's progress on the blog- http://kelpiefilmdoj.blogspot.co.uk/</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">For this project, I am rigging the Kelpie character. The kelpie was designed by <b>Kirsteen Mullay</b> and modelled by <b>Erin Thomson. </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Keeping up with the good tradition of any model I try to rig, the kelpie has had a few topology problems! The main problem is at the underneaths of his forelegs, where they meet with his torso. Lack of topology at the joint is allowing for limited moveability, with any overstretch of his arm causing a sharp edge of stretchy under-arm skin. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">During my final year, I have been working on the short animation <span style="font-size: large;">"Stupid Kow"</span>, directed by the one and only <b>Jamie Buchanan</b>.<br /><br /><i>http://stupidkow.blogspot.co.uk/</i><br /><br />For this film, I have been rigging and animating, with my main focus on character performance and facial animation.<br /><br />The characters I was working with are-</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The characters's were designed by <b>Jamie Buchanan</b>.<br />They were modelled by <b>Karla Zero</b> and <b>Slava Lawson</b>. <br />Their bodies were rigged by classmate <b>Ben Rogers</b>, and were then passed on to me to rig the faces.<br /><br />The facial rigs went through several versions as I continued to develop my skills, and as I encountered various difficulties with the models along the way.<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><u><b>Kow</b></u></span><br /><br />Before beginning Kow's rig, the director pointed me in the direction of his various influences, and we discussed the style of animation he was hoping to create. As the character is very stylised, research into real life cows was very minimal. I looked firstly at other characters who are "humanised" in the way that Kow is. Characters I looked at included-<br />Looney tunes, Family Guy, Tom and Jerry, Roger Rabbit etc<br /><br /> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br />When rigging Kow's face, I experienced difficulty with the model. The Kow's face topology wasn't set up in a way which allowed for a good, easy to manipulate skin bind. When these issues were raised with the modeller, I was told there was no time to correct them, so I had to figure out a way to proceed. As the skin around the mouth was buckling and showing hard edges whichever way I attempted to rig it, I hesitantly decided to work with blendshapes on the character's snout. I discussed this with the director, and we agreed that this would be the easiest way to try to create exaggerated expressions as close as possible to what he was looking for. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The first rig used CV curves to control a basic joint/cluster set-up in the character's face, and an over-complicated bone structure within the head. The jaw bones were later discarded, as they were unable to work when implementing blendshapes on the snout.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Here's a final progress report- </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">On beginning to animate them, I have noticed a few problems. The deformation of the shoulders, neck and bum aren't working correctly. Rather than over-complicate the rig (which will take up too much time on a schedule that is already quite far behind) I'm going to mess around with using blendshapes to add the necessary bulges/creases. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">At this point, over the Christmas break, I will be revising the film. After this semester it has become apparent that I have far less of a team than I need, and the current targets, while not impossible, will be a struggle to meet. I am hoping to cut the story down to around a minute and a half, so I can spend enough time learning what I need to learn to complete it to a good standard. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I'm rigging the faces of the main characters, Kow and the Farmer.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">2. Use PoseLibrary (created by myself with the help of Google and several sources) to save various preset expressions, using reference from "Wee Monsters" storyboard. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The icon on these buttons is an image of a head I've taken from the internet <span style="font-size: xx-small;">(it does not belong to me, but I couldn't find a credit for it!)</span>- I'll change these to icons better suited when I'm working on real projects. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">So here's the blank Pose Library, created with the help of several websites, forums and books.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">To create the shapes, I used used the mouth controls to imitate the shapes from my reference material, starting at the Default Pose each time. Now all the poses are saved as buttons, I can easily click between them and key them using the first buttons I created today (the select controls buttons). <br /><br />These shapes are probably too extreme for most dialogue- to soften them, I would use the method shown earlier (using in-between poses). </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I'm attempting to cut the animatic, and choose 15 seconds for the Christmas hand in. I'm also doing some work for other films this week, so I'll be quite busy, but I'm here if anyone needs me!<br /><br />Cheers,<br />El Capitano</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10722839395569671975noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7758805835347432260.post-25355465716923377332012-10-07T23:46:00.004+01:002012-10-07T23:46:51.695+01:00Modelling<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Okay, so on Friday I had to do some modelling for my film. I'm no good at modelling, but here's what I managed! (bed, clock, toybox, cup [+ pen, pencil + crayon], lego, paper)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Spent a lot of time going through the audio I had gathered from my kids actors (for the wee monsters film).<br /><br />Other than that, I've been messing around with trial rigs for the kids and the kelpie. Getting back into the swing of things.<br /><br />Watched a few Tutorials earlier in the week, mostly on DT, about facial rigging, and setting up buttons with pre-set poses for characters. That'll be particularly useful for expressions and lip syncing. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I'm just about to go and rig my animatic children better, and try creating some pose buttons for them. Should keep me busy into the night, and if all goes swimmingly it'll make this 'animatic by Tuesday' thing a whole lot easier to achieve. And I'll be learning as I go. See, I'm so clever sometimes. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Go have a wee look at djcadmonsters.blogspot.com to see any progress :)</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10722839395569671975noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7758805835347432260.post-49363308307992442412012-09-18T21:29:00.002+01:002012-09-18T21:29:23.037+01:004th Year. So it begins (continues?)<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Week 2, day 2 and already my head is exploding. In a good way, I think. </span><div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Thursday- <span style="font-size: x-small;">Life drawing. Prepare animatic timing.</span> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Friday- <span style="font-size: x-small;">Talking to 1st years. Chase up models.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">So there it is.<br /><br />From now on, I will blog more often. Please, contain your excitement!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Catch!</span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10722839395569671975noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7758805835347432260.post-58342843888176887872012-05-02T00:52:00.000+01:002012-05-02T00:52:08.918+01:00Semester over...<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Time to start doing some work?<br /><br />Peculiar, yes, but with the pressure of pre-production deadlines now fully behind me, I can get stuck into things.<br /><br />This week I have been re-teaching myself how to model, focusing on simple bi-pedal characters. Over the next week or so I hope to bash out the 1st version of the boy and girl characters, so I can learn how to rig faces sooner rather than later.<br /><br />Since the aim is ultimately to have total control over the characters' faces, that's something I'd like to spend a lot of the summer working on.<br /><br />Here's hoping the modelling goes, ahem, smoothly...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Until next time!</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10722839395569671975noreply@blogger.com0