For my OXUS project, my scene and animation is set in the ocean specifically on an oil platform. As such I wanted to gain a better understanding of how to animate scenes underwater, as the majority of the recovery process, and the animation, will occur underwater. So I purchased and worked through the Gnomon Workshops […]
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So this month in my schooling I am working through Character Rigging 1. and for this month I am building a rig for one of several pre-built characters. I will be creating and developing the skeleton, rig, controls and blend shapes available to the animator, which will be me. I chose to work with Dr.
This is a very rough draft of the animation that I am working on. The timings are still non-existent, and there is still a ton of work needed, which should be obvious. This is the vast majority of the thumbnails put into a linear transition mode. I was originally intending to post this with held
This is my check-in for week three, I had stated my goal for week three was to have my modeling completed and the initial pass on the animation put together. Unfortunately to my shame, I have apparently either overestimated my abilities or the amount of time that I would be able to devote to this
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So today I managed to build an ROV for use in the upcoming animation, it came together fairly nice and was an enjoyable experience. However yesterday I was working on a single point mooring buoy, it was not an enjoyable experience and was very frustrating. I think a large part of it was my fault,
I spent way too much time on this, but I am happy with how this is looking and I am very happy with my lines being quadded and holding lines appropriately placed on this. I hope that i will be able to model all aspects of the SHRC to this level. I know this isn’t
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Here is my final upload for the Merlin’s ball and Box project I was working on for FOA-O. I was called into to work today so unfortunately I didn’t have time or the opportunity to implement some of the final effects and passes that I was hoping for on this project. This playblast is my last pass
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Hello again, This week my primary goal was to get the vast majority of my base models built, I was also hoping to get my reference material gathered and uploaded in my post today. I appreciated the feedback on the storyboards, and the direction that you suggested is very much so what I was leaning
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Here is my fourth pass, on my Merlin ‘s box and ball animation, I’ve converted all my relevant tangent’s to a more appropriate type depending on their purpose. I’ve gone through and tweaked a whole bunch of the curves. I’ve also attempted to deal with the points that were brought up in the previous critiques.
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