3D Character Design

3D Character Design

Animation Practice

My week plan for the module

Animation Practice

Another ragdoll test, this time trying with a staircase

Animation Practice

For my final animation I have decided to put together three 10 second pieces including; a fall down the stairs, being thrown from an explosion and the voluntary cliff jump. I'll include a slow motion wrap around shot for each to fully show the movement, scene elements will be fairly basic but enough to give an impression of the scene.

Project Research

I've found a good article on photorealistic and outdoor lighting here:


http://www.itchy-animation.co.uk/light.htm

Gives a good general overview

Animation Practice

Here I rotoscoped a fall from a rope swing, when the body lands it gives a good example of squash and stretch as the body lands and the legs kick upwards. I used after effects to save the video out in an image sequence and kept the framerate low (8fps), I then used this sequence to trace the fall and saved each trace out in sequence so it was recognised as a batch file by after effects.