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Animating Lowman
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Demetrius 13 posts18 Oct 2005Hey People.
I've never animated a character before...:S sounds strange but i havent. I made a few attempts when working with max years ago but never to the degree of rendering it out for whatever reason and i cant remember what I was doing to be fully honest.
I assume the theory is the same as max though. Im working with the lowman rig. I haven't a clue where to start though. I've given him an initial pose and whatnot, but for stuff like making him walk (generally transforming his body) How? do i move that big thing underneath him? do i pick up his leg and move that with his hips?
Tyson, i figured you've done alot of short test animations, but then again you work with 3ds max however because the idea
is practically the same, how do you go about animating a character (no extreme stuff) just basic stuff like walk cycles, and stuff like that.
Anyone may feel free to comment, I just neeed a general overview of where to begin, how go to about it etc. -
18 Oct 2005Almost always I approach character animation like this:
-form an idea
-lock down emotions/pose-goals (ie....what the heck is the character going to do....no keyframing involved yet...this is all done in me head
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-keyframe character's center of gravity
-keyframe legs/feet
-keyframe spine/head
-keyframe arms
-keyframe hands/fingers
-keyframe any needed facial/extra animation
-tweak tweak tweak (x A billion)
-render! -
Metallicjet 9 posts03 Dec 2005hiya, umm, this is a really stupid question, very new to 3d, just wondering, what you mean by center of gravity??? -
08 Dec 2005The center of gravity of an object is a point at which the object's mass can be assumed, for many purposes, to be concentrated. For example, if you hang an object from a string, the object's center of gravity will be directly below the string. Thank god for wikipedia.
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