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"Kiss Me, Please" work in progress
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TickyTicky 10 posts14 Apr 2007Hi everyone!
I'm currently in the final stages of finishing my 15 sec. animation for school and I was wondering if I could get some feedback on the animation and the lighting.
Objectives of the Assignment:
1. Show weight
2. Character has to walk in, sit, get up and take a few steps
3. Character has to show a change of emotion.
4. Animation can be no longer or shorter than 15 seconds.
Right now, I'm having a hard time getting the timing to feel right. It feels floaty to me, and I'm not sure how to fix that or if its just me seeing this.
I am also having a hard time with the arms. If you have any suggestions for making them better, the gestures better/more believable, let me know!
Here are some examples of the kind of winter light I was trying to get. I'm not sure if I accomplished this, let me know if you have any advice.
I'm just starting to learn how to use Renderman for Maya and a bit of raytracing, but I have not applied any of that in the animation you see now.
So yeah, any advice you have on the animation and or/how I could make the lighting better would be great.
Thank you so much!
Quicktime: 39.36 mb. If it takes to long to load, maybe try save target as.
http://webspace.ringling.edu/~kvvliet1/ ... sPants.mov -
14 Apr 2007very nice, facial expression will help a ton, but you can tell he gets sad at the end so thats pretty good. Fix the background, the trees are fine, but maybe add a horizon, or moonlight, just make it more interesting, add more depth.
Animations good, his tummy is weird when he gets off the bench.
You also might want to consider making the movie smaller, as I waited about 10 minutes for the movie to load completely, and its not even streaming so I had to wait till the entire thing was done before I could watch it. -
TickyTicky 10 posts14 Apr 2007My blend shapes didn't work for some reason-- I agree with you that they would of helped a lot. In rest post they worked fine, but as soon as he was positioned were he was suppose to be moving they would do start to deform oddly and not work. I'm sure there is a fix to it but I'm not sure how.
I'm trying to avoid the dreaded "swimming" pose to pose animation, but I'm not sure if I've gotten to a point were it doesn't look like that.
Thanks for the advice!
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I currently don't have access to Premier, but I'll have a compressed version of it up tomorrow. -
14 Apr 2007
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