This is a walk cycle WIP from a short scene I'm animating. It's the first time I've animated with the Mery rig (available from meryproject.com) and it's been a lot of fun to use.
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Rude Awakening
Character (Morpheus) from here: http://www.joshburton.com/projects/morpheus.aspChair prop provided by AardmanAll sound effects from http://www.freesfx.co.uk This is a short animation I created while a Trainee Animator at Aardman. I wanted to push my animation and go...
Animating a Horse III
Previous posts: Posing and Breakdowns. This is actually the hardest stage to describe, I think; there are so many small things that I do it's hard to summarise them. But I'll give it a shot! I normally don't use the graph editor all that much before the polishing pass...
Animating a Horse II
Find parts I and III here: Posing and Polishing. What with Christmas, applying for jobs, and so on, it's taken me longer than I hoped to do some more work with my horse animation. Today I've had the chance to do so! To find my first post about this animation, click...
Animating a Horse
Find Parts II and III here: Breakdowns and Polishing. One thing I'm determined to do is to keep animating in 2D and 3D. There are lots of free 3D rigs available online, so I downloaded Tomasz Jurczyk and Carlos Contreras' horse rig from here. I want to add variety...
Update
I've now finished the Aardman / NFTS Character Animation course ... twelve weeks over already! You can find my updated showreel (with lots of animation from the course) here and my new portfolio here. [NOTE: these pages no longer exist.] And now for something a little...
Walk and Run Assignments
Character provided by Aardman, animation by myself. The last few weeks have taught me a lot. There have been a few difficult days when I've really doubted my ability: "I'll never be an animator!" Somehow those dark moments were followed by days where everything worked...
Lunge and Baseball Swing Exercises
Animation by myself, characters provided by Aardman. I'm now about to begin my fourth week on the Aardman course. This video's made of the assignments I completed over the last two weeks. The lunge is the first character animation I've done in Maya. I had lots of...
Bouncing Ball
It's the end of my first week on the Aardman / NFTS Certificate in Character Animation. I've been learning Maya (help!) and animating different weights of bouncing balls. As Lloyd Price says, "It all comes back to the bouncing ball!"