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Published: 2007-12-09 08:32:19 +0000 UTC; Views: 1974; Favourites: 17; Downloads: 446
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Work-in-progress for my 3D animation class. I still need to work some stiffness out of him, but he's coming along OK, I guess.EDIT: All my attempts to nitpick little problems brought up by my professor just ended up killing it. So this is the version I turned in as my final.
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A couple things seem a little excessive to me, but ofcourse I'm infamous for rigid looking animations. Excellent work!!! 
One question, was there any physics or gravity operating on him or was this all purely Kobb-awesome-ness?
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You probably wouldn't do this for a game because he's more perky and flamboyant in his motions than the driven "game character run," but I had to capture his personality.... and that just Levi. Bouncy bouncy bouncy.
I don't know how to make physics work with keyed animation... in Maya it's impossible as far as I know. But I suppose getting the question is flattering, so thanks.
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Bouncy... 
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Just ok?? No! It's awesome! I love the lope he has! This is a wonderful little bit of animation! very natural looking! Are you going to put more of a shaggy fur base on him?
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Nah, fur isn't worth the hassle for a test animation. I'm glad you liked it, though.
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FKldsjkfd dsfslkd I love the little cheetah in your avvie so much. ;w; (*Can't remember his name*) I sense some fanarts comin' on, lulz.
Great animation! :'D Honestly I don't see much wrong with it.. The motion of the head looks a bit stiff or something, but I can't pin down anything in particular.. But.. wow. He's animated so naturally.. I can see the effect of his weight falling on each foot. O: Just woah. I am amaze'd.
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The issue with his head is it pops a little bit. But trying to fix it only made it worse, so I left it alone.
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Lulz, fair enough.. xD It's not really noticeable unless you're looking for it.
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I don't know anything about animation so I can't offer any advice, but it looks pretty fluid to me. Animating does look like loads of fun though! (Or is it really tedious? 
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It can be either. If everything is clicking and coming out the way it was in your head, it's fun. If you hit a snag and can't fix it to match that vision for the life of you, then you want to put a sledgehammer through the monitor.
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Oh yes, that's much better. The leaning/bending in the torso is much more pronounced. The head is perfect now. He looks so pretty with the lighting. Are those depth map shadows?
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Nah, it's raytraced... depth map shadows always end up really ugly for me for some reason.
Pity on the background though... doing motion blur makes it ignore the ground plane for some reason. At least I have that nice lighting for my black backdrop.
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Raytracing, eh? I'll have to give it a go. Depth map shadows look like an attack of the evil pixels on my pirate. No good!
I have to say that I like the blue-tinted shadows, though. It gives it more life.
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Nonsense; he looks awesome! Good job; I can't animate to save my life. No attention span whatsoev- Is that a bug? Pretty bug. Must go pet. *stalks bug*
But seriously, he's so spiffy!
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Very nice job. 
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Oh wow! He looks even cooler whilst he's moving! 
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that is really amazing! 
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Very nice job! I don't think he looks too stiff, the animation appears to be very smooth!
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Ooo, Im impressed! Its coming along very nicely. Good work! You pwn me! Hahahah
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Aw, thankye! X) Too bad I still suck at rigging, but at least this attempt was better than last year's... he can do a lot more things and that helps.
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I suck at everything 3D. I am very impressed with you because you didn't give up lol. I just...ugh. Can't do it!
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Wow.. I'm really, really impressed! This instantly reminded me very much of the animation from Ice Age. Kinda cartoony, but still realistic motion. Really cool! Major kudos to you!
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Hey thanks! I think I'm getting a little better at making the computer do what I want it to... I look at last year's attempt and *facepalm* X)
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Hehe, I love how he runs. I could watch that head bobble all day. Nice!
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In my first test render his head bobbled too much... poor guy was giving himself whiplash and I couldn't have that.
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I'm guessing that you fixed the head movement since the post in your livejournal? I think it looks a lot better now. I watched it six times straight and didn't really see anything that needed immediate fixing. It's coming along great!
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Yup, toned down the headbounce... something else I added was rotation to his torso so it wasn't so stiff. Hopefully my teacher can give me some good pointers on Tuesday so I can improve him even more before I turn him in.
Thanks for looking it over!
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