The first animation of the production piece is a walking animation. This animation was made following the guide I created by tracing over the video I took as reference. This displays the pose-to-pose principle as the guide features key positions of the character rather than every pose in the sequence. Read more…
I have made another animation guide for my third animation, this animation will be the character walking. To create this guide I took a video of myself walking in different ways. I realized towards the end of recording that I would need to be able to use the visuals to Read more…
By tracing frames from this clip Dragon Ball Super: Broly (2018), I have created a guide for animating my character. This animation shows a character warming up before a fight. I thought this appropriate for my character as they are a fighter themselves. I will be altering the movements and Read more…
As part of my characters animations. I need to be able to have it form a fist. I have used driven keys to make the process quicker. Driven keys are much like key frames though they are controlled by attributes rather than me moving elements individually. This means I will Read more…
I started out by rigging a premade character though when it came to weight painting this character, I had trouble due to the layered clothing. I switched to a different premade model to overcome this problem. After rigging the character, I weight painted it. Following the order of Hips to Read more…
This weeks lab had us going over weight painting. The process started with flooding the character from the hips, then the bottom of the spine. I then smoothed this to have get rid of creases and unnatural looking elements. After that, I moved onto the left leg. Moving on, I Read more…
The first animation I will be making will be the character fighting. To help with animating this, I have traced over the YouTube video Punch and kick references for Artist – Martial Arts (2014) using the software Krita (2022). I moved through the video frame by frame taking a screenshot Read more…
In today’s lab, we made blend shapes. Starting out, I added three nurbs circles. I place two over the eyes and one around the circles, slightly manipulating it to form around the circles. I parented the left and right circle to the larger circle and renamed them to left, right Read more…
This weeks lab session had us add controllers to characters, we also had a short introduction to weight painting. A key point to remember when adding controllers is to freeze the position of the Nurbs circles so that they can be returned to default positions easily. I started by opening Read more…
In today’s lab session, I rigged a character model. I started by adding joints from the toe to the top of the leg, with one join being placed above the crotch. I changed the size of the joints so that they would be easier to work with as they were Read more…