Category: 2.1 Advanced 3D Anm with Ting-Term 2

This week I focus on plosh and add more detail if I notice some where need more adjust, for hand, I think the finger group should adjust better and more art way so I perform by myself and find the good way to hoding the fork after turing it. And compare the orignial hand animate and this one, I felt better for the new version.

Also, I follow the feedback made add more detail on the neck movement and head turning, make it natural and emotional, also the hand still moving not hit the wall.

This time we leand how to use anibot and knowing what is the animate layer. I think the layer is aims to: I can add the extra animation on the original animation. For example, The original animation ( Jumping at the point) can add a layer (movement location sth) make it Move while jumping， and also it can duplicate.

and Ting’s give us a good way to better transform the animation, that is using the ” animation library”. Remenber create the folder and change the folder route.

For my Advance shot, I fix parts of the point that were mentioned from Ting’s feedback:

• The shoulder should follow the move, do not freeze
• hand in part 3, like hit the wall, not natural, ( I realize this is the same problem when I animate the heavy object when the hip(COG) go back, and suddenly hits the “wall”)
• last part “hunted” when fork touch the table, the hand should still moving because the body will still have some push or slow down the attack
• F135, tone should show on
• Eyebrows stop when the facial and emotion going up and breathing.

And chichi and me stard testing how to constrain better, it really chanllange, we can not find the right answer by ouself, and we found if we create three locators to constrain the fork. and hand parent Locater1(L1) parent Locater2(L2) and parent Fork. For the first part of hand truning animation, and holding the fork Going down is another constraint, from hand to L3 to fork. then!

Success！！

This week we learned about the anibot and use it in a workshop on Friday class, also made a little animate for Mario’s flower.

I downloaded the rig, and when I try to move the control rig, I suddenly don’t know how to start the main part. Like every key should have a reason, I start think about how the flower stretches. Cause some time this steam cannot perform naturally, so maybe I need to adjust its angle. like this video below:

For my advance ani feedback: I fix the feedback mention’s problem, then

Acroding the feedback from last week’s dialog shot, I realise this is not good idea and not suitable to treat as homework, so I change my mind to the other dialog and shooting my own reference. this time I want to animate a bad guys character that will be fun.

For creature animation, I try to fix advance. those my reference that i found for facial animation and camara angle

There also a big problem of the last part of aniamtion, the fork, how to constrain with hand? and how to animate the hand with frok, because the hand which holding the frok is difference, and I just realise my maya work is difference with my reference hand. Ting said, it’s ok, but the holding hand should be the same one.

As Ting’s feedback, I could create two locator and constrain saperate thing, one to hand, one to fork.But my memory of maya constrain is so far away, so I have to go to have look at the tutorial. The two videos below show the parent with hand and stuff process.

This week 15, We start the next advanced shot. This week’s aim is for an idea, and I found a really interesting idea ：a special audio and I want to make it like animation shot. At the beginning I want to use just a girl perfrome the two character, actually it’s just like one character but think about two face.

The creature animation still needs some polish, but I learned Seiya’s method for keying the leopard’s feet. He said I didn’t rotating the rectangular control， I was just moving it. And don’t rotate the main controller. You should rotate using the small gear and the little ball.

Suddenly I realise this way really makes sense， and those are Mariana’s feedback gave me last week:

• The hip should up and down cause it is walking
• The shoulder can up and down more.
• The front step can be more. more wild vibe
• leaopart’s head should keep stable, not shaken

After feedback I try to fix the leaopart, but for me, especially creatrue animation, it’s really hard to adjust. Using the reference alone isn’t enough. Animals have so many small details in their natural walk , also like the head movement, how the feet turn, go up and land, plus the rhythm of the hips and chest going up and down.

And I started to search for some excellent animations on the internet, to look at other people how they animate creature.

This week, we should foucus on our dialog shot, and polish it, to make it better and more natural.

Also, this week Creature Locomotion, especially for the cycle and walking at a spot. Ting said:

“Always check your rig before you start animating your creature.”

At the beginning, this cycle is really confusing and not easy to understand, in other word, sometimes it needs a good calculation to better finish a cycle. Every step should be the same as the next one leg, and from feet up— cross the middle —— land should be the same distance. like -12 to 0 and to 12. This has “24” in the middle. In this case. It can be a cycle.

I still need to text the leg step distence, make sure it will not break the bone and lools natrual walking. And when I started to playback , My leopart become more and more separate. and I realise maybe somewhere forgot to adjust.

After cycle, the leg just flows on the ground. and every adjustment will breake the cycle. I feel terrable with this homework and stressed. uh, I doubt myself again. Luckily, the next day, I went to classroom ask my friends help. They said, don’t adjust the first and the last key, that will break the loop.

After my “okey It’s fine” cycle，I start adjusting the middle frame. When I rotate the feet, I used 3 control rig. and it feels like so bad and like robot. I feel like maybe I need more information, so I searching from Youtube try to find some reference more.

This week’s class is an online class because of the tube strike. And actally online class for me is no that good effect than on the classroom, cause some Maya technical problem need help, but is hard to explan and show the real problems. By the way, we also learned animating the overlap action on a game character. I really felt like a sence of encouragement in this time Maya working, because of the last week’s experience, and Ting show us the logical is the same in every overlap which we want to do.

About my dialog faicla animation, the feedback from ting are very improtant for next plish:

• facial eyes should change should be follow the body pose level, just like the principle painting preocess hould be the same level that Facial expressions and movements require synchronous coordination.
• Not be morrior pose
• Jae can be rotate! is not up and down.
• Mouse shape should use Zip control not use left and right, cause mouth always have a line.
• focus on vedio , means first match the vedio then stard adjust animation rythum.

This week we keeping learnd the facial expression animation, expecialy the mouth shape animate. First, I learn the how to animate :

• Step 1 :Jaw Opening
• Step 2 : Phonemes
• Step 3 : Polish

Jaw opening is find the accent of this sentence you want to animate, and not to leave transition linear which is usually open mouth. and the mouth animate is before 2 frams of audio.

Animate the sounds, not the words: is like when people speak the mouth show the shape and always connected so the shape will connect. when character say “O ” sound, the shape should not be a really circle but a ” round shape with liner line angle.

Workshop: firdays workshop is quite challenging and it aims to show the overlap animate, following action animate and like cloth, hair, creature tails, even wings. But, in my opinion is quite interesting to learn the new skills

I record reference by my self，including lots of idea like gesture or disney face something, but is hard to perform well because I need to show the real emotion and decide which I could animate.

When I aniamte Yulong’s body, I felt like: why his hands is really short!!! ohMG. And also, the audio can not be export into Maya i don’t know why.

This week we leand “Subtext”, which means character said words some time is not the true meaning But what do they really mean?，That is in the character’s performance. Performing is the real reacting.

We practice on ting’s class, and truly understand about it.

• Subtext is the message or communication ‘beneath’ the words the actor is speaking. It’s implicit, not explicit.
• transforming the meaning into a character with a rich inner life through body language

if we want to create a good subtext animation scens we must follow the tips that:

Such like: In some animation, A character says: I am FIne. But actually she/he isn’t really fine, even worse. For us the most important things is to understand true meaning’s performence way and know how the skills show and reflect in animation. Just keep going~ it still have long way to go

First see the finished version:

During last week and this week, I am very excited to fix them because i recieve lots of feedback, and I welling to fix them make the aniamte better and better. I must say I very much appreciate for Ting’s patience feedback one by one. my animate fixing list like

• 016 elbow pop
• 065 shoulder don’t sink too much( IN my understand that shoulder should more upper cuase is move foward the body side
• I notice the shoulder is really details and need to foucus on at the polishing process.
• 115 the body rotates back to the position is currently hitting a stop . should give it overshoot or be slower in
• when finishing the action, do not just moving the head, the body should keep follow move.
• MOST HARD PART for me is giving it 3 frames more. It is currently turning too fast. Watch out your spacing as well.

Actually those fix some times will cause problems in Maya, like when I adjust the timing ,I need move the time frame , such as from 116 to the end, totally move to +10 frame, sometime the angle will all change. The no over rotate part will be pop up to rotate too much or looks like broken. So I need adjust one by one to fix them again and agian. quite tricky way!