Reference for Flying Fox Midterm

Here's some tail movement reference of a squirrel for the Flying Fox midterm.

This is another reference.

Pendulum Homework Assignment

This is my pendulum homework. It was more challenging than I thought it was.

Pendulum Homework Progress

I could not load my Pendulum file of the work I've done so far. I'm not sure what happened but I get this message everytime:

"Errors have occurred while reading this scene that may result in data loss. Please check the Script Editor for details."

I'm not sure what this means or what to do.

Week 4: Keith Lango

This is a three part tutorial of artist Keith Lango talking and explaining what overlapping and follow through means in animation. In this first part uses a simple animation just like the Pendulum homework assignment for this week and tells what overlapping is, which basically means something that drags behind when something moves. To me, the first thing that comes to mind is the tail of a flying kite. I agree with Lango that this is difficult to comprehend and even though I still have some trouble translating this fully to my assignment I also agree with him that it's so simple. Lango goes on to introduce the Breakdown Drawing and how this simple thing is the key to everything and defines how to get from one extreme (drag) to another extreme (overlap) and the combination of the two. This drawing is of three key parts; the drag extreme, the overlap extreme and the breakdown (combination of half drag and half overlap). I also learned that if you animate the drag too much it creates "a pop". The shapes are key. It's not really about timing but more on how the shapes move.

This second part continues with the breakdown drawing and when the animation makes a stop the breakdown almost forms an 'S' motion (easier to understand in Graph Editor). And the breakdown lessens everytime it goes from one extreme to the other extreme. Lango explains that if the animation is a little stiff on the back and forth movements it means that the extremes need to be more extreme and overlaps have more overlap.

This final part, Keith Lango basically explains how the Breakdown Drawing concept applies to things like tails, ropes, limbs, spines, etc., and applies this example to a simple character animation. Although Lango animated much of this by keyframes I think this becomes a little easier to understand by looking at the Graph Editor.

First Bouncing Ball Homework

This is my bouncing basketball homework.

Boucing Ball Reference

This is a video of various balls bouncing off concrete. There's an exercise ball, a basket ball that's not completely inflated, a plastic ball, a softball, a baseball, a tennis ball and a weight ball.

This video is of a bowling ball bounce.

From Week 1

This is a Maya tutorial. This tutorial talks about basic modeling and short cut controls. It shows how to navigate through perspective view and how to shape primitive objects. It shows the shortcuts to how to view a shape in wireframe mode, shaded form and unshaded form and shows the option of having the polycount display. Also, how to make custom shelf as well as how to add more to subdivision width, height, and depth and how to switch from Object mode to Edge, Vertex, and Face modes.

This tutorial here is of a basic walking motion using 24 looping frames. This video was very informative and it also shows how complex animation can be even with basic movement such as walking. The video also refers viewers to check out CreativeCrash.com, which is a website for 3D and animation.

This next clip is more of an inspirational video. I've always said that as superior as heavyweights like Disney and Pixar are sometimes I don't always want to see cute 3D animals talking. Sometimes I wish there were more 3D animated movies with real life characters. And this is why Resident Evil Degeneration is one of my favorites. Not only because of the 3D but because it also includes one of my other favorite genres: zombies. In my opinion it was a well animated film.