Workshop – Rigging the Face and body with AdvancedSkeleton5
Workshop with Alan.
Workshops or Lessons
Animbot Workshop
Animbot Workshop – With Fung Leung (Michael) Things I learned more about through this workshop: Animbot buttons and use. Creature animation. Reminder about how to add a reference video. Quadruped animations – not to use. Curves of the hips and chest in quadrupeds. Positioning of COG (centre of gravity) for weight distribution. Hips always twist …
Workshop – Facial Rigging
Technical workshop about facial rigging with Alan. Center of gravity (COG) is needed in a rig. Class Overview Completing body rig. Joint rigging vs blend shape rigging. Onsite vs offsite rigging. Binding the head / jaw. Using ‘off site’ rigging techniques: Blink. Using ‘off site’ rigging techniques: Brow. Using ‘on site’ rigging techniques: Blend shaping. …
Technical Workshop – Advanced Skeleton Rigging and Blocking Animation
Tutor – Toby. Learning and using the ‘Advanced Skeleton’ plugin to rig a character. 1.1 Punisher Model Rigged using ‘Advanced Skeleton’. 1.2 My Character ‘Luna’ Quadruped Rigged with Advanced Skeleton. Issues with the Rig There was an issue with the eye controls. When using ‘advanced skeleton’, there was no main eye control to move the …
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Technical Workshop – Modelling
Technical Workshop. Tutor – Alan Postings. 1.1 Modelling Basics – Dice model Techniques Taught: Bevel. Helps to hold the model’s shape when smoothing. Extrude tool options. For example, Offset and local translate Z will work on all of the selected faces relative to the selection not the world. Smooth and smooth preview. Smooth preview will …
Week 6 – Compositing Workshop
This compositing workshop was an exercise to show a method of compiling sound effects to an animation using Premiere pro. Fortunately, I have already used Premiere much in the past and can do this without this instruction, nevertheless, I rarely use this method, so it is still useful. Workshop method: I aligned appropriate sound effects …
Staging and Story boarding
Staging and Story Boarding – Lesson Notes Story boarding: the WHAT of everything? This includes: Style Character How may of them, environment, camera angle etc. Style Humanoid vs cartoon character Real World Simulation vs Anime 2D vs 3D Laws of physics Storyboard determines style, but style does not determines the login of your animation. Storyboards …
Critical Thinking
Critical Thinking Lecture Notes What is critical thinking? Asking questions Double meanings Criticising How things fit together Coming up with ideas. Being a good critical thinker you should be aware of your own bias and try to expose something that is false. Key words related to critical thinking (my words of choice): Facts Judgment Objective …