Animation Challenge on CGTalk – Finalising

Posted by Avner Engel on Apr 26, 2007 in Animation | 2 comments

After I was away from the computer for few days, I finally managed to finalise the animation challenge piece for the CGTalk website.
Few more poses were taken out to simplify the animation. To top it up I added some more blinks and tweaked the eye movementin order to improve the tension.

Here it is, any feedback or comments are welcome.

Animation Challenge on CGTalk – Refining

Posted by Avner Engel on Apr 22, 2007 in Animation | 2 comments

Here is the spline pass for animation challenge #7 on CGTalk.

I modified and changed the walk cycle and the timing of the reaction by the red character. I took out few of the poses as it was overpowering and a little too distracting from the main action of the character to the left.

Animation Challenge on CGTalk – Second pass

Posted by Avner Engel on Apr 17, 2007 in Animation | 0 comments

Here is what I have got so far for the second inbetweens pass.

Animation Challenge on CGTalk second In-Between pass

Animation Challenge on CGTalk

Posted by Avner Engel on Apr 16, 2007 in Animation | 0 comments

Hey all,

A couple of days ago I decided to jump in the deep end and participate in one of the CGTalk’s animation challenges. I have to say that so far from what I have seen there is some great animation happening on the thread.

The requirement was to choose between a character getting hit by a projectile and the second being a dialogue which is taken from the movie “Eurotrip”.

I chose to animate the dialogue from the movie and below is the blocking of the the animation so far.

First acting for animation exercise

Posted by Avner Engel on Apr 12, 2007 in Animation | 1 comment

Yesterday after a busy week of distractions, I managed to block out and pull off my first acting for animation exercise. I am pretty pleased about the result.
I downloaded the rig from Highend3d and the audio clip was sampled from “Family Guy”.
What is uploaded is a playblast, a more polished render will follow in the next few days.