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Apr26 2

Animation Challenge on CGTalk – Finalising

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...

Apr22 2

Animation Challenge on CGTalk – Refining

Posted by Avner Engel in Animation

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...

Apr17 0

Animation Challenge on CGTalk – Second pass

Posted by Avner Engel in Animation

Here is what I have got so far for the second inbetweens pass. Animation Challenge on CGTalk second In-Between...

Apr16 0

Animation Challenge on CGTalk

Posted by Avner Engel in Animation

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...

Apr12 1

First acting for animation exercise

Posted by Avner Engel in Animation

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...