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51 Great Animation Exercises to Master
Useful post on animation exercises at Animator Island. Check it out and start exercising today 🙂
Terms used for Character Rigger
Did you know!?
v. Character Technical Director (TD)
vi. Technical Artist
vii. Technical Animator
viii. Creature Technical Director (TD)
Character Rigging is the most confusing and misunderstood process in 3D animation pipeline!
It goes by many names:
i. Character Setup
ii. Character Rigging
iii. Character Enveloping
iv. Character Puppeting
v. Character Technical Director (TD)
vi. Technical Artist
vii. Technical Animator
viii. Creature Technical Director (TD)
GTC 2013: Face Works
Advance Real Time Character Performance demo by NVIDIA Co-founder and CEO Jen-Hsun Huang featuring Face Works technology running on the GeForce GTX TITAN GPU to create realistic simulation of human face. There is still a long way to go pass the Uncanny Valley but this looks promising!
Student Animation Snippet Exercise
The
principles of animation have been laid down by Disney Animators Frank
Thomas and Ollie Johnston in the “Illusion of life ” in 1981.
Some more concepts have been added over the years and one of the most
important addition, or clarification, is the concept of “weight shift”.
Here is a quick animation snippet by student Rajson Shakya.
Overlapping
Action is another of the cornerstones of animation. By overlapping the
actions of a characters’ body, hair, tail, clothing or for this
exercise, the arm; your animation will feel more fluid and life-like!
Here is a quick animation snippet by student Niroj Karmacharya.
To learn like Rajson and Niroj, apply to Puppeteer Lounge!
facerig test by erazerhead
Check out the face rig test by erazerhead! Cool stuff. It would have been even better if he had screen captured it 🙂
Houdini sparrow rig
Interesting Bird rig with procedural wing animation done in Houdini by Valerio Di Napoli.
Rigging & Python Programing Instructor ~ David Vega
Meet David Vega!
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David graduated from the Full Sail University in Character Rigging and Scripting. He is currently a Character TD at Durga Digital ~ Red Giant Studios and Burning Dog. Previously he worked as a Rigger and Techincal Artist at LLC and ESPN. He specializes in Character Rigging, Dynamics, MEL and Python scripting.
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I would like to personally welcome him into this new and exciting venture 🙂
“Welcome aboard David!”
Puppeteer Lounge Animation Workshop Promotion
At Puppeteer Lounge, we are really excited to announce our latest promotion!
We are now offering a substantial discount on our Animation Workshop
program. The price list is more affordable and flexible at the same
time. Meaning you pay less and learn even more =)
Head over to Puppeteer Lounge website for more info!
Python Workshop
Anyone with an interest in CG who wants to develop their technical skills further!?
Well we have recently launched our latest workshop focusing primarily on Python Programing.
Head over to Puppeteer Lounge website for more info!