Animation Tips

Bill Broeckel’s shares his opinion in facial animation polishing

Puppeteer Lounge animation instructor, Bill Broeckel shares his opinion on facial animation polishing:

“Often times when animator run into polishing the facial animation, it
becomes intense and confusing! Keys get shuffled all around and you need
to be able to keep track of them so to spot errors quickly, or when you
have a hiccup and are wondering what’s causing it. The curve editor
will of course come into play as well, but not as much as for the body;
it’ll be more of like a rough pass to get some curves going and then the
rest is just placing keys and not worrying too much of what the curves
are doing.”

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Fridge Monster

I just stumbled upon this really resourceful site!

Go ahead, check out some really useful and fun tutorials
on setting up mechanical rigs for animation such as gears and piston
and other cool stuffs over here.

From Walking In Place to Walking In Space

A demo on converting or baking animation of a character from local space to world space using the Locinator tool by Keith Osborn. Locinator tool is available at cgmonks.com.

Useful stuff!