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03 Jan 2009Yo!
http://www.jaygrenier.com/animation/rag ... 01_low.mov
Started a new project, it's an animation and effects shot based off of the Akuma character in the Street Fighter series. The poses and timing are loosely based off the move, but I went in and altered a lot to match the character better and just to get some timing that worked better for this type of project.
I'd like to get some feedback on the animation so far, especially on the end part when he gets back into the pose. The idea is that it's a cycle so he needs to go back to the same pose, and relatively quick, but I want a nice balance of good animation with a video game feel.
Motion blur is a large part of it since he is moving rapidly so I did a test render to see what things are looking like. Lighting, materials etc. are all temporary right now.
Once I've got the animation working I'm going to start working on some effects for the attack. Potentially some camera movement, it's so short though I might just leave it stationary.
This is the original move. Any thoughts? -
04 Jan 2009Got some great feedback from a few people on how I can work the timing and add a few more poses here and there, going to rework this one quite bit. Fighting an uphill battle trying to do a cool action shot with this rig, but...it's fun anyway.
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04 Jan 2009mind posting what their feedback was? and what makes it such a battle with this rig?
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05 Jan 2009Main thing with the rig is that his body type just isn't very masculine. He slouches a lot at nuetral, and he is very lanky with sinky shoulders. So when you try and do something heavily masculine and "tough" looking you're already starting at a huge disadvantage. Not to be said it can't be done, but if you compare how cool Akuma looks with his outfit and how heavy and thick he is compared to this character it's night and day. Another thing is the cloth, they get a lot of their secondary and follow-through animation with the outfit which I don't have..so I have to change the animation so it doesn't stick as much to make up for that.
The main feedback I got was just that, since I don't have cloth and can't mask things with effects (yet) I need to work my animation so that it comes through in it's place. For instance when he twists, getting the body there a lot quicker and dragging the arms a lot more. Also, Akuma doesn't really anticipate what he's doing at any point, because in a fight game for one it needs to be fast as hell, and two you don't want anticipation because you don't want the other guy to see what your about to do.
So I'm going to try out some new timing and add a couple of frames of antic here and there. Update soon! -
05 Jan 2009why not model a set of clothes and add some clusters to it to animate the secondary?
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05 Jan 2009That's a great idea, except my knowledge of modeling doesn't extend beyond making primitives. I suppose now is as good a time as ever to figure it out though, I'll give it a shot.
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13 Jan 2009Only thing that stuck out to me so far, was that the "reaching up" pose could be a little more extreme.
His body is fairly symmetrical right now, and his arm is bend, making it look like he's just casually got his hand raised, instead of reaching to the sky for MOAR POWER!!!
I know right now if you raise his arm higher, his upper arm will intersect his face, but rotating his torso so that he's leaning to the right of the screen, and reaching up with his shoulders leaning in that direction too, and his feet asymmetrically planted should help I think
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13 Jan 2009Good call there, I'll play around with those poses a bit and find something with a little more horsepower. Thankfully the rig has scale channels for each part of his body so you can change his proportions, but even after making his head smaller it always seems to be in the way.
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