My next exercise is a shooting cannon. The goal is to practice Anticipation and Squash and Stretch.
You can download the cannon rig here, and the lighting/rendering setup here. You can download the final animated scene here.
My next exercise is a shooting cannon. The goal is to practice Anticipation and Squash and Stretch.
You can download the cannon rig here, and the lighting/rendering setup here. You can download the final animated scene here.
One more posing exercise. The theme of this one is "balance".
Practicing poses. The goal of this one is to convey "strength". Also to make a pretty render =)
You can download the final scene here. (you will also need a lumen rig and a barbell asset).
Here is the render setup that you can use in your own projects.
Also you can check out this post where I have collected the references I have used for inspiration.
My next 3D animation exercise, a dog run cycle:
My next exercise - sneaking walk cycle:
In this exercise, my goal is to animate a simple jump over the gap:
References:
Making of:
My next exercise - animating a run cycle:
Experimenting with my new rig, created a simple walkcycle animation.
First year Animation Mentor students do an exercise of putting a simple character rig into poses that express various emotions. This is a collection of some great examples for reference and inspiration.
Body dynamics.
Physical strength
Balance
Happiness/Excitement
Devastation
Exhaustion
Boredom
Concern
Pose from real life sketch - go outside, sketch a person in an interesting pose, and then pose character using this sketch as a reference.
This is a collection of ideas for animation exercises, from learning the fundamentals of animation to advanced acting scenes.
Walk against heavy wind.
Example 1
Lift.
Example 1
This is a collection of references for modeling good 3D character topology.
This is my tutorial demonstrating a simple way to model correct topology: