sh0265_CPD_meek - Animation

[Michael Cawood - Director]

If this is your first shot please check the Animator's Handbook for tips.

 

sh0265 (10 + 42 + 10 frames including handles)

In shot 260 Death looks over at Cupid (over the top of her glasses). He sits in his chair already firing a beam, lifts to pause before firing another. He's a little frustrated, and crunches up his mouth, looking at Death out of the corner of his eyes. But he also starts out a little afraid of Death so he's trying his best to hide his true feelings from her and making sure to appear meek and under her control. He may even flash a fake smile, and over the course of the shot he starts to become flippant and bored.

The layout file is here:
C:\Devils_Angels_Dating\My Dropbox\027_Animation_CPD_plus\sh0265_CPD_meek

Then when you start to animate save the file in the same folder with your own initials and a higher version number.

Please ask any questions you have in this thread, and post updates here. Make sure videos and images go in the appropriate sections first then post links or code for them in this thread so that we can discuss it. Note that it can be useful to post videos on YouTube, then just copy the code to this forum, as it allows us to use the video in other YouTube playlists. If you do this wait a little while between uploading to YouTube and pasting the code here, if you do it too quickly YouTube won't have made a thumbnail image yet and we get nothing on this site, making it hard to find in our gallery. Try to label entries by the full shot name as well, with decent tags and key words.

We also need one maintained playblast in the Dropbox folder that's always the latest and it's named after the shot (nothing more, and only one video). Again, study the Animator's Handbook for guidelines to avoid repeated nagging in your feedback and keep all the notes focused on the animation.

Good luck.

Click here to jump to the shot in the edit.

[Kevin Brennan]

Ya ill post soon mike.
i did try to go big alright but was thinking i'd probably need to change that, ill simplify. right oh... ill make those changes and post it up.. i had a couple of tech questions but cant remember now.. ill get back to you in a bit.

[Michael Cawood - Director]

Check out this tip about getting videos to post with their thumbnail images:
http://devilsangelsanddating.ning.com/forum/topics/use-old-youtube-...

[Michael Cawood - Director]

Hi Kevin, how's this shot coming along? Any problems?

[Kevin Brennan]

hi mike,

ive updated the dropbox there today. ive been doing an anim test for the last week, should have been intouch, sorry.
im struggling with this scene, i know its only a second or so, i was working on it a couple of days ago and argh.. but leave it with me today and lets see what i can do to improve it, alot i hope, ill post it tommorrow and see what ya think.. if thats ok.

[Michael Cawood - Director]

Of course. But just let us know if for any reason you find you don't have time. We're aiming to be completing animation on the whole project very soon and there's other animators eager to work on shots.

[Kevin Brennan]

ya i understand, for sure.
let me see if i can improve greatly here today, and if its still not coming together right by tomorrow you can of course feel free to give it to someone else..i understand. id just like to give it one last crack first..

[Michael Cawood - Director]

Oh, I'd rather let you have a fair go at it. Looking forward to seeing what you come up with.

[Michael Cawood - Director]

I noticed you posted a playblast. I renamed it to just the shot name so that it automatically replaces the existing file and goes in the edit. Using a different name of any sort just breaks the edit.

I'll wait for you to post, but can you make sure to include the Sphere in the playblast so that it makes sense to the audience? Thanks.

[Michael Cawood - Director]

Could you also playblast the full frame range including the handles? When you change the start frame it changes the edit and there's not enough frames. Thanks.

[Kevin Brennan]

will do

going for lunch now but ill post it this evening..still struggling but starting to get a little grip on it. trying to fix a few more bits and then ill post it. ill include those handles, wasnt sure what the story was with that. i removed them while i was working here so i would get the action in the area without the handles.

[Michael Cawood - Director]

That's fine, but we do ultimately use those handles in a lot of cases so if you can at least extend your curves into the handles that would be appreciated.

[Kevin Brennan]

fairly rough work in progress mike, so any advice is good. his right arm is fk at the moment and finding it hard to control its arcs etc so might switch that back to ik.
kev