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Saturday, April 26, 2008

Critique - Box lift









Hey,

looking much better! You're general timing is pretty good. A few notes as you go into blocking +.

Opening the door starts off well, but then after x37 it gets too fast. If you're going for a heavy door, that's not it, you have to slow it down by 50%.
It's good how he immediately goes into the box grab, but then you have a long pause around 78 where he doesn't do anything. Not that he has to move around all the time, but it's like he freezes for a moment.
The box pull towards him ends too quickly and it's also too fast. You mentioned that the box wasn't that heavy, so initially I thought the speed is almost ok, but later, when he lifts the box, it looks really heavy. So I would go with a slower pull towards him (and go for a heavy box).
After the lift the animation gets a bit too slow and floaty, after around x208.
You also need to really sell how he's holding the box up with his right leg (if that's what's going on). Right now it looks more like he's holding the box with one hand and it floats up around x235 and later.
The door closing could also be slowed down a tiny bit at the beginning. So it takes some strength to get it going and then it can fall down.

But overall much better, you got rid of that slow motion, lost in space type of feel. :)

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Friday, April 25, 2008

Human



- found @ haha.nu

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Tuesday, April 22, 2008

Animation Food by Cameron Fielding

This sounds like a really cool tool. Head over to "Flip" to learn more about it. Here a snippet:

Over the last few weeks or so at work, I've been building a little tool that will just throw me random quotes, ideas, little nuggets of info, tips tricks, checks etc right there in a little maya window. So when I'm animating, particularly on the acting shot I'm doing at home, I have this little thing open and I click it once in a while and get some pure gold advice to keep me thinking, give me new ideas, or just inspire me to think about what I'm doing in a different way.

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Monday, April 21, 2008

John Nevarez' awesome site recommendations

Every now and then I check out John Nevarez' site and as always you're given a ton of really inspiring sites to go through. Check out his site if you haven't already. Some of the blogs don't have the "older posts" options, so you have to go through their archives. Here are some of my favorites:

Leighton Hickman Art:








Jaclyn Favro Portfolio:



... on Mars:






Fablog:









Erik D. Martin:









Turley Sketch:









Ev's Place:









A Little Golden Blog:







Spudvision:




Palindrom:









Last Travel Art - The Artwork of Marco Hasmann:






Sushixav Blog:










Sara Pichelli:








alaykssblog:





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