Tuesday, April 29 Everybody's Happy Nowadays

Alreet, we'll take a look at the ball-rig animations and get acquainted with a very cool rig--Lt. Dan. We'll use Lt. Dan to do a walk and a run. If your walk and run are looking good, feel free to use him to do something else. You could combine him with the ball rig or somethin'. Anyhow, we'll look at it all next Tuesday.
Speaking of next Tuesday, high priest Casey Pyke will introduce us to animating a full-body biped rig. Heck, he'll even show us some of the cool quadraped animating he's doing with Trisha Johansen's cyborg-dog rig. Ah, the majesty.

Thursday, April 24--good stuff going on

There's a lecture by very cool visiting artist Roger Shimomura at 4:00 in the Meese Auditorium. Hit it. A show including his work opens at the Schneider Museum tonight.

Be sure to check out Jen Harlow's blog as she's going through the same animation convulsions as you are, though she's in her second year of Maya madness. She has a good bit on different approaches to blocking in 3D animation.

There's a free night of cool silent films over in the Meese Auditorium this weekend. Great stuff for animators--Check 'em out!

Weight. We all like weight. . . and breakdown sheets

1. "How can you tell if someone knows how to animate?"

"WEIGHT."

2. Realistic weight = good.

3. Floaty polygons = bad.

4. Holds = good too.

You can click on the image at left to get a high res gif of our crude breakdown sheet. Print 'em and weep.