The Next Challenge 2008 Character Animation -Reference-

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Submitted by AntonioVP on January 17, 2008 - 1:09am.

Hello,

This is the preliminary post for the Character Challenge. I'm just putting some links and thoughts into this as I gather some resources for everyone.

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Free Rigs and ideas. http://members.shaw.ca/LightWavetutorials/character_anime.htm (i've posted some links from Shaw. If you like one add it in the comments.

http://features.cgsociety.org/story_custom.php?story_id=1429&page= 12 principles of animation.

Lots to choose from in the LW8 content cd. Some amazing Jonny Gorden rigs in there!

http://www.spinquad.com/forums/showthread.php?t=9836 Nice tut on making Nicer Handles for your Nulls. (Fantastic, everyone should know this one.)

http://www.keithlango.com/wordpress/?page_id=226 This guy knows his stuff....

http://www.artof3d.com/feature.htm Principals of Character animation.

Joint Morphing This looks interesting. Anyone care to comment on this one.

ftp://ftp.newtek.com/multimedia/movies/w3dw/CurveSkelegons.mov This is really neat. Skelegon from scratch using curves.

http://www.garycmartin.com/phoneme_examples.html Great page nice visuals. To animate the mouth.

http://www.rubberbug.com/tutorials.htm Interesting Tuts on character animation. Walk cycle, Serpents (for Paul), dance.

ftp://ftp.newtek.com/pub/LightWave/Tutorials/Vidz/keys_CD.mov Managing keys in your animation.

ftp://ftp.newtek.com/pub/LightWave/Tutorials/Vidz/mmp1.mov Motion Builder anim.

http://puffandlarkin.com/lightwave/tutorials/character_rigging/ Tuts on Rigging.

http://www.newtek-europe.com/uk/support/tutorials/tut6/1.html Rigging Tutorial. Layout

http://www.newtek-europe.com/uk/support/tutorials/tut5/1.html Rigging Tutorial Modler

 

http://www.ta-animation.com/ Ta Plugin Anyone ever use this one?

http://www.newtek.com/lightwave/profiles/SteveAnzovin/index.php Setup Machine Anyone ever use this one?

http://www.thomas4d.com/html/t4d_rigging_tools.html T4D Rigging Tools ANyone Ever USe this? Sounds good.

http://www.stillwaterpictures.com/maestro/ Maestro Anyone Ever use this?

http://www.newtek.com/lightwave/tutorials/animation/2IKBooster/index.php Ikbooster pdf and zip

http://www.newtek.com/lightwave/tutorials/animation/CharRigging/index.php Rigging in lw 8 (what about 9 so far on newtek, no 9 tuts.)

http://www.newtek.com/lightwave/tutorials/animation/smartskinning8/index.html skinning for auto buldges in arms etc

http://www.newtek.com/lightwave/tutorials/animation/rigging/index.html free character rig and setup

http://www.newtek.com/lightwave/tutorials/animation/heeltoe/index.html Rigging with expressions

ftp://ftp.newtek.com/multimedia/movies/w3dw/Endo.mov endomorphs movie tut

http://www.jacobobarreiro.com/jweb/resources/ Super Gramps

http://www.simplylightwave.com/download_pages/object.mhtml?oid=264&catid=29&typeid=4 Mech

http://www.simplylightwave.com/download_pages/object.mhtml?oid=152&catid=28&typeid=4 Afro man

http://www.garagegames.com/index.php?sec=mg&mod=resource&page=view&qid=10098 rigging for Games


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Notice the wolf part of the sandeep youtube, and the attached quad rig.


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This has great wireframe reference. Hmmmmm Maybe we should make a little set like the one's he has?

And now motion mixer 3 tuts here.


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If you know any great Character Tutorials or free rigs. Please add a link as a comment.

Antonio

 

 

 

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Ikboot workflow

Submitted by AntonioVP on January 19, 2008 - 12:57pm.

i grabbed everything I could from that ikbooster site and zipped it.

Go here for it.  Check it out, If you figure out how to use this and find it easy, please enlighten the rest of us noobs.

 Antonio

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Gramps

Submitted by AntonioVP on January 19, 2008 - 12:29pm.

The Gramps object. Already rigged, uses the ccp lscript, (which I could not find.) And done in 2005 or 6. SO This is the old way.

I think After looking at the ikblender... We should look at that again. It seemed like it was an easy thing to animate.


Anyone have a free ikblender rig. Looks like the one you see in the youtube animation is  on that link.  version 3.

Here’s a sample scene to download, this uses Goals in a similar way to traditional IK, demonstrating that both systems can be used in harmony with each other.

Load the scene, Hit Ctrl+b, select the node in the center of the
spear and drag on the RGB numeric values beside it to rotate the spear.

Dirk Petri, has sent some sample scenes, showing his workflow with
notes and examples, and kindly allowed them to be shared with everyone.
Thanks Dirk!

Download Dirk’s IKB scenes

This video is part 3 of 3 showing the use for BoosterLink.

This one goes through some practical examples of set up and normal usage on a character and a mechanical rig:

  • Advanced Wrist Twist
  • Stretchy Limbs
  • Gear Race / Piston / Balloon Linkage

DOWNLOAD NOW 27min. / 21M

 

 

 

 

Gramps rig looks complete but very hard to select anything with out that cck lscript. (i think he's out as a candidate for our challenge. Unless someone figures out how to use him.)

Antonio

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Wow Gleaned some info from the last morph mixer you tube.

Submitted by AntonioVP on January 18, 2008 - 11:55pm.

If you select more than one bone, and rotate lightwave will rotate each one individually.

Using FX.   Additively.  Fingers will curl ifyou grab all the bones and rotate in a finger setup.  etc.  Nice to know.

Antonio 

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Can someone insert the quad rig into an object and get it toWork

Submitted by AntonioVP on January 17, 2008 - 1:42pm.

I think this is a pretty good rig.
Look at the wolf part of the Sandeep youtube demo.
Looks a lot like the quad rig I found.

Antonio

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Which one ?

Submitted by AntonioVP on January 23, 2008 - 10:25am.

The quad rig on the attachment, or this one from proton.

Notice this one has motion builder files.  Nice run cycle for a quad.
How hard would it be to duplicate this on the quad rig? 

Could you duplicate the run cycle on the walkingdog.zip file?

I think this rig will be included in the challenge.  It's not as hard to use as others. (walkingdog.)

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