My last animation was done in a day, and it was the one I spent the least amount of time on and yet I think its my favorite and came out the best?? Its one of those projects where it comes out exactly as you envisioned and planned it. I used the texturizer on illustrator …
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CDP: Soft body
I followed this tutorial for my soft body , and it turned out okay… Looks a lot better than my skatepark, but I had more time for this and kinda gave up on the other one to be honest. I still feel like I really struggle with cinema. I work very slowly and I feel …
Squirrel Haiku process
Pretty much half of this animation is done, I might still tweak camera movements, but I still need to add the next 2 frames and need to make a plan for the jump cycle. I’ll see. It was fun to play around with the camera and see what kind of transitions I can come up …
Parallaxing my backgrounds
A good tutorial finally helped me understand paralleling backgrounds and how the camera tool works. For my winter animation I duplicated a lot of the backgounds to make it longer so I could pan to the side a lot. That illustrator problem where only the visible layer on the dartboard is exported couldn’t-t be solved. …
Walk cycle failures
I tried the puppet pin tool. Did not end well, because each leg would distort the one next to it when I made movements. Then, Duik. The thing is Duik would work well if I had a lot of time to put into it WHICH I DONT so, I will make a plan for my …
CDP: C4D Dynamics
Today we learned about soft bodies and rigid bodies. Essentially a collider body cannot have other shapes merge or fall through it as a soft body does, instead other shapes collide against it as the name suggests. We also learned about lights, and the different types we can use such as spotlight, or a plane …
CDP: Splines suck
Just making the ramp almost made me cry, and now it just keeps getting better. I tried changing the axis, I ticked tangential, moved the spline back to get my board in the right position….but it still just stays horizontal and doesn’t move along the spline path as it should. Apparently theres a cobra snake …
2nd animation backgrounds process
Wolf design process
My wolf is done yeet Here are some process pictures: My reference pooch
Winter animation assets
I’m working on my 2nd animation assets, now I just need to make my wolf, and background of hills and mountains.
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