Kitty Christmas

Num-mum aged

num mum kiss

3D Final

My laptop died before I could finish what I was doing in class, but I'll finish what I was doing at home and see if I can find a way to put the still images into an animation with one of the programs I have at home and re-upload that.

I ended up not being able to use my original storyline because of its complexity, so I decided to try to save it by having the camera view GIR dancing, then go around the "candyland" landscape with the gum drops kind of jumping up and down like jumping beans until it returns back to GIR.

Edit: The following video is my final.

Final Animation

kittypoof v dragon.m4v

Animation 3 Final BOOYAH

Final

ZERO

ZERO BEHIND THE SCENES

Steam Punk Animation

more

cinema example

In class demonstration

For next week have your final animation storyboard completed. We only have 4 more weeks left in the semester!

Review of material and concepts covered:
Modeling with splines (lathe, extrude, sweep, and loft)
Editing objects in point mode and polygon mode
Setting up a light
Setting up cameras
Rendering as still and as animation
PLA point level animation and Key Framing
Textures
Emitters

5 3D things from primatives

Character Rig video 15

Video 15 cuts out about half way through. I think I figured out what he did though. I believe all he does is creates a control spline for the head pivot.

-create a diamond shape using the linear spline tool to match his shape
-center axis of spline
-axis snap center of spline to head pivot
-move spline up to be under the head along the jawline
-axis snap the axis of the spline to the head pivot
-name the spline "sc_head01"
-parent this under "bn_neck01"
-parent  "bn_head01" under "sc_head01"

My video doesn't have audio, but I hope it helps! Ask me questions if this post isn't clear!

5 Renderings

Sorry this was late.

Character Rig Differences

Here are a few differences/problems I've encountered in the character rig tutorial...

There is no Freeze Transformation in our 11.5 version.

You have to reset your layout every time you open Cinema. There is probably a way around this, but I don't know what it is. For the snapping menu the hot key is "P". For the Structure window just grab the entire Structure drop down menu. I kept having problems with the Axis Snapping not working. Make sure you have both Axis Snapping and 3D Snapping selected.

My video 8 cuts out at the end... I'm assuming he just says to Add Keyframe Selection, and then rambles about the contents of the next video.

The Mirror Tool options in 11.5 look different but most of them are there. All of the foot and the knee control mirrored, but the joints for the knee and thigh and the pole pivot did not. To get these to mirror, I also mirrored the thigh, shin, and ankle under the body. I'm adding a picture for this because I feel like this mirror thing is unclear.

I've just finished video 9. I hope this helps!

5 Renderings

I made the snow cone, GIR, and Pucca head with Blender, but the others were made with Cinema. (I found the Cinema demo version after I made the ones with Blender.)

I finished the bobsled tutorial thing - or as far as I can get without the plug-ins, anyways - but I'm not sure which file type I should export it as.

Homework for October 31st

GREAT WORK ON YOUR FLASH PROJECTS!


Animation One 
Post your five renderings created from primitives in C4D and complete the following tutorial
bobsled tutorial

Advanced Animation


Complete rigging your character

check out
ALEX McLEOD

swordsman's revenge.mov

Midterm Animation

Sorry it fell a bit short.

Faceless

Animation Midterm

god wants to play a game

Animation Midterm

It didn't turn out as long as I had planned for it to be. Some things need some fixing up (Cat spinning around especially), and I forgot to put credits for some things I used at the end of video like I had planned (I'll have to add those in the comments later), but everything else should be there.

animation

Music gets loud!!!

DUE OCTOBER 24th

NO CUPS OF DIRT!!!


-email me with questions or need help with finishing your animations

Animation & Visual Effects Demo Reel

ETSU Digital Media Department

Check out the student demo reels sucka.


CLICK HERE

Axel Tillement

Maximall from Axel Tillement on Vimeo.

SPEK

SPEK from MOONSTA on Vimeo.

Battlesnake - The Cheshire Cat

Battlesnake - The Cheshire Cat from Gus Kemp on Vimeo.

"Do I Have Power" animation for viewing

Do I Have Power - Timber timbre (2011) from Carlos De Carvalho on Vimeo.

Real 3D of the Future

Mediating Mediums - The Digital 3d [Short Version] from Greg Tran on Vimeo.

Summary:
I Movie- is great for trimming and adding some transitions and sounds. There are a collection of video effects that can be added as well.
Use Garage Band to record, trim, and manipulate sound and sound effects for your animation.
After Effects - can be used to create endless high end effects on video as well as fantastic motion graphics
Adobe Flash - a fantastic animation tool for 2-d animation
Create and manipulate artwork for your animation in both Photoshop and Illustrator


I really feel that the animator must have an arsenal of tools and weapons at their disposal to create rich and engaging final products.

Also covered:
Obtain a variety of public domain footage from www.ARCHIVE.org

REMINDER!!!!! Midterm projects are due OCTOBER 24th

Animatic: The Promise

Made up of bases and stick figures. Haha. Decided to make the parts in the beginning, where the girl is talking, Japanese anime style, and then do something my friends and I have dubbed "advanced stick-figures" for the rest of the animation. I'm still learning human anatomy, so I know I would feel the need to spend far more time than available on drawing out the characters if I did it Japanese anime style the whole way through.

Frame Notes:
Scene 1: Title (All notes on frame.)
Scene 2: Thought clouds start to appear on third sentence.
Scene 3: Dream-like music clip plays as view moves from person to biggest cloud and zooms in.
Scene 4: Zoom in on Cat (girl at the window).
Scene 5: (All notes on frame.)
Scene 6: Need to move frame view over so the character is in the middle of the frame. Tree neighs like a horse when she stops moving it.
Scene 7: Cat twitches an ear before speaking. Same background as scene 5.
Scene 8: Same background as scene 6.
Scene 9: Zoom in on Cat's face as she turns. Sparkly eyes. Same background as scene 5.
Scene 10: Same background as scene 6.
Scene 11: Same background as scene 5.
Scene 12: Same background as scene 6.
Scene 13: Both girls start giggling. Background behind Cat's half of the frame includes parts of the curtains and the wall with a picture hanging. Behind Tree's half of the the frame includes a bookshelf with many horse toys.
Scene 14: End (All notes on frame.)
Scene 15: Credits. Words scroll up.

Animated Dexter Series

animatic swordsmen

"God is like a kid" Karma is a B..

Animated Optical Illusions

These are pretty cool...
CLICK HERE

UPDATE 09/19/2011

Topics covered:

-using the bone tool to create a flash puppet
Great TUTORIAL on bone tool here at youtube.com FLASH FOR MORTALS

-using the virtual camera in flash
DOWNLOAD THE CAMERA FILE HERE


Bonus animating JIB JAB style mouth tutorial

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Faceless Animatic

This is my narrative project from 2D, which came about from my visions project. I'm pretty stuck on mind control. I would like to turn the idea into my animation.

http://www.biteycastle.com/biteyWindow.htm

A solid mix of photoshop and other adobe programs.

ASDF

For fun flash animations done fast.

Click here

Lemony Snicket Credits

I love how animation is so popular in credit sequences, and this is one of my favorites.

click here yo

one min flash animation done mostly by onion skining.

here

Blink

twitching buzzard

ready? FIGHT!

mexican jumping bean

What is this I don't even....

In class demo

Topics covered

1. setting up a document
2. brush tool
3. pencil tool
4. properties palate
5. color picker
6. frame by frame
7. tweening
8. motion guide

Fall 2011 Syllabi ::: Bryan Wilkerson

Fall 2011 Syllabus »»»» click here

Final Animation

Martian Dog

FINAL

FINAL PROJECT HERE:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9aLgA-UyfE

cool pokemon animation

final

sorry it was short /:

S.R. My Dog

blah!!!!

final animation

A collection of Student Work from previous years

Dragon Head

his name is couger

http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/2RzbXj/www.dailymotion.com/video/xbol51_parkour-motion-reel_creation

Pure Annoyance

SPAM EVERYONE WITH THIS ANIMATION!!!

Metaball Screen Shots

high quality harry potter animation

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qeN7b35LQYs

In Class Demonstration (camera use)

marble track sketch

doggy

Look at this

http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/2661Xn/psd.tutsplus.com/tutorials/text-effects-tutorials/how-to-create-an-incredible-typographic-illustration-part-1/

http://www.designerslist.info

toon dog tutorial

marble track components

Hair and Particle Emitters!

Needles

Something I created while fooling around in C4D.

UPDATE

From this point on you should be working towards your final 3d animation which will be due on May 4th Wednesday. Although I will be demonstrating on all remaining classes you will have lab time and individual help to create your animations. Important: start with a storyboard. Think about camera shots, interesting points of view, textures, and lighting. You should expect to spend time outside of class to complete this assignment.

LIGHTS/CAMERA/ACTION

Holly CRAP!!!

Watch this, look at, and be amazed!!!!!! CRAZY AWESOME ANIMATION SOFTWARE!!!!

http://www.illusionmage.com/

My pictures

Fruit fly

Kamehameha wave

Dear Agony

Five objects, R. Crabtree