Animation tips – Animate like a Pixar Pro

Sounds easy 🙂

http://www.creativebloq.com/animation/animate-pixar-pro-9134381

Nicely done minecraft

Not really into Minecraft myself, but my daughter loves anything to do with it. She showed me these fan based animations the other day & I’ve got to admit, they’re really nicely done. Some very nice touches in there as well.

Team Wizard

Great mix of 2d & 3d.

http://onanimation.com/2014/01/25/team-wizard/

Nice breakdown video as well.

Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs 2 – Chester V Featurette with Commentary by Peter Nash

 

Activision Real Time Tech Demo

*SHHHHHHHH!  Nobody tell Robert Zemeckis ok??*

AMAZON GAMES

Amazon games ??

Wow, I think I’ve seen it all now.  Are Tesco next ?

Banner Saga Animation Process

Nice post on the 2D animation process for Banner Saga. I haven’t checked it out yet but I’ll put it on the wishlist!

http://stoicstudio.com/animation-process/

http://store.steampowered.com/app/237990/

 

 

Flexible Muscle-Based Locomotion for Bipedal Creatures

Saw Mauro posted this on Facebook

I like it when they fall over

Quick Question about rigs

Hey all, in my world of freelancing for indies, I’m seeing a lot of discussion about using MayaLT because its only 50 quid a month.

Unfortunately it doesn’t support a lot of stuff, including Set Driven Key, expressions, splineIK solver etc. So basically. pretty much all rigs we know and love won’t work, neither will auto riggers.

Ofcourse theres workarounds etc, could build an LT rig with just the features they support, although I’ve not tried this.

My question is, has anyone animated with the maya built in HumanIK rig? Do they like it?

I’m just hearing from some non-animator folk that they think MayaLT, despite its limitations is enough for game dev, and, by extension, humanIK is fine, but I’ve not used it.

Cinematography in the incredibles (part 1 of 3)

Great blog if you have a moment to read it…

http://floobynooby.blogspot.co.uk/2013/12/the-cinematography-of-incredibles-part-1.html