Animate: Lesson 10
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Animate: Lip Syncing part 2
In this session, we edit the movements of the character, However I couldn't get the tongue and brows to move as they were, for some reason, locked and would not be unlocked, this error came up: // Error: file: C:/Program Files/Autodesk/Maya2018/scripts/startup/channelBoxCommand.mel line 507: setAttr: The attribute 'generi_brow03_trigger.translateX' is from a referenced file, and cannot be unlocked. // so I focused on getting the rest of the body to move.
Animate: Features
for this lesson of animate we added features to our balls, and try how how the movement and speed affected these features so how legs would work or a tail and so on.
Animate: Weight and Bouncing
In today's Animate lesson, we learnt how weight affects different things objects and used what we learnt last week to help with this. we used different sided objects like boiling balls, ping pong balls, tennis balls, and how the weight affects the object when it hits a surface. For this ball, I found it the easiest to do as ping pong get faster as they hit a surface. so as the ball got faster I used used less frames in each bounce. This ball shows how weight effects an object when it hits a surfaces. these cause the ball to get squished and stenches when it bounces. For my ball, It should be more fastest in the middle so I should have less frames and be more spread out. For the boiling ball one, It ended up being too fast at the end and the second jump isn't quite right. I ended up not changing it as could move any of my frames without losing some of my shapes. I also think my jumps should be slower so I should have added more frames....
Animate:Timing, Spacing and Pendulums
Today we practised using coin shaped shapes how to do different timings and spacing to make the animation appear faster or slower. For this coin, it is evenly spread and close together to create a nice even line which is going at a consistent speed. Whereas this one has a faster speed compared to the first even tho they both start and finish at the same time. This is because the spacing of the two is different. in the first one, each frame is placed evenly and consistently, so there are no gaps between each frame. Whereas the second one has fewer frames in the centre, which makes it appear faster, even tho they have the same number of frames and start and finish at the same time. This allows me to see the difference between timing and spacing, and what I can do with it. The same can be said for the next two pendulums. Both start and finish at the same time and yet have different speeds. This is all due to the spacing of each frame. ...