Character Animation 1

This blog post is dedicated to the projects that I have been working on for my Character Animation 1 Class at Full Sail University.

In the first project we explored a basic walk with a leg rig called eggy. 

here is a playblast from the final project turn-in.



For the second project we were tasked with creating a series of strong poses that would suggest a specific emotion. In this video you will see each pose one after another all while in a silhouette format.



For the third project the stakes were raised and we were given a fully rigged character.
This walk was still more on the basic side of things but with having to move the arms, head, body etc... This project became a little more intricate. A turn around was also required but this time we had the articulate the character acting towards the end.

Advance rigging and shot finishing

For this section of my blog I wanted to cover some more advanced full body rigging.
This past month or so I've been developing a rig that has sudo muscle systems using nDynamics in maya. For the stomach and pecks I created a dynamic system that manipulates the geometry to get a realistic "jiggle" to emulate the way skin might slide across the muscles.

This rig also has a fairly basic joint based facial rig with SDK's that control the emotions and eye blink also the nose and ears have abilities to be animated.




Here is a playblast from one of the final shots. Below is an image of some added fur detail that was also attached to a hair system letting the fur be manipulated by dynamics.