Week 10 Final Assignment: Final Project

  This week we had to prepare for our final and upon presenting a pre-final project we were working, we had to find the issues that needed fixing.

  My issues with the movie clip of the walk cycle was that, I needed to fix the lighting; the lighting was a bit off and too dark. By fixing that issue, I had to change the color of the front directional lighting that I wanted red and it actually looked more blood orange, I switched it to off white.

  The other problem was that there was no bounce to the walk, which I used my hip controller to give a little bit of a down and up movement to give a more natural walk, and previously I used the pelvic bone to animate the up and down motion which did not work.

Finally, the last problem I had to fix was frame of the video as well as the speed of the walk.  It was too slow because I've used "virtualdub" that I knew could accommodate the .iff batch renders.  Re-batch rendering with  .tiff made the .mov clip used much faster, and using adobe premier made it fast and clear.

Video link. Enjoy!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZx0RFIckwo

Week 9 Assignment: Final Project.

For this assignment, we were to work on our final assignment which is a full walk cycle that involved a nice animation of the foot roll and walk movement, the hands, arms, and some shoulder movement, as well as the head and torso moving to give it some realism or subtle reality for a character walking.  With my first character ever modeled, I've learned that topology plays an important role along side with rigging a character, because you'd be able to see what is going on in your animation.  I learn from mistakes and it is the best way to learn, and that being said I could have downloaded a free 3D model from a website ( which I did) but never used it.  Even though I got a D for my character as a grade for my final, I still went ahead and used it to see what was so bad about it..... and now I know.

here is the link to the clip.

http://youtu.be/NsHo8Ktxybk

Week8 Assignment: Walk Cycle legs & arms.

For this weeks assignment, we had to make our characters do a walk cycle.  In addition to the legs walking, we added the arm movement as well.  Unfortunately the video I created for my walk cycle assignment is not uploading, I don't know why and my apologies.