birdman cycle.

[Sangfroid]

Havn't done any proper animation in a long while. Felt good to sit down and just work on somthing. I'm soooo bloody sick of 3d it's killing me ;_;. I'm a bloody 2d animator i dunno how the hell i ended up on this 3d film. Anyway like i said i'm out of practice but feels good to be learning again :D.

*update*. At the time i had ppl asking for a cleaned up verssion of this, I figgured it woul dbe good to have somthing done for portfolio work so I went throughit last night and night before.

Havn't put a shadow layer in yet but I do intent to at some point.

http://www.nanokostudios.com/uploads/birdman%20walk(inbetweened_cleanup)2.swf

http://www.nanokostudios.com/uploads/birdman%20walk(inbetweened).swf

[KOTK]

Hot damn!...

That's awesome stuff there Sang. I love that character.

Hmm, 3D movie...? any screens?

[-nelson-]

ah i can see it at its correct framerate! it looks amazing!i love the pause u put into the legs and feet instead of constant regress.

[Terro]

Wow, Sang. That looks sick as hell (in a good sense) I love the natural flow to his walk cycle. He reminds me of those old school executioners. Great work.

[Lion_O]

Wow Sangfroid that look beutiful. Luv it i'm blown away by it simplicity and it's complexity at the same time. What 3d film r u working on if u don't mind me asking?? :)

[toukenjen]

I love the motion in the head piece thing! *stares at it forever*

[NOOB!]

oh sweet u inbetweened it,u gunna clean up and colour now?

i don't have any crits!

[elephant]

Nice. I really dig the design and the fluid motion of his hair (or whatever it may be).

Now, how about some clean-up and colour? :cool:

[Walker]

well i'll be dipped. seeing this inbetweened truly is sweet. Great stuff dude. :D

[Monsieur Rat]

Wow, now i'm gunna sounds like a real newb, but what exactly is inbetweening? Heh, sorry, but your all talking about it, and now i want to know, because it seems as though it would be useful.

[BigNinjaPimp]

Its filling in the frames between keyframes.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inbetween

edit: the cycle looks very good btw.

[NOOB!]

someone go and add that to our wiki :Blahblahb

[Monsieur Rat]

Yeah, sorry Sangfroid, i totally snubbed ya there. Great cycle.

So then basically just animating any cycle would be inbetweened really, wouldn't it? Like if i animated a guy spinnign in a circle, then anything between his start of facing forward, and his end of facing forward would essentially be inbetweened.

[NOOB!]

everytime i watch this i get a visual ejaculations!! more man! mooooooore!

[Sangfroid]

ahh I went away just after i put this up so i just saw the replies now. Thanks for the vote of confidence everyone!

Liono> I'm working on a student film called momento Mori. I think we're planning on putting up a production blog soon so i'll put up a link if we do.

Noob> I want to atempt cleanup and colour but it's a question of finding the time right now >.<. Im still realy bad at cleanup too, must....get...better.

[Lion_O]

Definitly put up the link Sangfroid, i really looking forward to seeing what u guys have in the works. :D

Monsieur not to confuse u but. U have ur keys those usually r ur poses where one action starts and stops. u then have ur breakdown keys. These r to show ur line of action and the curve u intend to use. Then u have ur anticipation keys. These help set up the eyes to see the action to come. Then the overlap keys. To helps show mass and force. Then inbetween all these keys r ur inbetweens....ok i hope i didn't confuse u.

[Monsieur Rat]

i got it, dun worry lion o :p.. i did some reading up

[Sangfroid]

*update*,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

http://www.nanokostudios.com/uploads/birdman%20walk(inbetweened_cleanup)2.swf

[NOOB!]

damn that colour version is great,nice update!!!

[Terro]

Absolutely Fluid. Two Thumbs up.

[NOOB!]

the more i watch it,the more i say u need to keep practicing on that clean up:p i'm seein loads of flopage all round,can we see it without the ghosting effect???

[elephant]

http://www.nanokostudios.com/uploads/birdman%20walk(inbetweened_cleanup)2.swf
I looooveeeee.

[Comlock]

This is absolutly awesome Sangfroid!
love the way you drw the arms troughout the cycle.
The whole thing looks realy nice and fluid.

If I had to come with some crits:

his left leg doesent seem to lift as much up when it goes towards the camera as his right one. It almost slides on the ground instead

In on one frame, the anklebone (or whatever you call it in english^^) goes realy high up. It kinda makes it look like loose skin that is flopping like a secondary animation addon instead of solid bone mass.

other than that, it looks realy amazing.
Good job! I kinda want to make something similar myself now^^
realy inspiring

[songspinner]

Spiffy! I dig the solidity of it all, especially those arms and hands :o

[Sangfroid]

thanks for hte comments / feedback everyone <3.

Camlock> Yea you hit the nail on the head, thanks for the feedback.

[jackhalfaprayer]

bad. ass.

to add to comlock's crit there's a bit of poppin' or wobble in the contour of the arm on our left. near the wrist.

I like the trailing effect as well.