Durian Sprint: Character Animation Feedback

[Muffa]

Thanks guys! I made some small changes…

Biglines: Made some small changes on curves, but im trying to figure how quartenation works. When i move one axis, others move too. So, its harder to tweak…

effstops: im making more moves, but , i don know if its nescessary, cause durian team say’d that they need only 3-4 seconds.
When you say that its too linear its because the animation do only one thing?

[andresouza86]

Hi guys I did a walkcycle for durian project here the link: http://www.blendswap.com/durian/an_man_walk_cycle-andre_souza/ Ah and the link in vimeo: http://www.vimeo.com/10588781

And I’d like work in a specific shots…I’d like make the person pulling a cart, coming to stop. So Is it possible? And what exactly you guys need?

CC are welcome

[Kiopaa]

@freen

Kiopaa: Nice stuff. I can really tell that he’s injured. The main thing that needs work is the rotation on the hips. At the moment they seem to only be rocking back and forwards. In reality the hips rotate on all 3 axes during a walk. This is an all important detail that is quite often missed, and is the reason why so many walk cycles don’t seem to have weight.
The other thing is the movement of the hands. They seem to be rotating around the body rather than swinging freely. Also, They are hitting their extremes at the same time as the feet, where they should be offset in time, hitting their extremes on the down position, or even the passing pos.

I tried to make the change in my walkcycle. Here is what I got :

DURIAN_Injured man walkcycle - FINAL

Unfortunately, I will have no more time to work on this cycle. I hope you like it !
I uploaded the blendfile on blendswap.com : http://www.blendswap.com/durian/injured-man-walkcycle-2/

Kiopaa

[Brenner]

I figured I’d try and take part in the sprint. I haven’t put my name down for anything yet. I did a beckoning merchant - and another one for fun that I can’t see possibly being used in the background - but I figured I’d post if for fun…

The Merchant

The Daredevil

[ivanweinreb]

Hey guys, thanks for the feedback!!! i was working on the thief and made some adjustments based some of your impressions.

thieffinal0000_0168

[yoyo]

waoooo,
there is a lot of this going on there
I made a try,
Only one character is correctly animated now,
I wish finish the other one before the dead line.

And the rig is awesome it’s a great pleasure to work with

[freen]

Good start, yoyo, but please, no more animated GIFs.

When you finish the next pass, It would be great if you could have it without the camera move and post it on youtube, vimeo etc.

[KrisAster]

yoyo, nice job making the animation look casual!

[ParnoidAndroid]

I know, that the sprint is nearly over, but I started a new animation. Hopefully I will get it done in time.

I used some references I shot with my crappy camera and made some drawings like freen advised.

ParanoidAndroid

[veefwoar]

I have uploaded my durian sprint animation to Blendswap.

You can check it out here if you like I know it’s much longer than necessary but I had fun and learned a lot about the process so it was a worthwhile exercise for me.

Thanks to everyone for crits along the way!

[ParnoidAndroid]

@veefwoar:
thumbs up turned out very naturally. Maybe I would invest the two minutes to fix the hand intersecting the chopper. Non the less great work.

ParanoidAndroid

[DaisukeJPN]

Nice to meet you all.

I made a walk cycles for durian project.

Please check it out.

I uploaded the file which was named “AN_Man_Walk_Cyle_Daisuke_Matsumoto.blend” in blenderswap.com.

I have uploaded it with having made a mistake in spelling.

[GandalfTheGrey]

Hi all,

I’ve worked a bit on my contributions posted above, and I’ve also posted videos on vimeo.

A juggler: http://vimeo.com/10636064 (blend: http://web.student.tuwien.ac.at/~e0325258/files/juggler.blend)
A watchman: http://vimeo.com/10630546 (blend: http://web.student.tuwien.ac.at/~e0325258/files/watchman.blend )

Since the sprint is nearly over, I hope some of you can check it out and give me feedback.

Thanks,
Stefan

[ParnoidAndroid]

@GandalfTheGrey:
The jungler is great.

The watchmen isn’t bad, either, but when he spots sintel his arm bend like roboter arms. Maybe he could call something after sintel.

Small progress:
http://www.youtube.com/user/FortPrefect#p/a/u/0/TDB71vcGQCQ

ParanoidAndroid

[toontje]

Wow, I see that this is going to be epic. Lots of nice animations here. I’ve seen a few that could use a good cleaning up, but in general it looks enjoyable to watch.

One crit though… I sense a tendency to make Ishtar some kind of shady town like Mos Eisley?

[toontje]

@ GandalftheGrey:

Your watchmen’s animation is floaty, weightless. You should use a little more favoring and snapping motions.

[MadSquirrel]

Here is my WIP.
I would like to make a guy browsing at a market stand, so, walking slowly, looking around, picking / droping things on the stand. But I’m not sure I will finish it on time (why do sprints always occurs during my busiest days !? )

At least, I want to show you the “slow walk” walkcycle. I’m not very happy with it, but I’ve been working on it too long, and so it becomes difficult to point the mistakes. I need fresh eyes opinions. :eek:

http://www.vimeo.com/10641554

Thanks

[Jarrhead]

Howsit, a simple piece of a man sitting idly on a box: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39MpNdFwffY

[ParnoidAndroid]

@MadSquirrel:
The stopping before lowering his front foot doesn’t look that natural to me and the way his hip is moving forward doesn’t seem that right to me (maybe the recoil is missing? http://www.idleworm.com/how/anm/02w/walk1.shtml )
I really would like to give a more constructive critisism but it wasn’t for no reason, that I doesn’t took a walkcycle as my animation

Another small update. I know that it doesn’t look great and there are things going wrong, but I don’t know what exactly. Some hints would be great before uploading it to blendswap.

ParanoidAndroid

[chipmasque]

@ParnoidAndroid

I know that it doesn’t look great and there are things going wrong, but I don’t know what exactly.

Some hints:

1. Just a little more time before he reacts to Sintel, the “WTF?!?” time so to speak
2. Skip the right foot (on screen left) shift as he starts to dodge, it looks too “slidy”. Instead, maybe plant his foot a little more to screen left to start with, then have more weight transfer to that foot as he starts the dodge, as an “anticipation.”
3. If Sintel is swinging her arm toward him, the duck/crouch as he dodges is good, but if not, maybe have his head follow his body rather than lead it in this case, sort of “loony tunes” style. This would also prolong the time we can see his face react to her.
4. As he finishes his reaction, maybe skip the right arm moving forward and go right into the left up/right down pose, with perhaps a little more upper body turn to the right (he looks a bit too stiff at the end.)

All just small ideas, it’s looking pretty good even as is.