Fight animation

Nobody · March 21, 2006, 12:24pm

Just a fun animation I did with very basic characters, get it here. avi format 1.3MB.

Thanks to Nozzy for the basis of the rig, I did modify it some what

Hope you enjoy it.

Zazu · March 21, 2006, 1:15pm

Nice…
Hey, why don’t you try to make a sword fight, i’ve never seen one around here.

jedi20111 · March 21, 2006, 7:19pm

That was really cool. Hey can you help me out. How did you move the legs and arms? I know amature but after I make it how do I add like my droid to go over it? so I can make it walk.

rexprime · March 21, 2006, 7:23pm

go into pose mode, movie the armature insert key so on so forth

jedi20111 · March 21, 2006, 7:45pm

How do I make it a movie after geting into post mode?

Nobody · March 22, 2006, 5:15am

How do I make it a movie after geting into post mode?

Hi, I sorry I don’t have the time to explain in great detail here’s a brief outline.

By using the Video sequence editor, on the top header there are 2 pull down menus the one on the left will probably say SCR:2-Model, click that one and select sequence, or just select it from the window type .
From there you can load pre rendered movies, images, audio, effects, etc, just click on ‘Add’.

1:I prefer to work with pre-rendered avi movies, so select ‘Add’ -> ‘Movie’, go to wherever you saved your movie and move it to the required frame.
2:Then do the same with sound effects and music, as far as I know Blender only likes the Wav 16bit format.

For more detail please refer to the Blender documentation and the Blender Wiki

Hope this helps

jedi20111 · March 22, 2006, 6:37am

Thanks but I still dont understand how to gett my droid moving. Here is a picture.tell me what to do next.

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Bean · March 22, 2006, 7:01am

Dear Jedi,

Joining a Model to an Armature is called “Rigging”. There is a really good Tutorial HERE which talks you through modelling a simple Gingerbread Man, creating an Armature, Rigging the Armature to the Model and then making the little guy walk

It’s a fantastic tutorial and I’m sure will help you get your little robot dude walking in no time 8)

Nobody… I have a question myself however… how did you manage to render your Video with Xvid Codec please ??? I only appear to have the options to render a video with AVI RAW or AVI JPG, and can’t find any external tools to create an Xvid video. Can you point me in the right direction please ??

Many thanks!

mzungu · March 22, 2006, 7:28am

You’ll first need to install the Xvid codec (google for compiled versions.) Then get VirtualDub (if you’re on Windblows) and re-encode to Xvid. See my post in this thread:
https://blenderartists.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=520254&highlight=virtualdub#520254

Nobody · March 22, 2006, 7:36am

Gabio has done an excellent workshop here at elYsiun check it out here

I used an external program not sure what OS you use so…for Windows Virtualdub Linux Avidemux , Mac ? This allows you to composite the audio with the movie as the sequencer after mixdown gives you 2 files the .avi or whatever and the wav file.