How to Get Ahead in Character Animation

While I’m not sure how many python programmers show up here check out the BlODEd thread in the python area for an interesting look at physics animations.

currently there is no user friendly way to use it but we’re working on it.

MacBlender

toontje · March 17, 2005, 11:20am

www.keithlango.com

tedi · April 13, 2005, 4:01am

http://www.mesmer.com/public/filebankreader.php?in=306

some techniques outlined here (that’s a XSI book) are also transferrable to blender, e.g animating/deforming via spline, general character sets etc.

just swap Y and Z.

yfkar · July 26, 2005, 6:40am

Nice links. Looking at the cvs, the current animation refactoring is going to make animating in Blender a lot more easier and powerful.

Kal_Torak · July 28, 2005, 6:47am

Sounds like Blender is fast overtaking the the commercial 3D packages in features etc. I love that

Enriq766 · November 22, 2005, 11:54pm

I hope to write my experice thus far working on The Crosswalk movie. Maybe it will help or inspire others to follow my foot steps.

RBackman · December 28, 2005, 11:45pm

hey check this thread. I uploaded a new rig that any animators should take a look at.

https://blenderartists.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=57478

Cessen · February 5, 2006, 11:57am

Hee hee. I’m taking animation classes from Tony White, the guy who wrote that last book, “The Animator’s Workbook”. Anyway…

Muybridge’s books are invaluable for animation reference:

The Human Figure in Motion
Animals in Motion

Or the complete three-volume set of his work:
Muybridge’s Complete Human and Animal Locomotion: New Volume 1 (Reprint of original volumes 1-4)
Muybridge’s Complete Human and Animal Locomotion: New Volume 2 (Reprint of original volumes 5-8)
Muybridge’s Complete Human and Animal Locomotion: New Volume 3 (Reprint of original volumes 9-11)

They’re old (late 1800’s/early 1900’s) but they’re still 100% relevant and useful.

applegrew · February 11, 2006, 1:39pm

http://www.comet-cartoons.com/toons/3ddocs/charanim/ was 404

Nobody · March 6, 2006, 9:39am

This site gives a break down of martial arts moves I found it helpful i hope you will to.

Clean3D · May 2, 2006, 12:34pm

Since applegrew seemed to have trouble, the link to all of comet-cartoons’ tutorials is here.

I’ve also found a really great list of animation tutorials and resources:
http://www.carlosbaena.com/anim_material.html

Edit: Another site: http://www.navone.org/HTML/Links_3D.htm

The_Uncyclomaniac · August 7, 2006, 4:09pm

Go to the Blender wiki under the blender summer of documentation there is a new animation tutorial that will be replacing gus:eek:

Here is the link:
http://mediawiki.blender.org/index.php/BSoD/Introduction_to_Character_Animation

IT helped me a lot.

martinellison · September 1, 2006, 9:40pm

http://www.10secondclub.org/ does not work; neither does http://www.keithlango.com/popThru/popThru.html.

toontje · October 16, 2006, 12:07pm

Yep! Like the title says, so head over http://www.keithlango.com/wordpress/?page_id=281

About the other tutorials not working, his website has been redisgned since. So maybe the other tutorials are somewhere else on his website.

I’ve downloaded/ payed for one of his tutorials. I must say if you have the cash to spare and you are serious about animating, then you SHOULD subscribe to his VTS (or buy individual chapters). Excellent tutorials!