Thom gets some exercise

[rossk]

Usually before I mess around with things, I like to fully understand how things work... well, after awhile I finally decided to jump in and just mess with things in AM.

I learned a lot from the experience so far, and it has been a ton of fun, so I hope to continue in the future.

 

Anyway, here is a short animation of Thom doing some sort of umm... exercise or something. (more like a very crappy gymnast's routine). It didn't really start out with a plan any more specific than to Animate, so any storyline you think you might see... is an illusion.

 

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

 

Thanks,

--Ross K.

 

 

EDIT: Apparently it is possible to leave the subtitle empty... I'll remember that for the future.

exercise_a.mov

[Rodney]

You are on your way to great things Ross.

 

Keep on experimenting. As you said... that's the fun part.

[Dhar]

I agree.

 

I can only study and read posts so much. I finally had to make the plunge and basically picked a song and started animating A:M's characters to perform the song. It's an excercise in lip-sync, decals, lighting, showing emotions, animating etc... It's gonna be like a music video, very involved, over 3 and a half minutes long, but hey, I figured I have to start somewhere. I only wish I had more time. In the mean time, I'm learning by the tons

[Aminator]

Nice experiment. If you want to take it further, here are some ideas:

 

On the first step:

- anticipate, at least a little, e.g. bending the knees a bit

- the upper body shouldn't be frozen - e.g. the arms might swing to our left by momentum; the hips, torso, and head should lean to adjust balance

 

On the one-leg balance:

- tilt the neck/head to keep it balanced over the foot (heads are heavy!)

 

For most of the second half, the body is doing a slow, steady droop. It's called "floating" - unrealistic, computery-perfect motion and something we have to constantly watch for and fix.