jumping on a box and jumping off again

[robcat2075]

I've been trying to animate something like this in 2D, so i made this little study in A:M to better understand the timing and poses.

 

I've written some notes on it so you can see some of my reasoning in working thru it.

 

X = extreme poses

 

B = breakdown poses. These are added after the extremes to add overlap between poses or to make arcs better

 

stuff in green is extra polishing things

 

jumpnotes.mov

[Rodney]

Nice one Robert!

I was especially pleased to see the inclusion of your 'stretch to ground' frame accenting contact with the ground.

Thats such an important frame as it allows the moment of contact to properly read during animation.

[TheSpleen]

I like the upper body action on landing.

[itsjustme]

Great stuff, Robert! Thanks for posting this.

[steve392]

Thats interesting and informative Robert ,Will you be animating the arms

[agep]

Very nice!

[Zaryin]

Wow, nice animation there. I am still trying to figure out how to rig, haha.

[kwhitaker]

this, is a good reference tool as to how to make a mode do good jump, nicely done

[Animus]

Nicely done, it gives very good reference, Thank you!

 

Michel

[robcat2075]

thanks!

 

 

Will you be animating the arms

 

Not on this one, I have a hard time just drawing legs consistently.

[steve392]

Ha never thought about that .I would think drawing what you have allready would be a knightmare

[robcat2075]

I would think drawing what you have allready would be a knightmare

 

Here;s what the "rough" looks like. Lotsa work to do.

 

jumprough.mov

[steve392]

hehe thats dam good ,I think I like this techneek,it gives a differant dimension

[robcat2075]

You can see the finished test now on my 2D blog.

[Rodney]

Very nice Robert. Well done.

That 2D thing is really starting to work for you!

[steve392]

Thats graet ,it reminds me of a sorta gelly bean charector .Would make a good story ,but a lotalota work

[edlundart]

Very interesting post, thanks. Your notes are instructive.

[pixelplucker]

That is really well done. There is a 2d animation package I used in the past called Moho, now it's called Anime. The drawing tools are kinda funky but actually work much like the splines here or you can import illustrator files. You can also animate bitmaps. It has rigging much like this also.

 

Fun little program but I think they cranked up the cost on it.

[animation man hi]

Do you use Flash

[robcat2075]

Do you use Flash

 

For the 2D? I've been using something called "Toonboom Studio" and "Plastic Animation Paper" (just the free version). Neither is ideal and either has things I wish the other had.

[jimd]

as always very cool

is Ballie an original design ?

 

j

[pixelplucker]

Do you use Flash

 

I don't use flash but Anime does make a nice swf file. I did a few animations using it.

[nimblepix]

Rob, do you think you're headed

in the Jason Ryan type animation pipeline?

That is, working out the animation with 2D first,

then moving on to 3D?

 

The Walt Stanchfield books

are inspiring me to go in that direction.