KenH Posted June 8, 2004 Posted June 8, 2004 Hey! This is a first pass of a little short I'm working on. It's my first real animation and I would appreciate any pointers anyone can give. In particular, I'm having difficult with what to do with the hands. Anyway, let me know what you think. Here's the 900kb file: Baby Blues Quote
Sacman Posted June 8, 2004 Posted June 8, 2004 I have a 7 month old. When he was first starting to sit up. all he ever did with his hands is pat himself on the leg over and over and over and... you get the point. Even now he still pats things. That is just a thought. Other than that he tends to hold his hands together and just twist them around against one another interlockinghis fingers and such. Looks great, Wade Quote
CreativeAustinYankee Posted June 8, 2004 Posted June 8, 2004 The following are just my observations, feel free to ignore them. Looks pretty good, overall, a decently modeled cartoon baby. Nice anticipation with the eyes. The blinks are well timed. His eyebrows seem straight, give them some curvature. I did notice that his head turns seem robotic, perhaps a bit more ease-in/ease-out. Perhaps a little secondary motion with the hair. lengthen the inhale/exhale just a little and/or hold the breath for a beat to emphasize the "boredom sigh". He has a ball to the side, if you stick with the color background that you have, I'd recommend changing the color of the ball to yellow or bright green, something in contrast to make it stand out better. As far as what to do with his hands, perhaps you could give him something to interact with, like the ball. Unsure of the direction you want to take with this, try out a few different camera placements and angles, the one you're using is adequate, but it's hard to tell if it would work well once the other items for the scene are in place. Anyway, good luck with it. Steve P. Quote
KenH Posted June 8, 2004 Author Posted June 8, 2004 Great tips guys! I'm incorporating them as I speak...... This is just going to be a simple animation with the baby and the ball. The ball is the same colour because that's why the baby hasn't seen it yet.....but he will accidentally. I'll have to brush up on how to do the ease in and out now! Quote
KenH Posted June 9, 2004 Author Posted June 9, 2004 I've got it up to 14 seconds! Man animation is slow Please download it and see the changes. I think you might be amused by it.....I am and I made it Obviously, it will all eventually look like the image above. It's ballooned to 4 MB I don't know how...I thought quicktime was compressed. Baby Blues Quote
Pengy Posted June 9, 2004 Posted June 9, 2004 I really like your model..he's cute. It looks like the animation is building in the right way. One crit about textures it looks like he has 2 blue streaks above his eyebrows and the top of the hat appears to have flesh mat on it. Don't know if I'm just seeing things Quote
KenH Posted June 9, 2004 Author Posted June 9, 2004 Thanks! The animation is just in shaded view. When I'm happy with it, I'll do it all like above. Quote
Noel Posted June 9, 2004 Posted June 9, 2004 I'm no animator, but you might want to try twisting his ankles when he shifts his weight, and or and a touch of secondary motion to his legs. my 2cents Looks like it will be a fun piece! Quote
KenH Posted June 9, 2004 Author Posted June 9, 2004 I think you're right. They look abit rigid. Now I'll have to get on my a** to see what happens! Quote
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