Can anyone stand another Door's Stuck attempt?

[Biotron2000]

It needs work. This may be the hardest thing I've done to date. I downloaded the "fixed" Shaggy, but I had a lot of problems with the hands slipping and popping, probably due to pulling beyond his arm's reach.

One thing I accomplished here is getting a character off a path and animating it further without disturbing the previous action. Yay!

It needs a lot of work, and it's not even really finished, but here it it:

The Door's Stuck 960KB Quicktime, Sorenson 3.

Comments welcome!

[hypnomike]

I've always got time for another variation on the door's stuck theme!

 

It's looking good so far, you should maybe consider a slight delay before the door opens ( like it springs open after shaggy catapults away) but other than that no useful suggestions from me.

 

One thing I accomplished here is getting a character off a path and animating it further without disturbing the previous action.

 

How did you do it? This seems to cause a lot of problems judging by the number of questions posted.

 

I've not tried it yet so any info will help me later.

 

Thanks and keep posting your progress.

[entity]

Good job Biotron2k,

Keep working on it. Don't for get to "punctuate" the actions he is doing, to seperate the actions... but for a preview it's going good!

[Biotron2000]

One thing I accomplished here is getting a character off a path and animating it further without disturbing the previous action.

 

How did you do it? This seems to cause a lot of problems judging by the number of questions posted.

 

I'm not really sure which thing helped. First, I set the ease on the path to 100 percent at the frame I wanted to stop the walk cycle. I move forward one frame, set the enforcement to 0%, then the model bone popped back to the placed it was originally. I set it back to 100 percent, hit the Key Bone filter, selected the model bone and made a keyframe. Set the enforcement to 0%, this time it stayed.

Next, I created a new chor action and set it to begin on the first frame after the walk cycle. I made sure the chor action was below the walk action in the PWS. I selected the walk action and moved to the last frame of the walk cycle and hit the Key Model filter, selected Shaggy and copied the keyframe. I selected the new chor action, moved to the next frame, pasted the keyframe, and that seemed to do the trick.

Forgive me if I've left something out, I don't have time to open A:M and try it before work.

 

It's looking good so far, you should maybe consider a slight delay before the door opens ( like it springs open after shaggy catapults away) but other than that no useful suggestions from me.

 

That's actually the effect I was going for, but by the time I finally got Shaggy on the floor, I just wanted to render the darn thing and take a look. When it says 6 hours to complete this exercise in TAOA:M, that wasn't an exaggeration. Luckily, I saved a copy of the project at just the point Shaggy setpped off the path and grabbed the doorknob, so Ill be able to pick up from there when I get back to it! Tip: if you have reached a point in a project, chor, model, etc. that you don't want to mess up with tinkering, save it as a different file name and then make the file Read Only. That way you can keep it intact in case you need to go back to that point later.

Thanks for the comments!

[hypnomike]

Thanks for that Patrick, I'll refer to your post when I start combining actions in choreography.

[Biotron2000]

Here's another attempt. I still need to fix the fall (too slow) and other timing issues. Forgive a newbie question, but I'm not in front of my on computer right now: Is there a way (other than lassoing) to select a keyframe so you can slide it around on the timeline? That would make adjusting the timing much easier. Anyway, here it is:

The door's still stuck...

 

Thanks for looking!

Comment, critiques, suggestions, etc. welcome.

[hypnomike]

It's looking alittle smoother now Patrick.

 

If you want to speed the fall up you can delete some frames in the fall sequence.

 

Don't forget to add blinks , they really help bring you character to life. It also helps to turn the head further towards the camera at times so that the viewer gets to see facial expressions as Shaggy puts all that effort in.

 

Hope this helps.

[Biotron2000]

Close to being finished!Here's the latest version.

What do you think?