My anim reel!
I have been getting alot of great support here for my DragonWeaver cartoon im creating..
so here is my reel so u can see what i can do. These are all made for games, so im forced to come in and out of poses, and stuck to certain timing on things... i cant wait to show what i really can do with my cartoon. Its Mp4, and is 19 megs. 3 min long i think.
http://www.artofbrad.com/images/artwork/CantShow/BradM_DKS_X1.mp4
so here is my reel so u can see what i can do. These are all made for games, so im forced to come in and out of poses, and stuck to certain timing on things... i cant wait to show what i really can do with my cartoon. Its Mp4, and is 19 megs. 3 min long i think.
http://www.artofbrad.com/images/artwork/CantShow/BradM_DKS_X1.mp4
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I just wanna say fantastic work on Darksiders, it's my favourite game for sure from the last 6 months or so. One thing I loved about the animation is the fact that the weight of the attacks and the weapons are believable, something I wouldn't have expected from a dude hacking and slashing at monsters so huuge.
Must been a real treat to animate those guys.
Bookmarked for inspiration.
I get the impression from watching it that you're not too used to going back into poses. Every animation where the guy ends up back in his standard pose at the end looks very mechanical in its last few seconds. It's really best to settle the characters more, if you snap back into poses like that the seam between animations will be very very obvious to the player and it breaks the illusion every time.
The other problem is that I feel the reel is too long considering a lot of the pieces are very similar to each other. Personally, I would cut it down to a little over a minute, and just include the very best. Also, if there was any way for you to get better footage of the in game fight between the two winged creatures that would great.
But yeah, dispite that stuff, and really the pose transition is the only technical thing that I really feel stands out, great work
My point is that the ways he is transitioning his characters back to their default poses is often unnatural, and I feel it is something he should work on. Please don't get in the way of valid crits, obviously Brad's animation skills are solid, I assume he's asking for crits on his reel, not just to have praise heaped on him.
James - i should of put a disclaimer. All of our games have a blend system back to pose....i hate it...so the frame after the action is done is when we stop working on the animation and the game will blend it back. I usually just blend it back as well in the anim bc my OCD wont let me just stop after the last frame of the action...I would TOTALLY have the character settle if that part of the anim would be useable...BUT GREAT GREAT crit and i would URGE ANYONE to make sure they are doing that. I also should of called it animation compilation. My true demo reel is about 30 seconds. Has the basics...a fight, a run, a walk, general acting. thats it. BUT AGAIN, id urge all animation reels to stay at around 45 secoonds-minute max. Thanks for the compliments as well big J!
Ill be posting VERY RECENT stuff soon!