[Riot Art Contest] - Daniel Marsh
polycounter lvl 6
Sounds fun!
Going to start looking at existing LoL characters and come up with a plan for my work.
Going to start looking at existing LoL characters and come up with a plan for my work.
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This guy is a staple character for the game but I'd like to attempt a different take on him in terms of character animation. In his current state his anims present him as very human-like and upright, however I plan to re-work his pose to see how Wukong would look with more primal, ape-like movements.
I've put together a quick CAT rig in max that i plan to animate with. Pretty simple stuff.:
I've also started looking at some reference videos/footage to get some ideas for the animations I plan to create.
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Coming next, poses and thumbnail sketches!
More Monkey King please.
So i found a spare bit of time the other night to throw some thumbnail sketches down and start plotting out the sort of motion i was going for for my more primal take on Wu Kong (super sketchy stuff)
After this i spent a while experimenting with a walk/run cycle. After playing with different things this is what I have come up with so far:
Welcoming any feedback/crit at this point
Offsetting the hands/feet would really help to break this up.
I love the general idea of the thing however, keep it up.
The main changes I've made:
Feet feel much better, hand feels kind of punchy. Give it a little bit less punch, a little more float.
Keep it up dude.
Then a couple minor tweaks, check the knees and elbows for popping, especially the front ones. Plus the arc of the end of the staff closest to the head, maybe tone down the movement on it a bit too?
Awesome job so far!
Yours looking good and all the best.
Just one thing I noticed: The fist on the ground goes up at almost the same time as the left foot. I would break/offset the timing there maybe a little. Just to remove that almost simultaneous movement. Keep it up man!
@Evanescfan Agreed!
@MiALx I think you;re right, would look better with a slight (even 1 frame) offset as they leave contact with the ground. I'm still not quite happy with the way the fist makes contact either so I'll be tweaking that when I next get time to work on this
One interesting thing that he does a lot is stick his staff into the ground and that isn't utilised by his current ultimate attack. You can see this in his emotes here:
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So here is my first very rough pass of blocking poses trying to get the ideas out of my head and into keyframes!
More to come soon
Anyhoo, I managed to squeeze another hour in tonight after work.
I've started adding some breakdown poses for the first part of the attack. Going for a super stretchy look on the staff to try and tie into the super smeary league of legends aesthetic.
@Andy #2, After looking at my blocking poses again I'd have to agree and here is what I've gone for instead:
I've just noticed a bit of strangeness with the staff at this angle. Will look into that before my next upload.
Things are starting to come together now. Things left to do before submitting:
Left to do:
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It has been a blast and really awesome to see a little community of animators helping one and other out here on polycount. It is something we should aim to continue!
Best of luck everyone, some really good work has been produced for this