[Riot Art Contest] - Snochy

Snochy

This is the WIP thread for my animation.

*Edited 12/19/2014

Final Render



Concept by Chris Battles: "The Beast" from Samurai Jack

https://www.flickr.com/photos/chrisbattle/2559441496/in/photostream/

3D Model done by Adam Brooks:



Rigging and Animation Zachary Thorpe(Me)

http://youtu.be/HViv8jCsAb8

Snochy

After looking for some ideas for this contest, a friend of mine suggested using this model. I think it would be fun to do. It wasn't rigged when i got it so I have to do that step before I can animate it



*Concept by Chris Battle
*Modeling by Adam Brooks

Snochy

After finishing a rig i did a test animation to keep sure everything was going to work. Here is a basic run cycle for the spider.

monster

That's a cool model! You can do some really interesting stuff with that spider. When I do spider walks I offset each leg so that it gives it a creepy / scary look:

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/2904948/Temp/LoLContest/spiderWalk01.gif

Snochy

Here is another update on some more run cycles I tried to use.

Run B:


Run C:


Let me know if anyone has any more ideas they might think that are cool or interesting for my character.

Evanescfan

I fancy "C" more... it just feels a bit symmetrical for a spider cycle... do you want it to be a spider cycle? coz I'm reminded with the robot from "The Incredibles"

Snochy

Yes, it's a spider like thing. I thought of the spider was from incredibles. But I looked at the concept and found out it is from samurai jack's season 2. The monster called "The beast". I based the C walk cycle off the cycle from the episode.

Snochy

And here is a few more options with the front legs up

Run


Run E:


This is more like the cycle from the felhunters from warcraft. Or anything with pincers really.

Kevmm47

maybe try something like this?

icontak

Kevmm47 wrote: »

maybe try something like this?

Oh man that's awesome reference!

Evanescfan

^ I like that!

Andyc

Hi Snochy!

I think you should try and keep this simple. Doing the octopus thing would be totally awesome if you can pull it off. But i think you can still play around with the whole spider walk. Your first few attempts were a good start. However, look into offsetting the timing of the legs some. At the moment each pair of legs are moving at the same time so it seems a little weird. I haven't actually animated anything with 8 legs but i would definitely start by studying some spider reference.

Keep at it mate!

Snochy

Thanks for the feedback. I am going to look into Richard William'a spider animations from his survival guide and see if I can get down the leg offset. I have already tried the octopus a few times so once those are at a presentable stage ill post them.

Snochy

I was able to spend some time and get another go at my walk cycle.



I gave what Kevmm47 suggested a try. Wasn't able to get it to look right. Ill keep working with it but this is what i got so far.

Evanescfan

Oh this looks good!

Can you bounce the main body? or will that change the foot steps? I'm not sure how the rig works

Snochy

I tried the bounce and it was looking odd, but maybe that was just me. I'll add back in a bounce and see what you all think.

Evanescfan

not necessarily a "bounce", more of a "float", almost like a secondary animation for the legs

Snochy

Did some work on the ultimate move for my spider:

Just a simple block animation to see if the ultimate move would work and to plan out the timing and spacing of the animation.

Also made some small tweaks to the walk cycle:

Snochy

Made an updated version of the ultimate



Kind of short ranged :P

Snochy

Made my 3d render of him doing his ultimate attack.



Also compiled the different camera angles into a video. Too long to make a legit gif for it so here is the link.

[ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HViv8jCsAb8"]Compiled Video[/ame]