What are you working on Animators? 2017!

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LeeMeredith

Happy new year! I'm working on a small scene with this awesome rig by Kiel Figgins. At the minute he walks but eventually he'll stop, scratch himself, sniff his finger, look around then I might have him press his headset and have his trackpad come down and act as a teleporter not sure yet. 
https://youtu.be/BVZ63VY35C0

Danbee360

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2Afp3brK2o

colbludedkila

This is  a WIP for the intro of a game that I'm making! I own the rights to all of the characters shown.
I also modeled, rigged, and animated all the characters.

<iframe src="https://player.vimeo.com/video/197928756" width="640" height="340" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen></iframe>

<p><a href="">Zippy the Squirrel Intro</a> from <a href="https://vimeo.com/user28618228">Terrence Williamson</a> on <a href="https://vimeo.com">Vimeo</a>.</p>

Hito

more polish and expanding another earlier animation... and a dozen tweaks later
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtH0HgzGDQs

EVernier

I haven't posted in a while. I've been working on a creature animation using one of @KielFiggins rigs.

Hito

something for the weekend
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6juN29slaAY

FlyffyQuaternion

I'm nooby animator so this is some of my stuff in new 2017
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCa_0Y9tYFI

Blond

FlyffyQuaternion said:

I'm nooby animator so this is some of my stuff in new 2017

Amazing! SO nice to see another Blender user doing this well int software! Did oyu rig the character too?

Hawt Koffee

Quick rendering test I did in photoshop, nothing too complex, just tying down style.

Hito

earlier creature exercise evolved a little more.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXQ5sIpsEwo

ReedSheep

hi all, this Practice Shot, I tested a rig for my project student : Lyna's Guardian. Critics are more than welcome !

_adamturnbull

I recently made Deadpool do a thing..

leltono

This is my demo reel of my progression so far. I've been animating in 3ds for less than 3 months so hope you enjoy ^^
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCauTN889KQ&amp;lc=z12zs5mogwbawf2ft22pv1bpguizglbcc

antonny08

Hi, I'm practicing new combos of attacks, your criticisms would be very usefu. Thank you so much.

Combo 1 : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9liA5_IZ84
Combo 2 : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYLCIJIdkGA&nbsp;

AnimatedStruggle

@antonny08
Looks good so far! Just be careful with how your combos end so abruptly. Try adding some slow in and slow out (or ease) to those motions toward the end. The quick stops are a bit jarring, so by easing those out, it'll help show inertia and weight, and overall make the movements feel more natural. Overall, I like where this is going! 

Keyle

New to this forum !
My latest animation with Kayla/Kyle rig. Hope you enjoy.

Hito

very cool Keyle! Really like the twirl around bit @ 0:03
@antonny08, really need to liven up the feet, at the moment they are attached to rails, moving only forward. Check out Ric Lico or Heron Prior's attack combos on Vimeo and study how the feet shift and adjust often.

I'm having domestic dispute with MotionBuilder
https://syncsketch.com/sketch/128840#146187

_adamturnbull

Just playing around with the Conan rig (by Truong). Quick run cycle!

Arturow

Still working the "Larger than life" challenge lol , finished the first pass on shot 5 just 2 more to go! We finish animation this month in the movie I'm currently working so I will finish it very soon crunch time is no joke https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0DK2CwvCG8

RKirtlink

Here's another piece I'm working on for my demo reel. Loving the Body Mechanics rigs!

colbludedkila

So I'm an indie developer guys, and this is the trailer for a game that I'm working on.

Follow Icuzo LLC on Facebook for updates!
https://www.facebook.com/icuzo2017/

<iframe src="https://player.vimeo.com/video/198779338" width="640" height="340" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen></iframe> <p><a href="">Zippy the Squirrel(C)</a> from <a href="https://vimeo.com/user28618228">Terrence Williamson</a> on <a href="https://vimeo.com">Vimeo</a>.</p>

Sonny

WIP Update on a little loop I'm working on. Still pretty rough, but excited to show others.

ConnyN

I really like that animation Sonny. He slides a little bit when he's trying to get up though but I'm sure you caught that when splining this. Really effective impact when he spins like that in the beginning. Really liking that.

Hito

Not terribly exciting, but good to have
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJwydSnixrk

aesir

aesir

One more little thing I'm playing with

Sonny

Recent update from this morning that I forgot to share hrere. I've spent an unusually long time on the blockout of this animation, and I apologize there isn't massive differences in stuff I upload. I'm just really trying to perfect these poses and make sure I have enough information and the correct information before turning on auto curves and polishing it up.

@ConnyN  - Thank you . I have fixed the sliding, but in turn have created some problem areas in the beginning where he's missing an inbetween, as well as it being a little bit too fast in the first 20 frames or so. Hoping to be done with blockout some time early next week and  into auto curves and polish by the end of the week and into the weekend. Appreciate your feedback Conny, thank you. 

OsamaMughal

Hi everyone I just joinned Polycount.
This is one of my latest Animation work of 2017, soon i will update me showreel in a week or two.
Please do watch my previous Animation Showreel aswell Thanks :-)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wUPoCooI70

OsamaMughal

Parkour Animation

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ts-s6nwWXDc

KyleG

Lightsaber test 
rig by Truong

_adamturnbull

Playing around with the BodyMech rigs. Still got some work to do to it but the basics are there! 

Blond

Wow, we<re still on the frst page but we already have some heavy stuff there.

The last 2 guys before me! Great job!

Hito

@_adamturnbull super cool! how are you morphing between the different stages? they are all built into a single rig?

_adamturnbull

@Hito Thanks! Nope they are 3 separate rigs. I'm just matching the silhouettes the best i can over two frames and switching between the rigs. I did a similar thing when I worked on Transformers to switch between vehicle and humanoid (eg. https://vimeo.com/134483898 )

KyleG

another saber test - this one played around with adding some sound
https://youtu.be/WUsVCWaPgJA

_adamturnbull

I think I'll call this done.. for now..

Blond

OK guys, I really need your insight for this one!
I'm currently working on this for my reel:

https://youtu.be/gHpTUmDVrL4

When she brushes off her enthusiasm, I'm having trouble choosing between these 2 versions,

looking left.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1PcjXHsc1k



Looking right

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLT6BQgNtnQ

I prefer the right one but what do you think?

Hito

@Blond I would think looking right is preferable since the viewer will be able to see the eyes better. Though I think that small head shake and dismissive look is a little out of place... would be more believable around "...of course you do."

Blond

Hito said:

@Blond I would think looking right is preferable since the viewer will be able to see the eyes better. Though I think that small head shake and dismissive look is a little out of place... would be more believable around "...of course you do."

Mmm, fair point..that's a ton of editing work though..I could maybe just remove it?

Hito

yea removing maybe best option. To me It seems extra at either place. You already have the "leaning back look down the nose" pose, which conveys the condescending attitude at "... big day?", then you have the sideways stance and fake smile expression at "of course you do.", both together makes it pretty clear she doesn't hold the guy in any high esteem. Plus the head tilt and looking to the side is a very obviously condescending expression, something you'd expect to see when someone is talking about another person behind their back, rather than to their face.

Blond

allright, ill see how i can fix it. Big thx.
I'm glad to know the intent of the acting is clear though

Port-Seven

_adamturnbull said:

Nice work @KyleG, love it!

I think I'll call this done.. for now..

This is how the Sims should celebrate birthdays/aging. ;p

AidanMerryman

Heya! First post on polycount! ^_^ I'm currently slaving away on this little guy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgU0Q52toKQ
I'm kinda in the middle of transitioning from blocking into a spline pass, so let me know if you have any pointers.

Green_Cheek_Conure

AidanMerryman said:

Heya! First post on polycount! ^_^ I'm currently slaving away on this little guy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgU0Q52toKQ
I'm kinda in the middle of transitioning from blocking into a spline pass, so let me know if you have any pointers.

Looking good. Looking forward to seeing its progress!

Svalinn

Hi everybody this is our final student project realized in 7 weeks. The animation is not perfect but it was a big challenge to make a cinematic totaly InGame (Unreal engine 4). Hope you will like it as us !

colbludedkila

Something I'm working on. Not done yet but it's getting there.

King combo WIP from Terrence Williamson on Vimeo.

Arturow

another first pass shot for the challenge "Larger than life"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kmy6pHLLgzs

Hito

A lot of personality in those movements!

laviofidelis

model
Something that i am  working! just for study... 

Hito

Wee bit of facial anim practice. Haven't done anything like this for a very long time, very rusty. Better part of the day for only ~45 frames worth. Ref was on 2nd monitor while working. Side by side helps to see where I differed. Goal was to copy the ref as closely as possible given the rig. Animated version of Bargue Drawing exercise if you will. Still ended up pushing in a few places.

https://syncsketch.com/sketch/128840#156933