What are you working on Animators? 2017!

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BradlayMunn

Please check out this short film my team and I made, and submitted for Rookies
http://www.therookies.co/projects/visual-effects/character-showreel-2017/

Luk0

Quickly blocked out an entry to the Death Animation challenge in some free time today, would love some other eyes on it before I move to splining! Thanks! 
https://www.syncsketch.com/sketch/157574#190523

isosmrt

Hey guys, I have one shot that I did on "monster trucks" 
Even though I worked on this film for many months doing R&D, I moved onto another show shortly after this one went into production, but I'm glad I got at least one shot!

AGoodFella

isosmrt said:

Hey guys, I have one shot that I did on "monster trucks" 
Even though I worked on this film for many months doing R&D, I moved onto another show shortly after this one went into production, but I'm glad I got at least one shot!

Love the motion on his long arm and his growl. It's cool how he does his growl and then does a slightly bigger one straight after. Nice work!

isosmrt

Thanks man! was a really bonkers movie to work on. Check it out if you haven't, its not half bad

Felixvivier

Finished this little Overwatch  play of the game style animation. Wondered what would it look like if Deadpool was part of overwatch, ended up with this   :*

LloydHallam

Felixvivier said:

Finished this little Overwatch  play of the game style animation. Wondered what would it look like if Deadpool was part of overwatch, ended up with this   :*

I had a similar idea myself!

This looks great, although I think having his right arm up in the air (perhaps holding a cowboy hat) would add to the overall comedic feeling of the shot. Also, having his legs pointed out, rather than wrapped around the missile would look better too.

Fabulous_Fab

Finished a Rime inspired wall climbing animation

Felixvivier

LloydHallam said:

Felixvivier said:

Finished this little Overwatch  play of the game style animation. Wondered what would it look like if Deadpool was part of overwatch, ended up with this   :*

I had a similar idea myself!

This looks great, although I think having his right arm up in the air (perhaps holding a cowboy hat) would add to the overall comedic feeling of the shot. Also, having his legs pointed out, rather than wrapped around the missile would look better too.

I see your point about the comedic effect. Might try to push the rodeo on a rocket gag when i have the time...  Much appreciated feedback !

Icarox

Hi, I recently made three FPS animations for an animation test (sprint, single shot, reload)

ConnorSwartwood

Rig: Kiel Figg
Music: White Denim
Animation: Connor Swartwood (me)

colbludedkila

When Maya tries to destroy your rig lol
<iframe src="https://player.vimeo.com/video/221841130" width="640" height="355" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen></iframe>

<p><a href="">Chi(C) when shapes attack!</a> from <a href="https://vimeo.com/user28618228">Terrence Williamson</a> on <a href="https://vimeo.com">Vimeo</a>.</p>

Hito

still not 100% on the cuts yet. but action is more less done.

RKirtlink

Hito said:

still not 100% on the cuts yet. but action is more less done.

Love the smears on the lightsaber. The cuts might be a little too much though, since all of his movement is so smooth you could probably get a really nice shot with a single take.

Hito

RKirtlink said:

Hito said:

still not 100% on the cuts yet. but action is more less done.

Love the smears on the lightsaber. The cuts might be a little too much though, since all of his movement is so smooth you could probably get a really nice shot with a single take.

Yeah, I like a couple of the cuts but the others feel too jarring. I'll revisit it and try longer takes.

Shurkuris

This is a character I'm almost done Rigging, this is the final result of it all.

Looking for some final feedback, and then I will go back and do a more professional breakdown of the Rig and what-not.

https://youtu.be/Dd7tSlwTOgo

AGoodFella

Shurkuris said:

This is a character I'm almost done Rigging, this is the final result of it all.

Looking for some final feedback, and then I will go back and do a more professional breakdown of the Rig and what-not.

https://youtu.be/Dd7tSlwTOgo

Cool. I think there could be a tad more up and down for the chest and hips.

ConnorSwartwood

https://youtu.be/rqkH3BrXqmY
WIP

ConnorSwartwood

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTgQvxtq6po
60 fps version

ConnorSwartwood

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDePydgmWOo&amp;feature=youtu.be

ConnorSwartwood

ConnorSwartwood

This is like a force choke except more force / impact.

Arturow

A shot from a larger piece I'm working at nights https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_UxClnqqZU

LloydHallam

Still needs work, but the deadline is tomorrow, so I'll have to focus on polishing what I can for now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dicajxLHPqo

ConnorSwartwood

Blond

First try ever at paper hand drawn animation!! Took me a 3 or 4 nights after work...pfff..sometimes, it's tedious, sometimes it's pretty fun!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2DejPxZWa0&amp;feature=youtu.be

Thesere are just roughs though so everything's messy and jittery...

RKirtlink

Tried my hand at animating a scene with some lip sync/acting

Blond

So here it is inked and partially tweened.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkiAWe83noo&amp;feature=youtu.be


For my first animation, I will stop here...it was just a test after all...

Arturow

Used the weekend to animate the next shot. I will just do 1 more to finish the piece, apply a small render to it and maybe sound https://youtu.be/bkfrgvIBv4A

KyleG

Walk I did during live webinar for my class 

Ed_0010

Quick animation I did last night.

ScottBurgoyne

BodyMechs exercise, would love some feedback!

https://syncsketch.com/playground/23b5d884a02d4369845932417a79219a#202787

AGoodFella

sbsips said:

BodyMechs exercise, would love some feedback!

https://syncsketch.com/playground/23b5d884a02d4369845932417a79219a#202787

Nice. Looking good. A few notes:

f14 - Make this pose higher for the COG. From this pose, the TY should be slowing down into the apex of the jump.

Maybe have the arms lead the motion more. So they propel the body up into the air.

f19 -Arms feel twinny through here.

f22 - Speeds up here. This is physically impossible. He's airborne. He has to travel at a constant speed sideways. As he's falling, the downward motion will be increasing in speed.

f29 - Landing feels soft. Push the spacing more so he hits a little harder.

f43 - feels like it speeds up abruptly here. Try to keep the sideways translation and the body's rotation constant.

f50 - Spacing for the hips feels linear here.

f56 - Roll feels off. Try grabbing some ref and seeing what is actually motivating the roll.

ScottBurgoyne

Hey @AGoodFella , Thanks a lot for the feedback, it's much appreciated! I'll definitely take your notes on board!

Felixvivier

Having some fun doing body mechanics and animating 2D fx  !

LloydHallam

Someone in work challenged me to animate an overhead/bicycle kick today, so I threw this together.

https://syncsketch.com/sketch/150635#203461

Ed_0010

Would love some feedback. 

https://www.syncsketch.com/playground/fe8b11fdcfb545a5bed5dfd45691c0c1#204150

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ID3D

https://youtu.be/BHLTTI7YnEM

alondraPaco

https://www.dropbox.com/s/jrg3udda8gpildp/drive_009a_anim_paco.mov?dl=0 

PLEASE CRITIQUE my current WIP dialogue piece, think my playblast settings are off, so sorry if it's pixilated.

MucFly

Hi folks o/
I'm new to animation, feedbacks tips and tricks are more than welcome ! 
have a good one 

work in progress
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yW3d88EgYo

lucianomunoz_

this! 

MucFly

Here is the other animation i did couple weeks ago
Both characters are from the game Dark Souls as most of you guys probably already noticed

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fschR4tys8k

EVernier

@joey pistone You're doing a great job with the volumes and proportions. The only thing I'd have to say about your animations is that they're very linear. Work on your timing and spacing and you'll have some really neat stuff, I think.

MucFly

EVernier said:

@joey pistone You're doing a great job with the volumes and proportions. The only thing I'd have to say about your animations is that they're very linear. Work on your timing and spacing and you'll have some really neat stuff, I think.

Totally agree with you I don't pay enough attention to the timing/rhythm, wich I realized now is as important as the rest (like you said volumes etc where i put a lot of effort on). i'll try to improve this  for my next animations for sure. 
Thanks for taking the time to critic my stuff man much appreciated .

lucianomunoz_

I finally call this exercise done.
C&C is still encouraged, it helps me better think future projects

https://vimeo.com/226993548

--- i don't understand why it isn't embedding the video..

Sonny

Hey guys, finally get to show off this badass I've been working on along with Shay (Character Artist) and David (Technical Animator)!

You can find the work in progress thread here : 
http://polycount.com/discussion/183371/gueilly-the-biker

Einar

Closing in to finish this one: https://syncsketch.com/sketch/170532#211496 Nitpicking and any form of feedback is highly appriciated. Gif is choppy so use the synchsketch link if you wanna see it properly

Updated Gif:
 
The gif is choppier than it's Giphy counterpart, is this an embed issue? If anyone have an answer don't be afraid to PM me.

Arturow

A project I did on nights

Arturow

Hello guys I was lucky enough to be a beta tester for Arc the Dragon from Josh Sobel and I did this cycle while i was on it you can watch more about the rig here vimeo.com/227662496

ConnorSwartwood