Learning Blender / animation

traden

I've just started studying how to rig a character and animate him in Blender. I was wondering if I could get feedback on the different animation sequences.

Note: You need the Unity web player

http://www.shaunlarkin.net/unity/build01.html

thanks in advance!

raiskul

The animations are looking good you could try making them a little less stiff looking though, the hand should be more relaxed in the walk anim. Also, the poly, where the shoulder meets the chest, is triangulated in the wrong direction, it's caisung that area to deform weird. Another problem area is the bottom of the shirt where it meets the legs, now that there is no texture it's hard to tell, but the legs shouldn't be pulling the shirt that much, try decreasing the influence the leg bones have on that area and increase the influence the hip has.

Last thing, to get rid of that subtle jump in the animation loop you should smooth the ends of the ipo curves. I found a tutorial, on how to do that, before on vimeo I'll try to find it again.

traden

@raiskul: thanks for the good feedback. I'll see if I can tighten up the animations based on your ideas.

I did noticed some of the topology was deforming strangely. I still have a lot to learn about modeling for animation.

AsaNYC

Try leading with the shoulders a bit more for the run anim. They act as a sorta counter-balance to the legs and hips when you're running.

ru4it

Here is a great rescourse to use www.bbcmotiongallery.com

traden

@ru4it that's a pretty great resource. Bookmarked.

ru4it

yeah it is. Chris Hatala mentioned it in a lecture a couple months back.