So far, it's a good reel. If you really want to showcase your animation skills and make your reel stand out a little bit more, I'd say go for more ambitious action stuff, try and do action scenes. They can showcase your animation skills and may jump at the person who is considering you as an animator for a studio. Make…
Hi guys, I'm quite fluent with both 3ds Max and Maya. I can animate stuff around a timeline; it's easy enough to set key frames. However, one thing I cannot figure out or find any kind of documentation on whatsoever is how someone can skin/rig/animate a character for use in a game. This is very annoying for me, because…
Hi all, I am looking for an animator to animate a low poly dragon. Animation description: duration 15 seconds The dragon flies out from a hole in the ground, flies inside a building front entrance, flies out from the building back entrance and then flies back into the hole. If interested lease get back to me with a quote…
I'm making a piece that has metal sheets that should fold based on the angle the head is looking at. It sort of works similar to plate armor such as this. Now i haven't done any animation ever and i just want to make this so it can be animated in the future. What precautions should i take modelling this? I made each sheet…
This is a great start! This could use a little personality, you can tell a little story with something as simple as a bouncing ball, and thus engage your viewers (and yourself!). Think of the simplicity of the Pixar logo animation with the light jumping on the ball, the shapes and scene are as simple as it gets, and yet it…
Hi i just want know the easiet way to rig a flamingo. It's actually my first time rigging animals and would like to know if there are any plugins or 3rd party software that i can use. thank you.
Hello! Thank you all for your time on anyone who reads my query. I am an artist, and have been tasked with creating some animated game play footage of a simple dodging mobile game, and am rather stuck on how I should go about doing it. I have experience in 3Ds max, photoshop and Unreal. I am not a programmer, and have no…
I'm probably missing something extremely simple... but I'm trying to animate Uv's in maya 2010. I select the UV's. I hit S. I get this error. // Warning: Active objects have no keyable attributes, or animation layers are present and the BaseAnimation bar is not selected or locked. Am I retarded? What's going on here?
I am trying to find some tutorials, links or even books, that can get me started with animation for games. I am trying to learn the basics, simple walk and run animations etc. I have not had much luck so far. Does anybody know of any good tutorials, max based idealy.
Hello everyone, Tripmine studios team is looking for more character animators to help out with our ambitious projects. Character animators are required to deliver hight-quality animations mostly for character NPCs. We expect animators to handle the whole process, including rigging. Other requirements are good communication…