jfeez@ Thanks for the advice, I'm watching digital tutors tutorials and will definitely check out the survival guide and thanks for the link it's very helpful. @anthonymcgrath - I can see how bad it is now, I'm going do some 2D studies and get try again. I'll look into that book as well, thanks.
I'm using 3Ds max to animate but whenever I try to use in/out tangents (step I think) it just acts as if it's a normal default tangent. I was watching a tutorial on digital tutors and his seems to work correctly and I followed him exactly but mine just reverts to auto smoothing between frames. Anyone know what I'm doing…
http://www.idleworm.com/how/anm/01b/bball.shtml -A tutorial on spacing your keyframes. (Tip. While reading this tutorial, think of the bouncing ball as the root of your character- His pelvis) Spacing is important, and I think it really ties in with what you're after here. It goes hand in hand with timing. Learning about…
@ Alidium :: An alternative to PS could be GIMP. Haven't personally used it, but there are a bunch of tutorials with how-to's on making gifs in it. Here's one ->http://www.wikihow.com/Create-an-Animated-GIF-Image-with-GIMP Lu u, It seems Maya is more wildly used, or at least has a greater market share at the moment in…
I remember struggling to learn this when I was starting out too. It's a difficult concept to get ahold of, at first. Here's a decent write up that might help http://www.idleworm.com/how/anm/01b/bball.shtml When in doubt, a quick google search with " [fundamental] animation tutorial" will help explain each one of them.…
Yeah, I do like "blocking to polishing" approach too, and that drives me mad, that I can't control hip movement separate from chest movements, it is hard to get clean motion of the hips most of the time in CAT... I love almost everything about CAT for my workflow, but inability to have separate COG and hip controls slowly…