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1. Modelling for Animation

   

   Topic by Zephir62 · Mar 2007 · Home› Technical Talk

   I've always had trouble with figuring out the best methods in modelling for animation. PoopinmyMouth's little tutorial was a little confusing: http://www.poopinmymouth.com/process/tips/limb_deformations.gif Wouldn't the first example produce an awkward animation with the leg visibly cutting into itself? If you notice in…

2. Re: Modelling for Animation

   

   Reply by Rick Stirling · Mar 2007 · Home› Technical Talk

   Poops is more or less right Because you are dealing with polygons, and not deforming muscle mass, you basically have 2 options - pipecleaner mass loss, or intersection. Intersection works best in most cases.

3. Re: Modelling for Animation

   

   Reply by CheeseOnToast · Mar 2007 · Home› Technical Talk

   Take a look at the .pdf swordmaster tutorials from http://www.xcloud.net/. The knee and elbow construction works really nicely. It's in Korean I think, but the pictures are enough.

4. Re: Modelling for Animation

   

   Reply by Noren · Mar 2007 · Home› Technical Talk

   Poops example is correct, but a little simplified. The deformation also highly depends on placement of the joint in the limb and the positions of the vertices like the xcloud example shows. Even a one loop solution can look ok to a certain angle for meshes with very low polycount if you model the loop in a 45 degree angle…