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From: fmartins@esoterica.pt (Fernando Martins)
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Subject: Re:Character animation
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>As many animators know and will tell you, effective character animation
>doesn't come from any software package but from the heart and soul of the
>"artist". It doesn't matter if you are using one of Pixar's super-wowie
>machines or an Etch-A-Sketch, it's how creativly you decide to use the
>particular tool.
After many logo anims, exploding ships, rippling fountains and other small
easy-to-do animations, I finally decided to use bones to do something more
useful than deforming soda cans.
I knew that would be a difficult task to learn and I respected everyone who
does character animation out there.
So, I started by what I thought that would be the easyest approach: pickup any
object and start applying bones to it.
I used the cow :) God, those legs started to brake everywhere and don't
deform anything as I expected.
Did anyone do this kind of stuff? Like picking up humanoid and make it move?
Or the cow, or any other stuff? Can someone tell me where is a scene already
made where I could look and study? Any tutorials out there?
Can some character gurus help me start in this? Like Larry Shultz (I guess)
Thans a lot.
PS: After my experiments, I don't respect anymore those character animators...