Archives "2008"

Holy Briefs Batman? Another Walk Cycle?

Posted on Dec 08, 2008
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We got an actual Brief for these two walk cycles. Basically we had footage recorded of us pacing up and down doing 'a walk'. I did 'my walk'. It is a pretty casual walk, yet quite quick partly because I have a fairly long stride. Since this was to be a walk cycle, I had to analyze my reference footage carefully to pick out the essential aspects and subtleties (that word doesn't look like it is spelt...


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The walk cycle is not finished by a swim.

Posted on Dec 08, 2008
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That goes out to you triathlon obsessed types. The walk cycle is the latest of the 3D exercises we have undertaken. Learning to walk again is actually very interesting, unless you are doing it traditionally frame by frame on paper. At that point for me it is very tedious and frustrating. I am pretty pleased with my 3D walk cycle, hence why I am putting it at the top of this post. Put the nasty stuff...


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Bradford Animation Festival 2008 – Saturday

Posted on Dec 02, 2008
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The final day at the Bradford Animation Festival of 2008.  Finally, the epic week of sitting down in front of screens and having to watch your back in the streets of Bradford was almost at an end. The morning was an emotional one, with the John Coates Retrospective. It featured interviews with various people he had worked with, including Joanna Quinn and Paul Wells. These were followed by John's...


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Bradford Animation Festival 2008 – Friday

Posted on Nov 29, 2008
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Kicked off the Friday with the power. The Power of Animation to be exact. Guest spokeswoman Kerry Drumm came in to speak about the power of animation in public information films, from as early as the Second World War, to inform and educate us. Around the war, there was a need for information to be delivered at much quicker pace. This opened the doors for short films (5 minutes or so) to become...


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Bradford Animation Festival 2008 – Thursday

Posted on Nov 22, 2008
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[Sorry for the delay on Part 2 of the Bradford Animation Festival, a nasty Bradford bug got the better of me. I'm OK now though.] Day 2, Captain's log. First activity started at 11am, with a presentation by Oliver Dunn of Natural Motion. Natural Motion are the guys who made a break-through in 3D character animation with DMS (Dynamic Motion Synthesis) and brought it into the gaming industry in the form...


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Bradford Animation Festival 2008 – Wednesday

Posted on Nov 17, 2008
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I have to say, it was a pretty awesome week. I will do a post for each of the 4 festival days, so check back over the next few days for related articles. We kick started the first day of the Bradford Animation Festival 08 with the Professional Films Official Selection, which we were a wee bit late for (only about 5 minutes). The 4 nominated films were all very unique, but 2 of them really out-shined...


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Bouncing Anticipation

Posted on Nov 03, 2008
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Animation Principles touched on so far: Timing Squash and Stretch Anticipation Overlap Performance Weight was also mentioned, but Andy feels that weight is something taken into consideration when covering the above principles anyway. Timing First principle we looked at was timing, using 12 postcards to animate a sequence as previously seen my first digital animation post. Timing...


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