September 17th, 8pm CDT, 2019 – Blender Animation Critique

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  • #10677
    Wayne Dixon
    Participant

      Hey folks,

      I will be hosting a Live Animation Critique on September 17th, 20:00-21:30 CDT.

      I will be answering any animation questions you might have, and critiquing your animation!

      So please post any questions here, as well as links to your work that you would like me to look at.

      I will focus on the submissions that are related to your CGCookie learning first, but I’m happy to look at any animations that you are working on.

      Don’t forget to RSVP to the event!

      #50746
      Jake Korosi
      Participant

        Oh HECK yeah!

        On his live stream yesterday, Kent mentioned something about an internet reliability upgrade in your neck of the woods that meant you’d be able to start hosting live streams soon.  Looking forward to seeing what you bring!

        #50747
        smurfmier1985
        Participant

          @waylow congrats on finally getting your koala-bears-with-cans-internet upgraded to hoppy fast kangaroo speed! It’s about time 🎉

          Bummed it will be at 3 AM for me so I won’t catch it live ☹️

          Good luck and hope you enjoy doing your first glitch free stream!

          #50748
          Chris Strunk
          Participant

            Yay! This is awesome! I’m going to go ahead and submit my current treasure chest animation. I uploaded my beauty render as well as a viewport render with frame numbers. My goal was to make it seem like someone (or something, oooh spooky) was trying to escape from the chest. I would love to get feedback on it! See you in the stream!

            https://cgcookie.com/u/furfur111/projects/wip-treasure-chest-animation

            #50749
            Kenny Chan
            Participant
              #50750
              Nurudeen Agbonoga
              Participant

                I havent practiced as much as I should. But I struggle with making characters feel alive. What are things you do to make sure your characters feel alive? Here are links to animations ive done outside the courses with the vonn bots rigs.

                https://vimeo.com/351835346

                https://vimeo.com/350528789

                #50751
                spikeyxxx
                Participant

                  Hey Wayne, If you allow me to put in a horrible animation…

                  I do not want to be an animator, but I would like to be able to animate, if that makes sense;)

                  I still need to follow your animation courses (just got to the ball circle…)!

                  I can make things move, but I can’t animate and I realize that that is going to take a lot of time and effort, but still, if you have time enough, please watch this:

                    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_3ZGv9KOAk&feature=youtu.be

                  #50752
                  Omar Domenech
                  Participant

                    It is still not finished and perhaps it doesn’t counts as an animation, but I’ll try and submit it nonetheless, see where that goes. It’s a demo reel I’ve been working on to maybe try and land a job at a studio somewhere. I’m so tired of looking at it that I’ve lost all perspective. Do you have your own demo reel, for when you’re trying to land a freelance job? do you have any advice? Should I start my own bakery instead?

                    #50753
                    smurfmier1985
                    Participant

                      @dostovel  

                      Wayne’s animation reel: https://vimeo.com/187908883

                      Wayne’s acting reel: https://vimeo.com/278417011

                      Please do watch the acting reel, I ensure you will laugh at the end, it’s quite memorable 😆

                      #50754
                      smurfmier1985
                      Participant

                        @dostovel I also listened to this video by Flippednormals recently where they talk about creating a killer portfolio, as well as how to approach creating your demo reel. I found it very educational.

                        It’s focused at presenting your modeling skills (they are character modelers but it applies to all types of models).

                        https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HAC468bvNeI

                        #50755
                        Omar Domenech
                        Participant

                          Thanks Miranda, I mean Pepper. I really enjoyed both Wayne’s reels, and now I really want to do animation, it looks so cool. Why does that always happen? The only thing about animation is that it’s like you have to battle a four headed dragon before you get to the princess, meaning you have to defeat rigging first. But you see all the mutilated body’s of everyone who have tried it and can’t pass the dragon, it’s not a pretty picture. 

                          Already got a few good tips from the Flipped Normal guys. Thanks for that. 

                          #50756
                          Kaj Suominen
                          Participant

                            There is no Gold without Dragons. 🙂

                            #50757
                            Phil Osterbauer
                            Participant

                              Why would you need to learn rigging first? Sure rigging is a skill that parents well with animation. (see what I did there 😉 ) But in no way is it a prerequisite. If you want to learn to animate, grab that ball rig and start learning. 😀

                              #50758
                              Omar Domenech
                              Participant

                                @phoenix4690 Well it has always felt to me as if going surfing and not knowing how to swim. You can surf but it would be pretty great if you could defend yourself if something goes wrong. Maybe is not a fair comparison, I don’t know. It’s like being passionate about cars, but you don’t know what a transmission is or how to change a tire. Somehow I feel like I’m not legit. I bet it’s like a physiological thing though and it’s not that bad.

                                You know what also happens sometimes, you see a cool concept art of say a character on the internet and you go like aahh that would make a cool render. So you model, texture, light, etc it, you do the entire 3d pipeline and you show your final render to people and they go like wow dude, that looks sick, did you do that? and you go like yeah I made it…. then people see the concept art from where you took off and people say, ah so you didn’t actually do it? and you go like yeah I made it, that’s the concept art, and they go like, yeah so the dude that drew that picture was the one who came up with it, and you’re like yes they did the concept art but I made the whole other part of the job and they’re like, so who’s is it then? And you’re locked into this weird paradox of what actually count as who made it. Is it the concept artist who thought it up? or is it the 3D artist who brought it up into a tangible form? For me is a synergy of both, but I find people always go to the main source as to where to plant the flag of ownership. It always makes you feel cheap, like you didn’t really do it yourself. 

                                #50759
                                Wayne Dixon
                                Participant

                                  These are all great things to talk about in the stream.

                                  (I love you guys)

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