Some Good Online Animation Books Too

 These are excellent reads.

The nine old men PDFs from Animation Meat

Walt Stanchfield "Drawn to Life" PDFs from Animation Meat

If you like the Walt Stanchfield ones, I suggest getting your hands on a copy of the two "Drawn to Life" texts.   You can get it on Amazon, but check in your library first.

Jack

 

Tags: Books

The Principles of Animation

1. The 12 principles of Classical Animation
2. Ollie Johnson 
3. John Lasseter
4. Principles applied to 3D animation
5. The ... 24 principles of animation

Remember!!

Jack will not be teaching this Thursday (29/07/10) and Friday (30/07/10)

Makeup lectures will take place in Week 15

Please Vote for Calypso

My film is online at the Digital Media World Festival.

Please if you do go there, I would appreciate it if you vote (by clicking on the stars).

http://www.digitalmedia-world.com/index.php?option=com_hwdvideoshare&task=viewvideo&Itemid=108&video_id=18

Also, footprint scene

I need help making this "Footprint scene" look more like a footprint. No matter what I do to it, I can't get it to look convincing. Can anyone help me out with lights or something?

What do you guys think of it so far? How can I improve?

Week 5 mile stone

Looming Week Five Milestone:

Animate sheep Close Up scene.

The background being quite simple (see pic) has already been crafted.

The sheep character has been fully rigged, bar one problem with the eyes rotating strangely..

Description: "The sheep does three takes. Left, right, then center. His ears flapping about with his head movements"

The monster, which sneaks up from behind... will have to wait, as Chris has %80 textured Lee's "old man" hands. Given a blinn, or a nice soggy wet look, these old man hands can be turned monstrous.

Work in progess

playblasts of the establishing shot and the two characters sizing each other up Im happy with the size up shot, but the establishing is very rough and wrong. i need to change the speed and make the camera ease in when the movement starts, you'll have to show me how again jack.

music tracks performed by the McMillan brothers was recorded last night these need to be edited and comped together. these will then be used to help animate. Ive just started animating the 1st pass now that most of the shots have been blocked out. So im glad i altered my 5 week milestone to be a bit more grey. Issues at the moment for me include the uv layouts on the vikings are not acceptable, i should look into road kill to see if it can help.

YanZhi's Week 5 Milestone

By week 5 I will have:

• backgrounds completed scanned at the appropriate resolution
• composite in AE that reflects the existing animatic
  
• 60% of drawing (key poses and inbetweens) completed and scanned, to be animated in Flash.
• rough cut sound
  

ryans goals

week 5 goals is to have

• all characters modelled and textured
• all cameras locked down
• sfx done and ambient sounds
• dialoge 1st try

Garratt's week 5 milestone post

By week 5 i will aim to have achieved; blocking out the camera's for all the shots. Have all the animation close to completion and recorded the narration and music.

What still needs to be done: Texturing,Lighting, Sound, rendering.

Post: effects: lightning (lighting), glowing runes, snow.

Michael Drake - Week 5 Milestone Commitment

By Week 5 I will have the following completed:

* 'Draft' sound edit (Dialogue, SFX, Ambient sounds timed and edited)
* AFX Edit (with any finished elements and sound, timed and edited)
* Backgrounds for all comic panels (including all seperate elements and benday dots but not all characters)

Yen's week 5 milestone

By week 5 i will have:
* basic set layout with basic lighting and basic colours/textures
* final camera placement
* draft composite
* rough sound edit
* the 2 primary characters rigged and textured (Chris Borg) and ready to be animated.

Cara's Shedule

Week 5 - Rough soundscape completed. Cameras set up. Drawing of beautiful world completed.

Chris' Milestone one

Week Five(Milestone one) :
My first milestone by week five is to have all animation blocked out and towards the final passes of the music, including:

• rough camera moves
• basic character and prop animation
• 80-90% of the music complete

Rio Full trailer