Today was a pretty amazing day. Not in terms of what I did today which was doing Overtime work for 4 hrs on a sunday. No but in terms of my development and mindset, Ill explain.
So after spending the week or so working on walks and eventually moving up to full body walks. I was having a lot of technical issues with Gimbal lock.
Which after some very helpful advice on the 11 second club forums I was linked some awesome videos
I never really understood how this worked before. After watching this I feel I really have a greater understanding of why it occurs instead of just going AHHHH why is this crazyness happening.
The Rotation Problem from The Guerrilla CG Project on Vimeo.
Euler Rotations Explained from The Guerrilla CG Project on Vimeo.
The second link goes to a 3 part animation tutorial on how to animate a walk that starts with how to resolve the gimbal lock issue. Also the way he explains walks is amazing. I love how he said that him as a senior animator it takes him a couple of days to animate a walk cycle. Juniors take about a week and students can take month or two. It really does put it in perspective. There is so much to consider when animating a walk.
http://sbit-animation-centrala.blogspot … anima.html
However the amazing part is that the guy who did that tutorial above about walks is a guy who I used to work with at Krome Studios in Brisbane Australia, it really is a small world.
He also happens to have one of the best animation resource sites I have found and I reccomened everyone checking it out.
http://arcresourcepage.blogspot.com/
Also check out
http://spungella.blogspot.com/
After spending an afternoon of reading articles on things from walks to animation in general it really helped put things into perspective and help me get my head in the right place. I do feel I have been rushing through things a bit and do have a tendency to jump straight into things without planning things as well or thinking about whats behind them.
I will link below just a few articles that I found really inspirational reading this afternoon/evenning
I found this article really great as I think its really easy to get in habit of thinking as study only as actually animating and reading up tutorials and articles. After reading this I realized I really need to start watching more movies.
http://spungella.blogspot.com/2008/07/importance-of-watching-lot-of-movies.html
If you only read 3 articles these should be it. I found this to be really inspirational and really help put things in perspective. I am going to strive to take all of these things to heart and especially try to plan all my animations with what the splinedoctors article said.
http://splinedoctors.blogspot.com/2008/01/anticipation-arcs-and-overlap-oh-my.html
http://academyanimation.blogspot.com/2008/01/time-and-effort.html
http://academyanimation.blogspot.com/2008/01/sounds-simple-doesnt-it.html
I found this article great and I'd highly reccomend it to anyone who is thinking of animating things for a showreel or even just working out what they should animate next. These articles go through how to approach animation in terms of if they are an exercise or a demoreel piece.
http://spungella.blogspot.com/2008/09/what-should-i-animate_24.html
http://spungella.blogspot.com/2008/11/what-should-i-animate-pt2-exercises.html
http://splinedoctors.com/2008/05/revisiting-what-makes-a-good-reel/
If you are looking for more
http://spungella.blogspot.com/2008/06/best-of-spungella.html
Either way I am feeling really pumped and ready to absorb as much information as I can :)
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