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25 Reasons "Anastasia" Is The Best Animated Film Ever. Welcome to CGStepInside.com, Find CG Studios ! - CGStepInside. Tech Art and Stuff: How To : Animate Cranks and Pistons in Maya. A recent project I worked on required the modelling of an animating crank and a piston similar to those used by steam locomotives.

Tech Art and Stuff: How To : Animate Cranks and Pistons in Maya

Engines that use pistons as a power source need a way of converting the back and forth (reciprocating) linear piston motion into rotational motion. Cranks are used to do this and these are connected to points that are offset from the main rotational axis on what is called the crankshaft, and these in turn are connected to the pistons. The crankshaft is the part that receives the rotational energy. The system will also work in reverse, turning the rotational movement into linear. So that's how it works in the real world, so how do we translate this into Maya? For our purposes, we'll use the rotating crankshaft to drive the animation and there's a few ways we can go about this; using constraints, using set driven keys or using expressions. Ernest et Célestine - Le site officiel du film. Maya User's Guide: Remove namespaces. Interview with Platige : The Making of Witcher 3 Wild Hunt Cinematic - Games, VFX. ITS ART - Your CG source of inspiration and learning.

Johan Mai Demoreel. Jolanta Jasiulionyte : Wolves Within. The project is stepping into other stages of animating.

Jolanta Jasiulionyte : Wolves Within

A challenge of animating quadrupeds asks for some better research into approaches and techniques. To start with I have looked at real life references. BBC Motion gallery and Frame Pool websites offer a great deal of sources. For instance there is a variety of videos of wolves and dogs in differing situations. Time lapsed videos and those X rayed ones were the most informative. At 11 second club , a website for animators, the topics of how to animate quadrupeds directed quickly to Edward Muybridge’s Books. Another hugely useful thing to do was to read about the general breakdown of dog’s move.

Diagonal walking – diagonal legs move simultaneously at the same direction Pacing - legs on the same side of the body move at the same time and direction, there is more roling in the body than in trotting Sprinting – ordinary run Galloping – moving in a series of leaps , front legs then back legs hit the ground , barely touching the ground. Image plane sequence not playing. View Full Version : image plane sequence not playing bungatron71100 Sounds like you're doing things right, but what version of Maya do you have?

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If I remember correctly, the older versions of Maya require you to number your img seq without frame padding (the zeros in front of the frame number). So you sequence should look like: img1.tga, img2.tga, img3.tga... img10.tga, img11.tga... and so on. Bear concepts - Silly Beast Illustration. Frozen 2013. Create Film-Like Animations with Autodesk Maya and Adobe After Effects.

Step 1: Create Your Composition Before you do anything else, it’s extremely important to plan out your scene.

Create Film-Like Animations with Autodesk Maya and Adobe After Effects

First, make sure you’re happy with the overall composition. This will give you a better idea of the scene and will keep you on track toward your goal. It will also make it easier to flesh things out later on. For this closing shot, we were as specific as we could be- we sketched out the landscape and environment all the way down to the placement of the flowers and where each would land. Step 2: Create a Matte Painting. Oktobor Animation. Pixar’s 22 Rules of Storytelling. These rules were originally tweeted by Emma Coats, Pixar’s Story Artist.

Pixar’s 22 Rules of Storytelling

Number 9 on the list – When you’re stuck, make a list of what wouldn’t happen next – is a great one and can apply to writers in all genres. You admire a character for trying more than for their successes.You gotta keep in mind what’s interesting to you as an audience, not what’s fun to do as a writer. They can be very different.Trying for theme is important, but you won’t see what the story is actually about til you’re at the end of it. Anime Studio - Animation Software for Professionals, Beginners, Kids & Teachers. Stop-Motion Animator Spent Four Years Making His Dream Come True. Not sure I'm glad to hear Paypal is scum everywhere, but it does somehow ease the pain of feeling like it's worse in Japan.

Stop-Motion Animator Spent Four Years Making His Dream Come True

I simply had to say goodbye to about $220 USD that my father gave to them, to give to me, without checking whether that simple action was possible. It used to be a given that money could go in, and come out, in some form or another. Instead it got lost in there and I battled with Paypal Japan a while, unable to give it back, unable to withdraw it, unable to use it as funds for elsewhere. That was in 2008 or so, I think. Said goodbye to the account and will always remember that experience, and never trust them with my money again. Japan's banking within Japan is quite good. Forums - exporting with audio. Reference! Reference! - free database for animation.