CG Masters Animation Resources

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Assignment: Animate Jellifer jumping across a dangerous chasm

In your scene, Jellifer needs to do the following:

Pause or idle for 24 frames (1 second)

Look over the edge

Appear scared or nervous

Antic down and jump to a landing halfway across

squash and jump the rest of the way

settle on landing

Pause or idle for 24 frames

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This is my video series highlighting each of the 12 Principles of Animation as described by Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnston in their book "The Illusion of Li...

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Lens set for Storyboard Assignment

18 mm 25 mm 35 mm 50 mm 75 mm 110 mm

720 HD (1280x720)

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Relevant to our bouncing ball exercises, perhaps?

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And another one about Michael Bay

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We’ll be talking about shot composition and cinematography in a few weeks. Here’s an interesting video on “winning the scene” in Silence of the Lambs.

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Assignment: Animate Jellifer jumping across a dangerous chasm

In your scene, Jellifer needs to do the following:

Pause or idle for 24 frames (1 second)

Look over the edge

Appear scared or nervous

Antic down and jump to a landing halfway across

squash and jump the rest of the way

settle on landing

Pause or idle for 24 frames

You need to do the following steps and get each approved before you move to the next one:

Plan and thumbnail out your scene

Block in your animation (rough poses and timing)

First Pass animation

Address animation notes

When setting up your scene, create a shot camera for playblasting and previewing.

Step 2 is due in class next week (Monday, October 27, 2014)

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OLD ASSIGNMENT FOR REFERENCE

Here’s a version with the rig on it and a curve representing the path of the jello.

You can download the .mov files here:

Without rig

With rig

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OLD ASSIGNMENT FOR REFERENCE A first pass of my version of the assignment. I still need to work on the settle a bit. I hope this is helpful. Note the frame counter in the window (I did this at 24fps)

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SynchSketch

Is here:

http://syncsketch.com/

Upload your playblast. (Use Maya's help if you've forgotten how to make a playblast) Syncsketch will send you a link. Send it along to me at helpuspatrick. I will make some notes and send you an email back. You can then use your link to check out the notes.

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Download and save videos directly from Youtube, Google, Metacafe, Putfile and more. Simply copy and paste.

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The 12 Principles of Animation

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And here's what it looks like!