my old floursack stuff.. a small test anim
Hi guys,
Some of my ex-students asked me to put this stuff up here. Its a small planning animation I did in PAP (plastic animation paper – its free, and a pro version is available free now online.. grab it while you can) for a contest in animation forums long long long long time ago. Never got to 3d in that, but hopefully I might get there soon.
I like the animation, but there could be more squash and stretch in there. I like the energy in it, and the heavy feel of the hammer. Enjoy.. 
Another simple test : (from long back, trying out PAP and my wacom)
Cheers
DJ
Getting ready to animate with blender again
Hi guys,
With Nature academy and all, I started to become more and more comfortable with blender. And, as always, since I love character animation, thats what I am thinking about again and again. Watching the pslman rig (video below) started making me feel more like animating for a while now. And then the rednelb (by pepeland) character almost did me in. Its a great rig. Even if you are not into blender, you should still check out the video below and also the video on this rednelb page :
http://www.daniel3d.com/pepeland/misc/3dstuff/blender/rig/red-nelb/red-nelb.htm
psl man multi rig video (simply awesome by pepeland.com Daniel Martinez lara)
That got me into searching for rigs, especially cartoony ones. And I went to www.blendswap.com and downloaded all those toony ones, roboty ones, that I found appealing. After going through all those, i found out that in functionality, for a cartoony character, I found that my own DJ_long_guy rig suited ME best. (but red nelb is still a better, far better rig). That said, there are great rigs out there, and if not for my own ‘maya-rig-like’ habbit, some of them would be great. But most of them are not done up to par (probably because those who did them did not intend to) in terms of functionality. For example, in many rigs, the moment you move hips down, toes start going under the ground, etc.
So, although still ginger about it, i think i am getting more and more ready for blender again.
Hopefully, i will get to animate in it, and get comfortable with it, and create rock-star quality animation.
Cheers,
DJ
P.S. ALL THAT SAID, I MISS A FLOUR SACK RIG FOR BLENDER. And I still dont know (not figured out yet) how to do it on my own.. :/
