Friday, 21 November 2008

First animation





Now I have reached the point where is good to do some testing with animation. My second character (drummer) is ready. He is basically same guy as guitar player, but t-shirt is bit different and he has also cap. All textures are also different form previous one. I built the character so that it is easy to modify because we are supposed to have 3 different musicians (guitar player, keyboard player and drummer). So basically when you want to change clothes you need to enter .PSD file and change the textures and nothing else.

So far animation looks ok, but I'm not 100% satisfied with movement. I guess I could adjust the envelopes to make it bit more smooth. This animation is only 50 frames long (about 2s) but it is duplicated so that you can see the movement more better. I didn't you any specific tricks by doing this animation, it's basic keyframe animation. Im still searching for some motion capture files to make the animation more realistic. I't is almost impossible to create flowing movement if you don't have option to use proper motion capture files. By using biped you can get pretty nice results, but still it is really difficult to replicate human movements.

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