Anime Studio Character tests

[neeters_guy]

Haven't done much animating lately. I've been playing around with different rig set ups in the past several months so I thought I throw them together in a short compilation.



I feel like I should start a real ambitious project, but I can't seem to find the right idea...

[Artpen]

Great work, fantastic character rigs, really shows the power of the software

[Danimal]

Woah, the sudden shot of three of the same guy walking together was a psychadelic freakout!

Really looks great. Nice characters. I like Rockin' Rambear - he looked like he was having a great time!

[Yosemite Sam]

Great stuff, Neeters!

Did you use a target bone for the guitar?

[ddrake]

Very nice. I'm particularly impressed with the legs in your front walk cycles. Subtle but necessary depth overlap to make it convincing.

I think maybe the front walk of the blue shirt guy has a bit too much side to side in his upper half, (at least compared to how the 3/4 and profile versions move) but maybe that's to facilitate the nice looking depth changes on the hands overlapping the sides. (At any rate, front walk cycles aren't my strong suit. So don't let me harp on the details.)

A quality display of rigs, and I look forward to any ambitious project you take on.

[Danimal]

Did you use a target bone for the guitar?

Speaking of that, just because the nitpicker in me can't resist: I watching the video again, and that's actually a bass. It wouldn't make the sound that we hear.

[Danimal]

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[neeters_guy]

Thanks for the feedback everybody. I really appreciate it.

Great stuff, Neeters!
Did you use a target bone for the guitar?

I didn't in this case although that would've been a good use of that tool. Most of these rigs were made in earlier versions and use really basic techniques. I may make these files available after I clean them up a bit.

Very nice. I'm particularly impressed with the legs in your front walk cycles. Subtle but necessary depth overlap to make it convincing.

I think maybe the front walk of the blue shirt guy has a bit too much side to side in his upper half, (at least compared to how the 3/4 and profile versions move) but maybe that's to facilitate the nice looking depth changes on the hands overlapping the sides.

Yes, I agree. All of these walks are pretty basic walks, so sometimes I'll add a weird accent to add "personality". I think Richard Williams talks about how just changing the breakdown pose can really alter a walk (going down on the passing position or leaning forward on the stride position, and so on). You can get some really funny and bizarre walks by doing this (maybe that'll be follow up to this ).

...and that's actually a bass. It wouldn't make the sound that we hear.

Heh heh, good catch, Danimal. It's a cheat of course; I thought 6 strings would be too hard to see. Now that I look at it, I missed the guitar cable as well.

Oh well...always good to have an extra set of eyes...

[lwaxana]

Nice character tests. I especially liked the line work on the bear and the acting animation for the red haired woman. And looking forward to more news on your next big project! Do you have a general concept you're developing or is it completely open? Sounds like you have some exciting decisions ahead!