Cartoon Pappy's Getting There...

gnat · Post by **gnat** » Sun Sep 17, 2006 7:43 pm

I have to give credit to Sevenfeet for most of this, especially as he did the rigging and animation on the head, but I am slowly figuring out this animation thing. I'm pretty bad at working out the timings on the walking dog, but I think I have the basic movements. It probably would have worked out better if I weren't trying to work out Actions at the same time I am doing my first complete animation.

Cartoon Pappy

Newer Version, 9/18

Something may come of all this someday.

Regards (and thanks to the forum),

Gnat

ulrik · Post by **ulrik** » Sun Sep 17, 2006 7:51 pm

It looks great! nice movements!

J. Baker · Post by **J. Baker** » Sun Sep 17, 2006 11:25 pm

Very nice! You captured the dog walk pretty good. The only thing that bothers me is the back leg. Just the part where it creases and the butt area.

The butt looks like a stiff cut-out animation. Adjust the points throughout the frames. To see what I mean, view this tutorial that I made. http://www.flashpulse.com/video/moho_bones.html

As for the bending crease. There's a hump just above the crease. Just push the point northeast just a bit on whatever frame that the bend is at it's max.

Other then that, it look great. Can't wait to see more.

gnat · Post by **gnat** » Tue Sep 19, 2006 3:25 am

Posted a new version of the video in the top message-- the Youtube version had a few too many artifacts, and this one's a bit more interesting (but I can't quite get the shadow thing down).

Gnat

Post by **Víctor Paredes** » Tue Sep 19, 2006 4:04 am

that looks good. it's always difficult make walk a four legs animal.
can i suggest something? the body height it's a little linear. the trunk should up and down meanwhile the dog walks.

J. Baker · Post by **J. Baker** » Tue Sep 19, 2006 4:56 am

gnat wrote:Posted a new version of the video in the top message-- the Youtube version had a few too many artifacts, and this one's a bit more interesting (but I can't quite get the shadow thing down).

Gnat

It's looking good though and I'm sure you'll get it.

AllenC · Post by **AllenC** » Tue Sep 19, 2006 11:49 am

Gnat,

Pappy is coming along fine. Thank you for sharing the progress.

J.Baker,

Nice tutorial. I saw Camstudio on the task bar, is that what you used to produce the tutorial? If so, how does the quality come out when you convert it to .SWF with the SWF Producer part of that program?

AllenC

J. Baker · Post by **J. Baker** » Tue Sep 19, 2006 2:51 pm

AllenC wrote: J.Baker,

Nice tutorial. I saw Camstudio on the task bar, is that what you used to produce the tutorial? If so, how does the quality come out when you convert it to .SWF with the SWF Producer part of that program?

AllenC

Too large. It eats up the memory and sometimes haults the pc. I would have liked to use it but just couldn't.

AllenC · Post by **AllenC** » Tue Sep 19, 2006 4:41 pm

J.Baker,

Too large. It eats up the memory and sometimes haults the pc. I would have liked to use it but just couldn't.

I see. Also, I noticed it was a DivX5 .avi, did you encode to DivX after you made it? The video came out very clear at 640x480, what was the screen resolution used to create the original? The file size is certainly acceptable.

I only ask because I used Camstudio to create 3 tutorials for a friend/client a few weeks ago. I used the SWF Producer after.

I was thinking of making some tutorials for Anime Studio as I learned more about it, but you and Steve Ryan seem to be ahead of me there. How many Moho/Anime Studio tutorials have you produced so far?

TIA,
AllenC

J. Baker · Post by **J. Baker** » Tue Sep 19, 2006 9:34 pm

I added a new topic so we don't high-jack gnat's topic.
http://www.lostmarble.com/forum/viewtop ... 7045#27045

AllenC · Post by **AllenC** » Wed Sep 20, 2006 1:23 am

J.Baker Wrote:

I added a new topic so we don't high-jack gnat's topic.

Good Idea!

Gnat, I didn't mean to get so far off topic in your thread. For that I apologize.

I look forward to seeing more of your work with Pappy!

AllenC

gnat · Post by **gnat** » Wed Sep 20, 2006 11:11 am

No problem... my topic had already its course. People are very courteous around here.

Regards,

Gnat

Mikdog · Post by **Mikdog** » Tue Oct 03, 2006 7:42 pm

Great stuff. Animating a dog is a pretty steep start to animating, though.

Nice work.