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tirsdag 18. mars 2014

Not a cyborg

I kept having difficulties with this rig in the newer 2014 version of Autodesk Maya, since the rig seems to be unable to be rendered in Mental Ray or Maya Software, while it works just fine in 2013 version. Seems unable to find it's textures, even though it's all linked up in hypershader. So this clip is done in playblast, so at least the animation can be shown.

I used a sound clip from Monsters vs Aliens (Rob Letterman, 2009) as my reference this time, since I felt it would be great for extreme motions and character acting since we have here a woman that starts off calm, but then panics out of hysteria.

I started off with blocking each pose by listening to the sound clip and making notes of which parts I should make a pose and what kind of pose there should be appropriate to the dialogue. This made things a lot more easier since I would only need to clean up between the key frames to make sure the rig animated properly.

The rig I used was Bonnie