Saturday, 13 March 2010

Wondered if My Dog was Walking Correctly

Today I concerned whether my dog model was walking correctly when it was being animated. It was walking in the order shown in the diagram below.



To ensure I was correct, I checked actual dogs and animated dogs walking in videos and films.
I also wanted to check Up as that is a 3D film and it is the one that has the most similar dogs (obviously not similar quality though....in their dreams)
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Finished Dog Walk .... But Broke an IK/FK Handle!

Last night I finished all of the dog walking scenes ... but then an IK handle got broken! I lost quite a lot as when I opened the last saved file, not all of the dog model was there! How annoying! this was late at night so I decided to pack up for the night as I felt very frustrated. I thought that I would get up very early in the morning to redo this and start getting on with my work! I got up at 7 (very early for me, I'm a late night person) and got the walk back and got quite a lot of my work finished.
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Tuesday, 9 March 2010

Lady and the Tramp

Lady and the Tramp is obviously a classic and I used to watch it a lot when I was a child. I really like the way that different walks are often used by the dogs to suit the characters e.g. Tramp layed-back and cool, Lady has her head held high and looks sophisticated when she walks and Trusty walks in a messy way with his legs not always staying in a tidy walking position. I would like to capture the spirit of my character in the director of this film did.
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Scooby Doo Trailer (acted)

I wanted to look at the Scooby Doo film as it is an intersting mixture of reality and animation. I also felt that I could learn a lot from the character creation and moving style of Scooby Doo. I also like the way that they have kept close to the original style of the 2D scooby even though it will be with human actors.
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101 Dalmatians

There were better 101 Dalmatians videos on YouTube but sadly they had the embedding disabled. However the key point to make about this film clip is once again the character development is so strong even with a huge number of dogs of the same breed. There was another clip that I watched from this film that really interested me but I could not embed it (as mentioned above). This was the famous part where Roger was watching dogs being walked by their owners and he was noticing that their character was the same as the person walking them. I find this interesting because of the way that the dogs are given a character.
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Dogs in Up

I am using this video of the evil dogs in Up, as I want Damon (Maya dog Model) to act a similar way.
It was an interesting twist to have the leader of the dogs speaking in such a high pitched voice yet still maintaining control of the group. Alpha's walk is also very powerful and consistent with his character.
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Monday, 1 March 2010

Final Storyboard

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