Learning 3D Character Animation with Jeff Lew
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If you can't get to college and don't have time to read a huge volume then learn from a self taught professional
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I love art and have always been interesed in animation like the hand drawn 2d kind of the old Disney,Looney Tunes,Popeye etc. So When the 3d kind like Toy Story came out I said, "Wow! I've got to do this!"
With the 2d kind all you need is pencil and paper and a movie camera capable of shooting one frame at a time. Then there are plenty of great books that explain the drawing techniques. But with 3d animation how and where do you even start?
I started by rushing out and buying different affordable even freeware software pacages that claimed to be "easy" and intuitive with fabulous illustrations of what had been done with it. After weeks of reading the tech manuals and creating sorry models that did little more than spin in place, much less any thing that looked like Toy Story, I was frustrated.
Then along came this DVD by a man who had taught himself how to animate and with the focus on how to make a character move.
Jeff shows a lot of principles that were perfected by the 2d artist of the likes of Disney that make a character appear to express emotions. He shows how to apply these same principles in the world of the 3d software. Jeff shows how to use the tools in the software that are common to most 3d softwares to adjust, fine tune, and correct little glitches that will be encountered as you seek to make the character do what you want.
Since I don't have the time to model my own characters I bought a software called "POSER" which has a number of characters that come with the software as well as a large community that sells custom human and toon characters that are already rigged and ready to animate.
As I watched the video over and over I began to understand the tools uses. This was a great aide in shortening the learning curve. Seeing it done is far better than reading how its done. |
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