9.30.2015

Animation Time! - Billy Barker Rig


Today's Inspiration:
art is the most revealing manifestation of human activities and that it is the one that will most easily give us a clue to the nature of man and to his outlook upon the world

- Edmund Dulac
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Dulac
http://dulac.artpassions.net/

Program - Maya 2014
http://www.autodesk.com/products/maya/overview

Rig - Billy Barker
http://www.creativecrash.com/maya/downloads/character-rigs/c/billy-barker

Animator's Bibles:
Character Animation Crash Course
Animator's Survival Kit
Illusion of Life
12 Principles of Animation
Drawn to Life

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Scorpio Ship - Animation Time!

Today's Animation Time features the Scorpio Ship Rig.
Base - light up and down and tilt side to side
Legs - front legs lead the movement, middle legs follow,  back legs offset the front
Arms - light push out and forward with extension and twist in the blades
Blades - spin and twist at a medium pace
Tail - coils back and lashes out
Missiles and Bottom wheel - bounce and drag from the movement of the base