Flytrap - Stop Motion

It's Feeding Time! ... A fun little stop motion, featuring a Fly and a Venus Flytrap made out of Lego.

Rigs - Fly
https://www.lego.com/en-us

Flytrap
https://www.lego.com/en-us

Audio - Little Shop of Horrors 8 bit
https://youtu.be/B0c1CAtmAcE

Fly
https://youtu.be/hpYXLpP3E3U
https://youtu.be/EgKCnzKz6Yw

Venus Flytrap
https://youtu.be/jtoKRGbH1Js
https://youtu.be/p-XNmy8GcBE
https://youtu.be/v-ysjAMinqk

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Gryphon - Stop Motion Test

A quick little rough stop motion test, using a Gryphon from the Megabloks World of Warcraft collection.

Rig - Gryphon
https://warcraft.megabloks.com//

Audio - Warcraft: Skies of Azeroth
https://youtu.be/K_J8k43gUhY

Lina - Animation Time!

Today's Animation Time features the Lina Rig.
Head - light tilt and drag with extra bounce and float in the hair
Chest - puffed out, light compress and release with a little drag in the belly
Hips - light up and down, rotate to offset the chest
Legs - slight raise and lower
Feet - drag down and overlap from the movement of the legs
Arms - held outward light up and down starting at the shoulders
Hands - overlap and drag from the movement of the arms and forearms extending into the fingers and thumbs

Animation Time! - Lina Rig

Today's Inspiration:
Keep your eyes open, think before you draw and practice, practice, practice.

- Florian Satzinger
http://paperwalker.blogspot.com/
https://www.instagram.com/floriansatzinger/

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

Rig - Lina
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=187943419

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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Generic Bird - Animation Time!

Today's Animation Time features the Generic Bird Rig.
Head - light bounce and tip forward and back with a little overlap in the beak
Chest - puffed out, light up and down
Hips - rotate to offset the chest, and move to allow for the tail feathers to flap
Wings - medium small flaps
Legs - bounce and drag from the movement of the hips extending into the claws
Tail - extra quick medium flutter movements

Animation Time! - Generic Bird Rig

Today's Inspiration:
Don't waste time reworking old failures....If you keep going back, you're missing out on a chance to do something new.

- Cory Loftis
https://twitter.com/CoryLoftis
http://coryloftis.tumblr.com/

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

Rig - Generic Bird
http://www.davidoreilly.com/downloads/

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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Airship - Animation Time!

Today's Animation Time features the Airship Rig.
Propeller - spins and twists with a little wobble and tilt
Propeller Base - slow spin, light up and down
Orb Console - drags, light raise and drop from the movement of the base with a little rotate overlapping

Animation Time! - Airship Rig

Today's Inspiration:
Just keep at it, and if one thing isn't working, switch it up and try something new!

- Max Dunbar
http://www.max-dunbar.com/
http://max-dunbar.deviantart.com/

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

Rig - Airship
http://www.3dfiggins.com/Resources/FreeRigs/index.html

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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Gunship - Animation Time!

Today's Animation Time features the Gunship Rig.
The gunship glides in and drops down. It then hovers and releases the drop gate. After dropping the gate it shoots upward pauses and then jets off.

Animation Time! - Gunship Rig

Today's Inspiration:
It’s a new world and nobody can tell you that you can’t do something. If you have desire to do it, then just start doing it.

- Dave Johnson
http://devilpig.deviantart.com/
https://twitter.com/Devilpig666

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

Rig - Gunship
http://www.3dfiggins.com/Resources/FreeRigs/index.html

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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Mobot - Animation Time!

Today's Animation Time features the Mobot Rig.
Mobot crouches down and lifts up. Pushing his chest out and head up his body recoils and settles. Once settled he rockets forward with limbs lightly dragging.

Animation Time! - Mobot Rig

Today's Inspiration:
you are able to contribute more with so few strokes

- Deskartesmil on Victor De La Fuente
https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/V%C3%ADctor_de_la_Fuente
http://www.comicartfans.com/comic-artists/victor_de_la_fuente.asp

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

Rig - Mobot
http://www.creativecrash.com/maya/downloads/character-rigs/c/mobot

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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Dragon - Animation Time!

Today's Animation Time features the Dragon Rig.
Head - hangs low, light bounce and tip up and down
Chest - light compress and tilt up and down
Hips - rotate to offset the chest with a medium bounce
Legs - swing up and drag down
Feet - light bounce, overlap and drag from the bounce of the legs
Wings - medium flap with successive movement from inward to out
Tail - whips up and down with extra flap in the tip

Animation Time! - Dragon Rig

Today's Inspiration:
Keep working and stop procrastinating. With work comes wisdom, with wisdom comes skill, with skill comes quality.

- Dirk Erik Schulz
http://themrock.tumblr.com/
http://themrock.deviantart.com/

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

Rig - Dragon
http://www.creativecrash.com/maya/downloads/character-rigs/c/dragon-rig--3

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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Machhar - Animation Time!

Today's Animation Time features the Machhar Rig.
Head - light bounce and tip
Chest - light up and down and back and forth
Abdomen - slight flop in and out
Wings - medium up and down
Front legs - low bounce
Middle legs - light swing and bounce
Back legs - flop and bounce from the flap of the wings

Animation Time! - Machhar Rig

Today's Inspiration:
What I want is to explore my own mind until I find something that was so hidden that it shocks even me.

- Seth Fisher
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seth_Fisher
http://www.floweringnose.com/

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

Rig - Machhar
http://www.creativecrash.com/maya/downloads/character-rigs/c/machhar

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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Kio - Animation Time!

Today's Animation Time features the Kio rig.
Head - light bob and sway side to side with a floppy mouth
Chest - light tip side to side with a bit of raise and lower
Hips - rotate to offset the chest with extra squash and stretch
Arms  and Legs - Dangle downward with successive movement and drag
Wings - flap up and down with a little overlap in the tips

Dumbu - Animation Time!

Today's Animation Time features the Dumbu Rig.
Head - swung down, dips further down then shoots upward
Chest - bent over, compresses further down, then puffs out
Hips - rotate to offset the chest, dip down then fly upward
Legs - bent, light keep alive then drag upward
Feet - rest, then drag upward
Arms - drag down, then shoot upward, leading the movement
Hands - pressed down, light keep alive, then punch upward

Bald Eagle - Animation Time!

Today's Animation Time is a Bald Eagle Flying.
Head - light sway side to side
Chest - puffed out light compress and bounce
Tail - rotates to offset the chest, light bounce and flap with overlap on the feathers
Legs - light bounce and sway side to side
Talons - overlap and drag from the sway of the legs extending into each claw
Wings - light flap with successive movement up and down and overlap on the back feathers

Camera - parented to the chest and rotates around

Animation Time! - Bald Eagle Rig

Today's Inspiration:
It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.

I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

Art is never finished, only abandoned.

- Leonardo da Vinci
http://www.leonardoda-vinci.org/

Drawings of Leonardo da Vinci
https://archive.org/details/drawingsofleonar00leonuoft

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

Rig - Bald Eagle
http://www.creativecrash.com/maya/downloads/character-rigs/c/bald-eagle_rigg

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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