Simple Fish - Animation Time!

Today's Animation Time features the Simple Fish Rig.
Head - leads the movement, light tilt down and upward with a little side to side sway
Body - light up and down with a little tilt and weave side to side
Fins - pump up and down
Tail - slight swing side to side

Animation Time! - Simple Fish Rig

Today's Inspiration:
I'm a firm believer in that the day you feel you're the best you can be, you stop growing and you're never going to get better, so always be on edge and always feel, I can do better.

- Marc Silvestri
http://marcsilvestriart.com/
https://twitter.com/Marc_Silvestri

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

Rig - Simple Fish
http://www.creativecrash.com/maya/downloads/character-rigs/c/simple-fish-rig

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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The Box - Animation Time!

Today's Animation Time features the Johnny The Box Rig.
Top - light tilt forward and flop down
Middle - extra squash and stretch overlapping from the movement of the top
Bottom - drags back and flops down with light jumping steps

Animation Time! - Johnny The Box Rig

Today's Inspiration:
We want a vernacular in art. No mere verbal or formal agreement, or dead level of uniformity but that comprehensive and harmonizing unity with individual variety which can be developed among people politically and socially free.

- Walter Crane
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Crane

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

Rig - Johnny The Box
http://www.creativecrash.com/maya/downloads/character-rigs/c/johnny-the-box

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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Bork - Animation Time!

Today's Animation Time features the Bork Rig.
Head - light sway and bobble side to side
Chest - puffed out, light twist to allow for the next forward arm movement
Hips - dipped down, rotate to offset the chest and allow for the next step
Legs - medium wide gait, low steps
Feet - drag back on the passing position, land with a little overlap on the toes
Arms - pressed down, medium low forward movements
Hands - pressed against the ground, drag back on the passing position land with a little overlap in the fingers and thumbs