Animation Time! - Skeleton King Rig

Today's Inspiration:
That's My Character!
Everyone who has worked on a picture will feel that he made the personal contribution that caused the cartoon character to come alive on screen. ... "Well, I know he's my character because he's me; I did him!"... to all of them, he is their character! This is as it should be. Unless everyone feels this closeness to the end product, the dedication will not be there and the necessary care will not be taken to insure that the end result will be the finest anyone can do.

- Frank and Ollie
The Illusion of Life
http://www.frankanollie.com/
http://www.amazon.com/The-Illusion-Life-Disney-Animation/dp/0786860707

Rescuers Pencil Test
https://youtu.be/sHas4RiBOWE

Program - Maya 2014

Rig - Skeleton King Dota 2
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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Warlock Golem Walk - Walk a Day

Today's Walk is a Warlock Golem Walk.
Head - light tilt and sway side to side, with overlap and drag on the chains
Chest - bent over, light sway and compress side to side
Hips - rotate to offset the chest and allow for the next step
Legs - low small steps
Feet - drag back on the passing position, land with a little successive toe flop
Arms - prop the chest up, low small forward movements
Hands - knuckles press against the ground. drag back on the passing position, land with a bit of finger compression and delay in the thumb
Tail - medium successive swish and sway side to side

Animation Time! - Warlock Golem Rig

Today's Inspiration:
A Drawing is both a representation of inner life and a mere picture. In the past, original sketches used to merge into the final work. Today, we look at them just as if we were listening to a beautiful single note within a symphony. Isolating this note is a way of giving it the credit for being unique particular.

- Moebius
http://www.miyazaki-moebius.com/
http://www.moebius.fr/

Of course I believe that other worlds exist. If they didn't, life wouldn't be interesting. It's like love: you can't see it but it exists - simply because you believe it. It's just a matter of believing.

- Miyazaki
http://www.miyazaki-moebius.com/
http://www.ghibli.jp/

Program - Maya 2014

Rig - Warlock Golem Dota2
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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Chip Walk - Walk a Day

Today's Walk is a Chip Walk.
Head - light tilt and sway side to side
Chest - puffed out with extra twist and compress side to side
Hips - rotate to offset the chest and allow for the next step, with extra tilt and raise side to side
Legs - low medium steps
Feet - drag back on the passing position land with a little flop
Arms - held up light sway
Hands - pointed finger shakes, overlapping the movement of the forearms extending into the fingers and thumbs

Animation Time! - Chip Rig

Today's Inspiration:
Drawing / acting is a lifetime adventure. There is no "formula" for becoming a proficient artist.It is just a lifetime of search and discovery. Teachers can only hint at some direction- the artist
has to latch on to some personal method of finding and applying the facts for himself. My highest wish is that all of you will continue to develop your own means of expressing yourselves as performers.

Trying to reach a "goal" is not so much narrowing down to a fine point as it is opening up to a wider range of realization. You concentrate your efforts only by broadening your knowledge and
understanding and skill.

- Walt Stanchfield
http://www.amazon.com/Drawn-Life-Classes-Stanchfield-Lectures/dp/0240811070/ref=pd_bxgy_14_img_y
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0821990/

Program - Maya 2010

Rig - Chip
http://www.creativecrash.com/maya/downloads/character-rigs/c/chip

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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