Animation Time! - Victor Hart Rig

Today's Inspiration:
I like to go a cafe and draw people to help me build up a variety of designs in my memory. It’s nice because you get away from distractions and it forces you to think. Everyone looks different so there’s always a new subject.

- Garrett Hanna
http://gh-graphics.blogspot.com/
http://gh-graphics.tumblr.com/

Jarrod Showers -
http://www.griffonstorm.com/

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

Rig - Victor Hart
http://www.creativecrash.com/maya/downloads/character-rigs/c/victor-hart-character-rig-v2/feature_requests#tabs

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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Sticky - Animation Time!

Today's Animation Time features the Sticky Rig.
Head - focused upward, light drag and stick out
Chest - compresses, stretches out, then relaxes
Hips - crouch down, jump up and dangle
Legs - press and push off the wall, then hang down
Feet - slip, then press off the wall, leap up and drop down with overlap in the toes
Arms - push off the platform, reach up and grab the next
Hands - overlap and drag from the swing of the arms and  forearms, reach out and grab the platform above with drag in the fingers

Animation Time! - Sticky Rig

Today's Inspiration:
I don't see myself as an artist, painter but more as a designer
- Patrick Nagel

simplifying, working to get more across with fewer elements
- Elena Millie on Patrick Nagel

He was a driven man who always knew what he wanted
- Jennifer Dumas on Patrick Nagel (wife)

- Patrick Nagel
http://www.patricknagel.com/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Nagel

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

Rig - Sticky
http://www.creativecrash.com/maya/downloads/character-rigs/c/sticky

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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Hammer Head - Animation Time!

Today's Animation Time features the Hammer Head Rig.
Head - light raise and lower with a little tilt side to side
Chest - raises and puffs with successive movement, a little twist and sway side to side
Tail - whips back and forth with extra overlap and drag
Fins - light forward strokes
Dorsal Fin - slight tilt and wave side to side