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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Simple Bot Walk - Walk a Day

Today's Walk is a Simple Bot Walk.
Ball Root - double bounce, light sway and tilt side to side, and a pinch of squash and stretch
Side Antennae - light bounce
Eyes - droopy, with a little blink, light bounce on the eyebrows
Legs - medium wide steps, swing out and up on the passing position
Feet - flop out and over on the passing position, with overlap and flop on the toes

Animation Time! - Simple Bot

Today's Inspiration:
“My work has a vitality and an ‘I don’t give a damn- try it’ quality,”

“I don’t want you to forget that creativeness, imagination, fantasy have to stay with you. You must stay pepped up on your work- you can’t get along a system alone. The first thing we come up against is sincerity and honesty by which I mean if a thing looks sincere
on the screen, it looks as though it would really work, as though it would really work, as though it existed,…..as though gravity held it down. It looks plausible, feels logical….caricature or exaggeration in drawing is very important.   The public never pays for a good drawing. It pays for an exaggerated effect. By caricature I don’t always mean funny  drawing. If you are going to make a fellow lean over, make him lean over plenty. Go twice as far as you think you can in the drawing and you will always be about right. Make the character do everything he does in a decisive, definite way so that the audience will know what he’s doing. The drawing should be direct, definite, and simple. That means again you must have a clear idea of what you are after because it is hard to make a simple drawing. Harder than to make a jumpled-up drawing
with all the details on it.”

- Woflgang Reitherman
https://50mostinfluentialdisneyanimators.wordpress.com/2011/09/02/14-wolfgang-reitherman/
https://youtu.be/mi9OBhcTZ1U

Program - Maya 2010

Rig - Simple Bot
http://www.creativecrash.com/maya/downloads/character-rigs/c/simple-bot-rig-for-maya

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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Joe Walk - Walk a Day

Today's Walk is a Joe Walk.
Head - overlaps and drags from the movement of the chest, light up and dip down
Chest - open to camera, light twist and compress
Hips - rotate to offset the chest, light circular motion, pushes forward, dips down, pulls back, and then up, twists to allow for the next leg push
Legs - left leg planted down and forward, right lifts off the board, steps down and pushes off the ground
Feet - left foot planted, right foot drags off the board, hits the ground with a little heel flop, peels back off, and lifts up back onto the board
Arms - left arm held out and to the side in front of the body with a little sway side to side, right arm dangles back with a light swing
Hands - left hand spreads and swings out side to side with overlap and drag on the fingers, right hand drags overlapping the movement of the arm and forearm extending into the fingers and thumb