Screencast-O-Matic - great tool for recording feedback for your students.

Thanks to JD Haas for sharing! Check out the tool here

Screencast-O-Matic

Share your thoughts and experiences with the tool in the comments.

Introducing new class

ANM_499_19: Special Topics: Human and Animal Locomotion

Students will learn most types of animal and human locomotion: walk, run, trot, gallop, lizard crawl, bird walk and run.

We'll start with cycles and then will learn to build NON-cycle locomotion, most of which will be adapted to uneven terrain. 

Quite often an Animator has to animate a character, moving in the forest, turning left and right, dodging the trees, riding a horse over uneven ground. 

This class will teach all of these types.

Take a look at this link, demonstrating results from the class we had. Students had various levels of readiness and the clips represent sort of middle section.

Come along, take this class in the Fall 2014.  Learn those skills, you'll need it. It's good for Demo Reel, good for feeling safe picking up great many shots.

To have a glimpse of what this class will cover, please visit my online course on Udemy, where you can preview some of the videos for free or take the class. Send me email to chocholosa@gmail.com and ask for a discount coupon, I'll give you 50%, if you are AAU students.

See you there.
PS

Why Bungie spent so long fine-tuning Halo's plasma rifle

Great talk by Jamie Griesemer on weapon tuning in Halo

Welcome to the Start of Spring 2013

Welcome everyone. This blog is a location for animation instructors to share information, ask questions, and get support from their fellow instructors.

If you have any students needing additional help or feedback, have them make an appointment with me or just tell them to come by during drop-in hours. My office hours this term are:

Mon           8:30-11:30a / 3-4p (drop in)
Tue/Wed    3-5p (by appointment)


180 New Montgomery st. Rm. 308b, Phone: 415-618-3854

Have a great term.

Dave

bhGhost - love this tool

Check it out if you haven't seen it already.


Available for download HERE

Morpheus 2.0 on Kickstarter!

Check it out HERE

Spread the word and support this great project.

AnimationPhysics.com

Not sure if you all know this site, but if you, like me, feel like a broken record when you see a maya rig lift one leg up while keeping the pelvis stationary, send your students to animationphysics.com

In particular, there's a great article on the physics of balance and weight shift that does a great job of breaking it down.