[1 - animation] The Jump - 2 hours

[zirolin]

>>JakalDesign
Thanks!
I recently purchase XSI foundation.
Though I know almost nothing about XSI now,when I get skill and knowledge about XSI,I will want to use your data and create some jump animation

[JakalDesign]

Originally Posted by Thomas

You're in the good way to do that ;) I'll do some tests with your rig with XSI, I'm waiting to see your result. ?o way, XSI rigging abilities are far away from Carrara !

Its nothing too exciting Thomas . I just used the Biped guide to generate a standard Biped rig with the foot roll. Works pretty good for the low poly character you included for the challenge.

[Thomas]

Good choice Zirolin!!

Ok, I'll check it in XSI. I didn't check the animation features yet..

[JakalDesign]

Here is my rough pass on the animation. I still need to retime it and smooth some of the movements out.

jump_rough_pass.mov

[Thomas]

nice job on that! I prefer the second part, the back jump. I think the beginning of the animation is strange, on the start and just before the beginning on the jump over the window.
But, well.. it's a very nice start for a rough pass!

[mon_stdnt]

Nice rough animation, the start is a kind of slow, is probably because is not render. I like the one hand stand, that should look good is it was slow. CAn wait to see it fully render.

[sadot]

little fun ;)
a new character

and the first animation -ned some work- jeje but im at work!!



--------The jump-----------

quicktime .mov (mp4)

[moxstudios]

nice work here, having fun with the Jump,I want to work in my jump to :D

[moxstudios]

here is my jump some legs problems, but thats only for fun

http://www.mox3d.com/animations/mox_jump.mov

[HeavyHanded]

Originally Posted by JakalDesign

I wanted to join in on this challenge but didnt want to use Carrara. So I moved the scene into XSI and fully rigged the character. I am going to start on my jump scene tonight... but for anybody that wishes to use XSI for this challenge I have the project available for download.

The Jump

Hey JackalDesign! Your animation looks pretty good! I have XSI also and I wanted to do animate the scene in XSI. However I've only got XSI 4.2. Is there a way you can save a scene in 4.2, or at least the models in .obj format or dotxsi?

Thanks

[JakalDesign]

hey HeavyHanded,

I tried exporting the scene as a dotXSI but the rig never exports right. So here are the obj files I used to import. I just used a biped guide then had it create a simple biped rig with footroll. The envelope didnt have to be adjusted that much to get it looking good. Good luck!

jump_obj.zip

[HeavyHanded]

Originally Posted by JakalDesign

hey HeavyHanded,

I tried exporting the scene as a dotXSI but the rig never exports right. So here are the obj files I used to import. I just used a biped guide then had it create a simple biped rig with footroll. The envelope didnt have to be adjusted that much to get it looking good. Good luck!

jump_obj.zip

Doumo Arigatou!

[HeavyHanded]

OK...Finally I'm done! Took a lot of planning! Anyway I thumbnailed it on paper then did the animation in XSI 4.2- Thanks for the help JakalDesign!

Anyway here it is...

[sadot]

looks good, you just need to adjust the time

[Cyborg Commando]

Here is my try, it is my first animation.
I tried to make the same jump as the monsters in Far Cry (the ones with guns)
and I wanted to make some nice ending, I hop you like it.

My Jump

BTW
I used Carrara to animate and particleIllusion SE for the effects.

[HeavyHanded]

cyborg: I like it. You did really well with only 2 hours to animate!

[Cyborg Commando]

@HeavyHanded
Thank you, I had a little bit help from this DVD plus I tried to start this jump
like 4 times and always gave up, I still don't really get the bones and animation,
I had a few positions I wanted to do but didn't know how.

[Sardtok]

Well,
here's a little something I did.
I used the manipulators and I blame them for the extremely weird leg movements, like the right knee snapping way out to the right, and notice the weird way the legs are bent during the somersault.
Also, the weird position of the right foot in the middle of the jump.
I haven't done any animation since, well, hmm, January 2005, so might have something to do with that.

Next time I'm doing animating with bone rigs I'm definitely doing it the good old way with just IK and moving the last bone in the chain manually, then cleaning with FK techniques later.

About 1 hour to animate, and another 20 minutes for tweaking timing and tweeners, but mostly just screwing around slowly, trying to get things to look somewhat smooth. ;)
Anyway, I did 3 renders(actually a lot more, but these were the three I decided to keep), one 15 fps Gouraud, with 20 frames motion blur set 100%
I think this render is kind of cool, but I think I did tweener tweaking after rendering it, but I think the screwy easing in and out made for an even weirder dreamy/drugged effect.
Then there are two approximately equal 25 fps PR renders, one with AA set to best, and accuracy at defaults, no motion blur.
The third is the same, but AA set to fast and accuracy set to 4 px for both shadow and objects, and 10 frames of blur at 95% blur,
I think this one turned out pretty nicely.

[KUBEUX]

HELLO! I created this animation in 1 hour. It's short but funny.Plz comment.