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Animation Weekly

Animation related things you might have missed in past week

Diwali Holidays and other stuff , made it hard to compile the 3rd Animation Weekly.
Anyway , We have got another cool rig, great how to series for Blender, few great tips , free art book and some useful tools for animators.

 

1. Another banger Spiderverse rig from Sahil of SPOT.

2. Great Study Resource for Quadrupeds locomotion. When it comes to Quads, Brendan’s work is the best there is.

3. Precious Twitter thread and a free Rig by mentor and animator Lucas Ridley.

Top 10 Animation Assignments For beginners

4. Here’s a great opportunity to read the Spider-man Across The Spiderverse Screenplay. It’s as thrilling as the cinema itself.

‘Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse’: Read The Screenplay That Proves 280 Spideys Can’t Be Wrong

5. This is one of the most creative character summon I have seen. Immensely satisfying and appealing choices are made the animator KikoCI

6. Extracting and Studying from GIfs is usually pain. But here’s a handy tool to look gifs frame by frame called GIF Enjoyer by @PharanBrush

7. Here’s a useful thread by @Paulygonn to learn Blender effectively if you don’t want start from famous Blender Donut Tutorial

8. A free Art-of book that has artworks from Films that didn’t get made. Compiled and Shared by Ziggy . It’s a tragic and beautiful project. Almost makes you teary eyed.

9. Another hauntingly beautiful project , animator José has animated all the ghost Pokemons. The dedication and work both are inspiring and admirable.

Take a look.

10. Toon Boon’s interview with Creative Director Sarah Harper about how the magnificent hit show The Lego Monkie Kid was assembled.

Flying Bark Productions on assembling LEGO Monkie Kid’s animated series

11. Gorgeous Animated Illustration by Kan Liu 

12. Rhythmic pixel art attack combo with creative choices and great use of 3 Speeds[Fast Mediums and Slow] . Animated by animator Mariru. [@Miyama_Mariru] always puts up inspiring work.

 

13. The glorious and beautifully lit fan made traversal sequence of Leo from TMNT by animator Lucio 

14. Excellent fan made Tom And Jerry Animation Sequence by South Korean, character animator Jihwan Kim.

He has done unbelievable job of capturing the essence of classic Tom and Jerry shorts in 3D.

Shot Breakdown

 

That’s All Folks

Here’s the link to Animation Weekly 2  and here’s link to the latest Keys and Breakdowns : Tom and Jerry Shot

]]> https://bramhaa.com/animation-weekly-3/feed/ 0 Animation Keys And Breakdowns 3 https://bramhaa.com/animation-keys-and-breakdowns-3/ https://bramhaa.com/animation-keys-and-breakdowns-3/#respond Wed, 29 Nov 2023 10:46:27 +0000 https://bramhaa.com/?p=3182 This shot is part of the excellent fan made Tom And Jerry Animation Sequence by South Korean, character animator Jihwan Kim. He has done unbelievable job of capturing the essence of classic Tom and Jerry shorts in 3D.

You can watch the entire sequence here.

And it’s breakdown by Jihwan himself here.

Now the section that I have picked is of 64 frames. It has 12 keys and 10 breakdowns. The reason I picked more keys than breakdowns is because of the fast paced beats, some beats have the spontaneity of straight ahead animation. It means some frames become crucial even if they are not that far apart. It’s beautiful.

How The Rough X-Sheet might look like

Shot with Keyframes only

Shot with Keyframes and Breakdowns

Final Shot with all the in-between frames

 

All The Keys and Breakdowns

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Animation related things you might have missed in past week

We have got plenty of good stuff this week. Cool rigs, Cool tips and Cooler animation shots

  1. Starting with this gorgeous shot by Gunes Gocmen

“Fighting Girl” Personel Animation Work from Gunes Gocmen on Vimeo.

 

2. Insightful Blockout of Khri’s Observatory from Jedi Survivor by Simon @LD_Sandersen

3. Castlevania Nocturne Scenes by @Misozune

4. Top 3 Winners Agora Animation Challenge : “TALENT SHOW”

5. Free Blender rigs of Five Nights at Freeddys by Juan Guillermo Cruz [@jgcruz3d]

 

6.Top 10 Animation Reel Tips by Lucas Ridley

7. Helpful Maya Camera Rig by Raphael [@RaphaelCan1]
https://x.com/RaphaelCan1/status/1717220726376137085?s=20

8. Ryan Rig for blender by @CaehLyn . It will come in handy for body mechanics shots

Ryan Free Blender Rig
Ryan Free Blender rig

Get the Ryan Rig Here

 

9. Zelda casting a cracking spell , exquisite #vfx work @Orichan0401

10. Cool #TMNT #MutantMayhem Early Character exploration Traversal Test by Alaa Eddin Afifeh, Senior Animator at Wetafx
https://vimeo.com/878779785

TMNT_Test03 from Alaa Eddin Afifeh on Vimeo.

11. Appealing Spiderverse Spiderman Free Maya rig by Sahil Banik

Miles Spiderman Maya Rig
Miles Spider-Man Maya Rig
Miles Spiderverse Free Maya Rig
Miles Spiderverse Maya Rig

Get The Rig Here

12. Insightful Animation Tips : Why Your Animation Isn’t Meeting Feature Film Standards by Lupin House @house_lupin

  1.  The Subtlety of Acting
  2.  Overdoing the Basics
  3.  Skipping the ‘Polish’ Phase
  4. Unconsciously Ignoring The Physics
  5.  Ignoring the Details

Read More about these five in detail here

13. Tomorrow War Inspired Creature Rig by Syed Hassam on Flipped Normals Market place.
The film had the coolest intimidating creatures with jaw dropping locomotion animation.

This is your chance to show off your creature skills

The Tomorrow War Creature Rig
The Tomorrow War Creature Rig

Get The Maya Rig Here

That’s All Folks

]]> https://bramhaa.com/animation-weekly-2/feed/ 0 Animation Keys And Breakdowns 2 https://bramhaa.com/animation-keys-and-breakdowns-2/ https://bramhaa.com/animation-keys-and-breakdowns-2/#respond Thu, 26 Oct 2023 10:12:51 +0000 https://bramhaa.com/?p=3138 This is 74 frames shot is from the Puss in Boots: The Last Wish movie. Here we are going to look at the Keyframes and Breakdowns of the shot.

10 Keyframes, 12 Primary Breakdowns

 

Keys and Breakdowns


Shot with Keyframes only

Shot with Keyframes and Breakdowns

Final Shot with all the inbetween frames

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Keys and Breakdowns

Shot with Keyframes only

Shot with Keyframes and Breakdowns

Final Shot with all the inbetween frames

 

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Animation Weekly

Animation related things you might have missed in past week

  1. Alan Martin’s animation reel for @PaleoPines
    It’s buzzing with full of life and appeal.
    https://x.com/AlanMartin75/status/1714536322461745172?s=20

2. Crazy Zombie Walks by @watchmeanimate that encourage to study Overlap and lead- follow relationships


https://x.com/watchmeanimate/status/1714343685846958261?s=20

 

3. Wild and exciting demo launch trailer of Don’t Scream with unique game mechanics by @playDontScream

 

 

4. Maya Tool: FD Tracking Camera v.2 that makes Camera functions easier by Filippo Dattola[@_flys_]

https://twitter.com/_flys_/status/1714247366251860098

 

5. Fun reference process of #AcrossTheSpiderverse for Spot shot by Nideep Varghese @Nideep_V


https://x.com/Nideep_V/status/1713088174778687721?s=20

 

6. Unique and appealing personality walks from The Amazing Digital Circus by @glitch_prod
PS. Don’t forget to watch the intriguing pilot episode FREE on YouTube

https://x.com/glitch_prod/status/1715080383375548711?s=20

 

7. Free 358 pages of Art Of Nimona were released by Netflix. Here’s the pdf compiled by generous Ariana Taller @RedHotHead


https://x.com/RedHotHead_/status/1712604059159462047?s=20

 

8. Exciting Trailer of Kaiju No 8

 

9. Sir Wade’s [@SirWadeFX] 3D Animation Community Challenge!!
Lots and lots of prizes to win. You get to start with 2 cool Maya rigs.

 

10. Adorable Free Rig of Lupin House [@house_lupin]


https://x.com/house_lupin/status/1709870670274756823?s=20

 

 

11. Another exquisite versatile Maya rig by @KielFiggins
Queen Arthur


https://x.com/KielFiggins/status/1713916547779957009?s=20

 

That’s all folks!!! See you next week

 

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In this frame by frame by analysis we go over following things

  • Line of Action
    Squash And Stretch
    Clear Poses
    Composition
    Lead Follow Relationship
    Weight Shifts
    Follow-through, Drag and Settle
    3 Speeds

Line of Action
It’s an imaginary line that passes through head-spine-limbs, forming different interesting shapes like C-Curve
Reverse C, S curve, Y Curve. It doesn’t always have to pass through head, opposing limbs also make Line of Action possible. It’s one those things when you learn to see it, you keep noticing it everywhere. The LOA helps sculpting the great poses.

In this shot, I have highlighted Line of Action, their various shapes. When LOA goes from C to S or C to reverse it creates great contrast.

Squash & Stretch
The same principle of Squash and Stretch of Ball Bounce can be applied to the body. In this shot You can clearly see Squash and Stretch in the body because of Line of Action.

Straight vs Curve (or Simple vs Complex)
To make poses appealing and to give them some flow. Straight Against Curve Principle is often used. In this shot I have annotated that in blue on the specific frame where it really stood out.

Clear Poses
What I love about this shot is the conscious effort to create clear poses. When character is bulky, making clear poses specially clear silhouettes becomes challenging. In this shot, for crucial moments clear poses have sculpted cleverly.

Composition
One of the thing in Body Mechanics shots is that not only you have to get the intensity right but you have to make sure you can see full body in motion. While trying to achieve both sometimes the composition , specifically the camera often it gets ignored. In this shot, Rule of 3’rds is being followed. The character purposely is not at center. In order to give character more presence, the camera is placed slight below the horizon. And to create more intensity the Camera is tilted at the crucial moment. It creates dynamic diagonal space.
The camera shake is added for the impact. It enhance the feel of weight.

Lead Follow Relationship
Nothing in the body or face happens at the same time, something leads another. It’s like chain of Lead-Follow. It has to be conscious decision from the animator, that’s why it’s more than just offsetting keys to achieve overlap in the body. It needs to be planned ahead.

One of the great highlight of this shot is how the lead follow relationship has been executed throughout. At different times different parts lead the action.

Follow-through, Drag and Settle

Every time arms are not doing something with intent, for body with motion they present good opportunity for Follow-through and Drag. It also creates beautiful arcs.
You can see the same in this shot as well.

When character in motion comes to halt, The Settle of entire body comes in to the picture. Not only it needs good amount frames planned in advance, you also have to consider the momentum.

In this shot , in the end characters takes a little step back to balance the whole motion. The limbs drag and settle in the end.

Weight Shifts
If body of mass is not properly distributed around the Center of Gravity of Body, the character would fall over.

To achieve that balance in pose the Weight Shifts, tiny foot lifts, slips are necessary. In this shot, I have marked the beats where weight shift is happening with arrows.

3 Speeds
I learned from Pixar Animator Victor Navone that In order to bring rhythm into your shots, You need a good combination of 3 Speeds : Fast Speed – Medium Speed – Slow Speed.
It’s also one of those things once you learn the concept, you always notice it everywhere. Sometimes you can make up sounds in your mind to map out the rhythm of the shot.

For this shot I have highlighted where Fast, Medium and Slow beats begin just above the 3 Speeds Gauge. In that Circle, there are different sized circles based on the speed of beat. Just a rough visual representation
to see how the rhythm feels.

 

If you liked this animation study, You might like this post as well ; 5 Building Blocks for Good Acting In Animation 

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If you haven’t already read through those cross over volumes of Batman and Ninja Turtles, it’s still not too late. They are so much fun and contain lots of spectacular ninja action!!!

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Spider-Man into The Spider-Verse is the glorious example of what happens when story and storyteller, both embrace the animation medium wholeheartedly! Its eminent lush visuals is just a tip of the iceberg, the film has strong emotionally driven narrative like every legendary Spider-Man story needs to have.

Watch Spider-Verse on a huge screen possible, It’s an unforgettable experience that you would want to go through again and again.

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Professional Animator Kenny Roy (who once also was one of the mentors for the Animation Mentor Online School) had created online subscription service where he uploaded tons and tons of animation lectures monthly for many years, now he has made all those lectures available on YouTube for FREE!!!

Kenny is definitely one of the best mentors you can have. His constant insistence on strengthening the animation workflow and his concepts like Tempo have helped me a lot over the years.

There’s some absolutely killer stuff in those lectures, some really good and practical reel advise. Basically if you feel like your animation skills are not improving , you’re stuck in some bizarre phase where your work lacks professional touch, or just doesn’t have that feel that you see in other animator’s works that leave you in awe, I promise that these 100+ hrs of content is going to push your skills to the next level!! They are going to help you introduced the weight that’s missing in your animation and that extra flair that we constantly aim for.

You can head over here to watch all those lectures : Kenny Roy Free Video Animation Lectures

And Don’t forget to say thanks to Kenny!!!

 

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