The challenge:
Animating a human character from head to toe with only 2D vector art that can be posed in any direction with just one bone rig with no animated point displacement, and without the use of any scripts.
I've just started animating it so it's not very long but so far so good and I see no reason why it would not work for the entire animation.
Took many tries and attempts to get it to work but it was worth the effort. Now that I have one done to rig up another will be simple as rigging any character for just one pose and would only take a small percentage more time to get it to move with a 360 degree range. This technique will save me a ton of time animating.
http://vimeo.com/7192111
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Karate guy takes opponents in any direction (WIP)
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For this kind of thing I think you can get away with 5 views. Maybe even 3:
FRONT 3/4
PROFILE
BACK 3/4
(You can flip the views to make a full rotation.)
You could add straight on FRONT and BACK views if you want to.
Otherwise, you can use the same hands and heads for the FRONT and FRONT 3/4 views, same with the BACK 3/4 and BACK views.
Then just switch between those views.
You could even perhaps leave out the PROFILE view entirely, but you might want to keep it in if you really need him looking 90 degrees straight, or to make the turns smoother.
FRONT 3/4
PROFILE
BACK 3/4
(You can flip the views to make a full rotation.)
You could add straight on FRONT and BACK views if you want to.
Otherwise, you can use the same hands and heads for the FRONT and FRONT 3/4 views, same with the BACK 3/4 and BACK views.
Then just switch between those views.
You could even perhaps leave out the PROFILE view entirely, but you might want to keep it in if you really need him looking 90 degrees straight, or to make the turns smoother.
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Thanks for explanation...sounds pretty simple actually. Of course the problem with flipping is that you can't interpolate the points. It does this weird Paper Mario type turnaround. I end up reshaping to match the flipped view (tedious!).super8mm wrote:I have a total of 8 sides with 3 that are flipped, the profile view, back profile, facing profile are flipped so that makes 3 + facing and back for a total of 5.
I'm not sure, although I find it hard to believe someone hasn't done it. Yours is certainly comprehesive. Genete suggested the opposite, namely:I'm just wondering if using one bone rig for all 8 sides is something I innovated or has it already been done?
Multiple skeletons in same switch layer
Do you think you could post a slow-motion version so we can see the changes better?
Heh, now you have to tell us why he called you that...DarthFurby wrote:One guy in the office nicknamed me Bruce Lee, but not because I know Karate or anything like that.
Thanks for explanation...sounds pretty simple actually. Of course the problem with flipping is that you can't interpolate the points. It does this weird Paper Mario type turnaround. I end up reshaping to match the flipped view (tedious!).
The flipping is only done at frame zero as a shortcut to building a mirror side of a character. I use no interpolation of points as part of the animation only bone manipulation.
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Kind of anticlimactic, but Bruce and I have the same last name. Of course, sometimes I'll go "Wataaah!" so maybe that helped cement the nick.neeters_guy wrote:Heh, now you have to tell us why he called you that...DarthFurby wrote:One guy in the office nicknamed me Bruce Lee, but not because I know Karate or anything like that.