- Prerequisets -
- .... You know how to navigate library, load a character, set up a render and set document window size.
- ..... This is covered in in this tut here.
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| Lets get set up by loading a figure - setting the light, camera and document window to 400x400 |
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- Lets animate her head to do a road crossing check
- "look right, look left, look right again, cross safely" - This may vary dependng on what part of the world you live in.
- So our animation will be like this
- Frames 1-5 look ahead
- Frames 6-10 turn head, and neck, to the right.
- Frames 11-15 Hold it
- Frames 16 -25 Turn head, and neck to theleft
- Frames 25-30 Hold it
- Frames 30 - 35 - Turn head and neck (quicly) to the right again.
- Frames 36 - 40 - hold it
- Frames 41- 45 Turn head and neck to front and cross the road.
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- (1) Set the maximun number of frames to 45
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- Move to Frame 5 and add a key frame (we will keep her head steady for 5 frames)
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- Now step to frame 10 and add a key frame (this where her head will stop turning right)
- Adjust her head and neck to turn right - There are movement limits on this character's parts.
- The pic belopw is a composite
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- Step to frame 15 and create an new keyframe - this keeps head looking right for 5 frames.
- Step to frame 25 and create a new keyframe - now we are going to look to the left.
- Adjust her head and neck to look left - like the pic below.
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- Step to frame 30 and add another keyframe - this will hold her head left for 5 frames.
- Step to frame 35, add anothe keyframe and turn her head to the right again - This will move her head quickly back to the right
- Step to frame 40 , add another keyframe - this will hold her head right for left for 5 frames.
- Step to frame 45, add another keyframe and turn her head forward.
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- Lets get set up to do some rendering.
- Set up our render dimensions
- This doesn't appear to carry over into our movie settings.
- So needs to be set up agin in our Movie settings.
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- Lets get set up to make our animation .
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- Image file sizes vary - This one is ~ 115KB/frame
- Uncompresed AVI files are very large 10-30 MB second depending whats in the pic
- Flash files are low quality however they are also very small - in this case 93KB
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- Exercise - Create a flash animation of a different character winking their left eye.
- with an image size of 400x400
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| Thanks for looking and feedback is welcome, Richard. |
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