Editing Your Animation in Premiere

With any luck most of you will now be thinking about puting your animations together. Here is a link to a tutorial for getting started with Adobe Premiere for those of you who are new to the program

Click here to download it

Marking Allocations

Hello everyone! Hope you had a good Easter...

You may find it useful to take a look at the way that your animations will be graded. Below are the areas in which you will be marked and also the percentage for each.

Preparation - 10%

Sophistication of Modelling - 20%

Sophistication of Animation - 30%

Lighting/Cameras/Special Effects - 10%

Materials - 10%

Creativity and Originality - 20%

More advanced Boning and Skinning Techniques

Hey everyone some of you may want to work with bones in much more depth so here are some very usefull resources to help you on your way:

---~Simple Rigging~---
Thanks to Richard Davidson for finding these links

Using bones to animate a leg
Boning the skeleton

2 legged spider
2 legged spider video

Complete Spider
Complete Spider pt2

---~Advanced Rigging~---
Please note: these tutorials are advanced, you will be doing more of this stuff in the third year. Remember that the use of bones is not essential for this module so remember to be concious of the time you spend learning how to use them.

http://www.be-orange.co.uk/tutorials/3D
You will need to download lowPolyMan.obj to complete these tutorials

Character Rigging pt 1
Character Rigging pt 2
Character Rigging pt 3
Character Rigging pt 4
Character Rigging pt 5
Character Rigging pt 6

Applying the Biped

Introduction To Bones

http://www.be-orange.co.uk/tutorials/3D
Follow th above link and download: Bones.zip and torso.obj you will need these to go through the tutorial for riging a simple torso.

Reactor Notes

Hello everyone...

The Reactor note are now available for download: http://www.be-orange.co.uk/tutorials/3D

Morpher Lecture Notes

Hey Everyone, the written notes for the Morpher Modifier are now available to download

http://www.be-orange.co.uk/tutorials/3D

Reactor

Reactor is the Physics Engine which is pre-built into 3D S Max.

With it we can effortlessly create collisions between solid ojects without the pain of keyframing every small movement or rotation.

http://www.be-orange.co.uk/tutorials/3D
Follow the link and downdload "MaxBowl.zip"
You will need this for the class excersize.

when you feel a little more confident with this try your hand at this tutorial: http://www.republicofcode.com/tutorials/3ds/collision_reactor/ This will intruduce you to using the "Reactor Spring" facility also.