Goat Rig

Jay has kindly run my goat through Setup and Face Machine for me. There were a couple of problems with the eyes, but with a bit of tweaking he managed to fix these.

Animation

I have finally started animating for my project but I do not feel I can achieve what I want in the remaining time. I will therefore just concentrate on the beginning of the film where the boy is galloping around on top of the rock, notices the goat and gets the idea that he wants to ride it. I will try to give my animation a slight stop motion influence, as I have never been a fan of the very smooth cg style. This is a playblast for the boy galloping around on the rock. It still needs tweaking but I am happy with it so far.

Group Work: Animation

I was asked by Matt to do some animation for him. This consisted of three shots of his female character performing various actions.

Woman takes a couple of steps, glances to right then kneels down.

Kneeling woman gets egg from hip pocket and places it carefully on the ground.

Kneeling woman picks up egg, removes cloth from under it and places egg carefully back down.

It took me a long time to do these shots and I am not sure whether this is because I have had a break from animating or that this is more realistic than how I like to animate. I am quite happy with the animation and I have found it very useful to do just before I start my own animation, but it took me days longer to do than it should have done and I really need to learn to animate faster.