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Week 10 – Face expression

Post author By Jiazhuo Tang
Post date 10th January 2023
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Reference

The images from the The Big Bang Theory

Face Expression 2

Final Version

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Animation Showreel

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Week 10 – Animation of Jump

Post author By Jiazhuo Tang
Post date 15th December 2022
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Version One

Final Version

From the process of block to spline, I made several versions.

In the final version, at the end of the jump, I exaggerated the back-shake, changed the rhythm of the movement and made the timeline longer.

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Week 9 – Animation – Jump (Block)

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Post date 7th December 2022
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Video – Box Planning

First of all, the cube is used as the movement position of the human body.

Animation Jump (Blocking)

Make the Key pose of movement through planning sketches (week 8 mentioned).

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Week 8 – Animation Planning Sketch – Jump

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Post date 29th November 2022
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Reference

Planning

Body Mechanics 5 steps

1.Getting Reference
2.Blocking Key Poses
3.Adding In Betweens
4.Balancing Hips
5.Graph Editor Tweak

Sketches

Planning video

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Week 7 – Continuing the animation of ball walker

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Post date 22nd November 2022
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This blog is about the rig-ball walking movement.

Version One- Blocking

Version Two – Spline

Final Version

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Week 7 – Blend shape 2

This blog is about using blend shape function of a male model of facial expression in Maya.

Process

Image

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Week 6 – Walking planning

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Post date 15th November 2022
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Reference

Those images show the regulation of movement of walking.

walkinng referencing:ALAN BECKER – Animating Walk Cycles – YouTube – a video from Youtube

walking reference:Animation tutorial trailer on Vimeo – a video from Vimeo

Notes

Key poses: In a walk these would be your CONTACT poses.
Breakdowns: The passing position between your KEY POSES.
Extremes: These are the highest and lowest points of the walk.

Attempts

After understanding the rules of walking movement, I tried to make it.

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Week 6 – Paint skin weights & blend shape

Post author By Jiazhuo Tang
Post date 15th November 2022
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This blog is about painting skin weights and blending shape in Maya.

Reference model

Process

Using paint skin weights to adjust the relationship between eyes and mouth.

Shape Editor

Use shape editor to do blend shape to make the model more details and show more characteristics, the eyes, nose, mouth, ears and neck separately.

Rendering Images

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Week 5- Animation – Movement of Ball Sidewalk and Rigging- Box man

Post author By Jiazhuo Tang
Post date 9th November 2022
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This blog is about an animation of a ball to walk and a rigging activity of rigging whole body of a box man.

1.Movement of Ball Sidewalk

Version One

This is the first time my animation sidewalk tried, jumping of the left to right movement is OK, but the overlapping is not good, there is no gravity bounce when the sphere lands.

version 1 – a jump side walk

Version Two

I tried a second time to get the ball to bounce off the ground, but it didn’t work so well on the legs, and there was a problem with the movement of the feet.