Skinning & Rigging Notes W1I don't want to waste paper, and since I don't have as many watchers as I used to, I doubt anyone will care if I take my class notes here. Notes will be in italics.Thankfully, animators aren't riggers, we're required to know how to make basic rigs, but it's not specifically our job. A BAD rig has joints in the wrong places, a bad rig may break the character model, a bad rig does not accommodate the level of flexibility required for animation. A GOOD rig has maximum flexibility, and minimal counter animation (ex. when animating hips, head turns to match hip animation, requiring animator to animate the head staying still.) I would like to go home now and hang out with my girlfriend; Kim... She's pretty awesome.... and she likes to play video games. I actually got her into Red vs. Blue, which is a first for me. She's just great... she's cute, and funny, she's smart, sexy, and she has her geeky moments, which is cool. We have a lot of common ground, but not so much it's creepy. She's 3 years older than me, but it's not a big deal. I'm really enjoying the breathing room that comes with a college relationship, you don't have parents breathing down your back 24-7... Shit, I got sidetracked.... back to class. We're looking at monkeys... A child can only have one parent, but a parent can have as many children as you want. A child can move freely as it wishes, a parent can also move freely, but it's children will follow. Children inherit translation, rotation, and scale from their parents, unless constraints are applied. FK= Forward Kinematics, IK= Inverse Kinematics Break time! Back from break! Sweet! I have 600 dollars coming to me from the school! I am totally buying the Sims 3 and Watchmen when that comes out on Blu-ray next week. That director's cut of Watchmen is awesome! Anyways.... pivot points must be in the right place, if a joint moves in a place it's not supposed to, it must be fixed. Skinning is... fuck... I lost concentration. But it looks neat. I need a new cell phone. I've had mine for a long time, I've never dropped it, and yet, my screen flickers and shuts off now and then, my keys are cracked, it won't vibrate, it shuts off on it's own once in a while, it doesn't recognize my sim card randomly, and just a few weeks ago the reciever stopped working. I think I may finally get an iPhone... I could use the GPS. My parents both have iPhones, and I know they don't use 90% of the settings on theirs... I know I would make good use of one. HOLY SHIT WE GOT OUT OF CLASS EARLY! AWESOMENESS! |
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