Wolf Project : Updated 21/7/12

Today i will be animating with, 

Wolf Dog

Click here to download it yourself, its made by some user named Paki over on creative clash and is free to use, so all credit for the rig etc goes to that guy. 

Well last week i helped on a short for Galway was a bit of a last minuet thing, kind of got me in the mood to some more animating, so i never really tried to do a animal quadruped before so, since i have nothing much going on at the moment i thought id give it a go.

very early blocking below. 

13/7/12

Im just making it up as i go along, who know's what may happen. I know i dont. 

14/7/12

Blocking

Today i proceeded with more blocking and setting in some hold's and just generally animating straight ahead its my preference i have never been huge into planning some thing out, Although it is a good way to work and i done it a lot this year, I find it more enjoyable just seeing where things take me. So this was saturdays work would say this is still an early blocking + pass.

15/7/12

Blocking + & Initial Splining,

So now that im fairly happy with most of my blocking ive moved to spline, Where i can see how my early block is looking, Then i start to add more hold's tweak and add pose's and refine every thing over and over untill my timing is pleasing to the eye and , so right now im basically adding more character tot he shot. This is where i tend to get carried away with the performances, Although i a have a tone of stuff to clean up on this at the moment.

16/7/12

Spline faze 

Just been doing some more refinements, i done most of this on the 15/7/12. this morning i spent some time trying to change the position where he barks at the hand, it was very stiff, im not entirely happy with it. i cant seem to get the curve in his back that i want, i spent some more time working his paw positions and holds.

Ive been trying to his paws to shift around fairly quick, like a dog would do as he is barking but it wasnt coming out the way i pictured it, i think il try it again once ive finsihed the rest of the scene, perhaps approaching it like eye darts would work. 

I havent done his tial yet, or a facial pass. 

16/7/12

Just been tweaking it a bit today havent really been burning through this little project, Its going fairly slow but im putting that down to this being my first time trying a animal ! So yeah, Its not going to bad i wasn't to happy with the barking area and ive just been fiddling around with it trying to find some thing more appealing, not to happy with it, it seems off to me.