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“Cameron Hood has been teaching
with Gnomon for over four years, during
which time he has trained scores of students and professionals.
His
professional experience as both a traditional and digital
character animator
has allowed him to pass on invaluable tips, tricks, tools
and approach.”
- Alex Alvarez
Director, Gnomon
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The art of character animation
is about telling story through acting. This lecture covers
the setup of a two-character scene that includes a simple character,
with few keyable attributes, and a complex character with many
keyable attributes. We will approach setting major key poses,
moving holds, extremes, overlap and contact positions together
with adding and freeing tangent weight on function-curves.
Inbetweens are also used to control the contrast and spacing
of movement in our animation. The end result is a fully realized
scene that is believable and sophisticated.
Product Code: CHA03
Focusing on Story
Setting-up Poses
Hiding Keys
Moving Holds
Contact Positions
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Adjust Timing and Spacing
Overlapping Action and Weight
Using the Graph Editor
F-Curve Tangent Weights |
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Introduction
02: Getting Started
03: Storytelling Poses
04: Homing Positions
05: Timing and Spacing
06: Simple Shapes
07: Contacts
08: Overlap
09: Tie it Down
10: Credits
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clip is 640x480 the actual movie size is 720x480 with
higher quality compression. View the stills to the right
to see the actual resolution.
Cameron is currently working for Dreamworks Feature
Animation. Formerly a senior Character Animator at Sony Pictures Imageworks.
Credits include: Sharktale, Sinbad, Stuart Little
2, The Road to El Dorado and The Prince of Egypt.
Cameron has over two years of experience teaching character animation
at the Gnomon School, as well as lecturing at the Dreamworks Feature
Animation training department. Cameron is a graduate of Sheridan College’s
animation program.
Character Animation 1: Fundamentals
Character Animation 2: Animating
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