Sessions with James #2 - Animation with the Ultimate Bony Rig.

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This week we looked at using the bony rig to create a short animation showing the rig sitting down. We had a choice of either shooting reference to use or we could find reference online and use that as our base for our animation. I chose to use one of Kevin Parry's sitting sequences to animate, this being the 'Silent Film Star sitting sequence (see video below).

With this reference I looked at blocking out the key poses for the short; making sure to set the time slider tangents to flat and stepped in the animation settings, I also chose to set the frames to 25fps. For this I had about 22 key poses (contact points) to position using the bony rig (not all key poses are marked out in the reference footage as I had to make some adjustments to the poses the rig would transition through). 

Below are the time slider settings and some the key poses for the sitting sequence.

Animation with the Ultimate... by Jasmine Masters


Reference Footage:


Key Poses (14):

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