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I decided to take the spino from my last image and animate him. Looking back I would have changed a few things: I would have added a building in the alley so there wasn't that weird blank space in between the buildings, and I would have fixed the last few frames; the head makes a funny move and I would have added a little belly jiggle at the very end.

But I do like how it came out in the end. The neck movements came out much better than anticipated.

So why is the prey naked? Well, technical difficulties. Daz is funny about parented items. The man is 'parented', or stuck, to the spino's head. As the head moves, he moves. But since he's parented, it must throw something out of whack because any clothing item doesn't properly fit anymore. If I unparent him, the clothes fit fine but he no longer follows the head (unless I do some serious fixes to follow the head exactly). So rather than mess with it too much, I just took off the shirt. There was hair too, but the hair adds time to the render, and since you only see him for a second I didn't think I should waste the time.

Still, very successful. I started on it yesterday, finished the animation yesterday, and rendered today. Sure, that's fast, but I put aside homework to do so. Maybe not the best choice Ive ever made...

Oh well, enjoy! I managed to make the size a little bigger than some of my previous ones. I plan on getting a tower computer (hopefully before next year), so animations will be more possible.

One question I had: is the moving camera ok? Moving the camera like this helped me sell the whole "Its Alive!" thing, whereas a still camera would catch body parts that weren't moving. But the moving camera can be distracting. What do you guys think of it?

Description
I decided to take the spino from my last image and animate him. Looking back I would have changed a few things: I would have added a building in the alley so there wasn't that weird blank space in between the buildings, and I would have fixed the last few frames; the head makes a funny move and I would have added a little belly jiggle at the very end.

But I do like how it came out in the end. The neck movements came out much better than anticipated.

So why is the prey naked? Well, technical difficulties. Daz is funny about parented items. The man is 'parented', or stuck, to the spino's head. As the head moves, he moves. But since he's parented, it must throw something out of whack because any clothing item doesn't properly fit anymore. If I unparent him, the clothes fit fine but he no longer follows the head (unless I do some serious fixes to follow the head exactly). So rather than mess with it too much, I just took off the shirt. There was hair too, but the hair adds time to the render, and since you only see him for a second I didn't think I should waste the time.

Still, very successful. I started on it yesterday, finished the animation yesterday, and rendered today. Sure, that's fast, but I put aside homework to do so. Maybe not the best choice Ive ever made...

Oh well, enjoy! I managed to make the size a little bigger than some of my previous ones. I plan on getting a tower computer (hopefully before next year), so animations will be more possible.

One question I had: is the moving camera ok? Moving the camera like this helped me sell the whole "Its Alive!" thing, whereas a still camera would catch body parts that weren't moving. But the moving camera can be distracting. What do you guys think of it?