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Published: 2013-04-02 12:50:29 +0000 UTC; Views: 6035; Favourites: 38; Downloads: 1010
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experimenting with CAT rigging..61 frames @ 800x400 pixels
total render time: 23 min 13 sec
program used:
3ds max
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he also have really small arms which makes the feets even bigger ! ^^
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i certainly hope he will
thank you
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There is good anticipation to the jump and it works for the most part but I would add about 5 more hold frames when the character gets to the bottom part of the anticipation to make sure it reads easier for the audience.
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thank you very much for the feedback
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Your quite welcome I am quite glad to help my fellow animator to help improve animations of fellow animators.
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Not only do you create simply "beautiful" models, but you constantly work on other aspects of your art as well!!! 
Your are certainly "extremely gifted". Thank you for sharing your work with us here!!
Hasta!!
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aww.. thanks a lot for the awesome compliment, babes.. i really love my hobby
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looking good. you need to add some controllers to the whiskers and clavs i think
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thank you.. well this is my first rig using the CAT rigging system, and my 3th rig total.. so i dont think it is a good idea to make things to complicated yet.. you know, start at the beginning and not the end..
what are clavs btw ?
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generally a rig has 4 joints in the arm (not including the hands): clavicle, shoulder, eblow and wrist. If you touch your back you have some large plates that move when you rotate your shoulders. we simulate those with a joint, and that will stop the stiffness in the shoulders as you animate.
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ah i see.. well i dont think thats a good idea yet.. lets start with only one joint and see if i can make that bend like i want it to bend.. after that i can add more joints in the arm..
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not bad, you're getting the hang of it more and more
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help me or help that catbunny thing ?
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The rigging and such?
For either?
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well i just need practice.. i dont know how you can hep with that
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Awesome job on animating the weight! It looks like something weird is happening around the ankles though.
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thank you.. just curious ? why do you point out the obvious and not give any solutions ? do you think i didnt see that or something ? there is actually a lot more wrong with the animation.. look at the arm pits how they flatten when they rotated.. look at the jerking effect on the arm in the end of the animation.. i can see all those things too.. pointing out the obvious never helped anyone.. what we need is solution to fix these problems.. that would helpful.. but no one ever got any better from pointing out the obvious..
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Ok, well I would say that you need to change how you have the bone/vertex weight distributed. It looks like you may have a vertex or two attached to bone that shouldn't be, that's what's giving you that weird pull. It might also be that you need to adjust the fall-off of the anchors as they they radiate away from the ankle, make the transition more uniform and extended it out a bit. As far as the arm pit flattening out, you could try adding more polys in that area to give a better distribution when it bends. You might also want to build a type of ball and socket rig into the shoulder to anchor those extra vertexes onto. It will be more work during the skinning process but it will allow for a smoother rotation.
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haha.. wow, look at you being all helpful now.. why didnt you do this right away ?
i dont think the vertex distribution is the problem tho.. i double checked if i had some weird vertexes attached to wrong bones but that doesnt seem the case.. what i do have is some weird edge flow on the foot which i think creates the weird effect on the feet..
i have no idea why the shoulder are flattening out when i rotate the arms.. i shall try to see if adding more geometry to the shoulder will fix the problem.. i definitely like the idea of adding a ball to the rig for extra volume.. this will help a lot once i start doing muscles too cause then i already know how to add separate bones to a rig and how to apply them to be part of the whole rig.. that will make things a lot easier for the future..
thank you for the help
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You could run an STL check to see if anything is overlapping or open around there. The sure fire way would be to scrap the foot and start a new one.
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yeah, i guess redoing the whole foot is the easiest and most save way to go.. thanks again for the help
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haha.. i guess i should have let him jump for eggs..
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I keep watching it, hoping he'll eventually reach the carrot.
Very nice jumping mechanics, the legs spring up just fine.
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