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SaphireNishi — jumping (animation)
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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hehe.. thanks a lot, babes
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wow, cool this is so awesome !!
I like the design of the cartoon rabbit character
really good flow of motion n realistic joint function
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thank you so much babes
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you are a sadist! XD haha wow poor bunny wait cat wants carrots???
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haha.. i love to see him work..!!
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I must admit, the character very much reminds me of Bill the Cat from Outland/Bloom County. Intentional?
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hehe.. i had to google who billy the cat was.. so no, its not intentional.. but i can definitely see the resemblance, yeah..!!!
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"GOTTA GET THAT CARROT!
MUST...GET...THAT...CARROOOOOOOOOTTTTT!"
Lol! Great work! I love it.
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lol.. that sound about how he would say things
thank you
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It looks a little slow to me, but other than that you did pretty good.
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It is hypnotic, I keep watching, waiting and expecting for him to get the carrot, even though I know it i is a loop. lol Very nice job.
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I keep trying to pull it down closer to him with the little had that appears went I click on my screen but I am unable to help him.
This is so very cute, motion and physics is very natural but the your assistant and his challenge in this demonstration are the best
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hehe.. thank you so much
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very neat. The subtle shadow effect is impressive.
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the left arm at the end is a little jerky (last few seconds) but overall very nice, you conveyed weight pretty well especially since he has huge feet
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yeah i saw that too.. but its more of an experiment on how the CAT system works in 3ds max.. did you ever try it ? its really amazing.. it makes things really easy..
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haha.. does maya have anything else to rig with then bones and the muscle system ?
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i honestly don't know, we haven't even talked about that stuff yet and i haven't bothered confusing myself with it 
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well thats not really true.. max and maya have a complete different way of setting up a rig.. thats way its so hard to export complete rigs from one program to the other.. only matching thing is simple straight forward bones.. but anything else isnt compatible anymore..
i know the muscle system that maya has is unmatched to any other 3d application.. its really powerful and as i understand it is really easy to use.. but i have no idea what kind of other systems are available in maya to rig either..
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well like i said i'm pretty sure they'd both have the same rigging features (deformations etc) but like you said
hopefully rigging isn't as hard as everyone is making it out to be, otherwise i'll just pay someone to rig my models for me
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well, not to scare you or anything 
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good b/c i don't want to bother with it anyways
that's what i like about the 3d industry - if there is something you don't like, you don't have to worry about it b/c there are a ton of other things you can do in the studio
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Ha ha... That's quite moving! I don't think that you mean 61 fps...
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lol.. no its 30 fps with 61 frame.. so that means 2 second of animation
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this is pretty good saphy, minor things like ear/whisker/foot flex could be improved but i doubt that`s the main thing you were after. the mechanism of the jump looks really smooth and works well as a single unit, the limbs don`t lose pace with the body. good work
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thank you babes.. im trying out the different rigging systems there are in 3ds max.. we got basically 3 ways to do it.. there is bones which i used in the basic physic movement animation.. then there is biped which i tried with the assassin creed thingy.. and we have CAT (Character Animation Toolkit).. i definitely like this CAT system the best.. its a pretty simple process and works really fast..
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oh cool, so you are trying lots of methods, i like your style. the CAT thing seems to produce good results for sure so if you feel comfortable with maybe make that the main system?
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well we have basically 3 ways on how we can make a complete rig inside 3ds max.. all 3 have their pros and cons..but yeah, i do think i like this cat system the best.. now that i try them all i can go deeper into one of them to see if i can get better results.. the problem with rigging is that its an art form on its own.. just like modeling is too.. so understanding how things work is actually the easy part.. but getting a skill for it is what is the hard part..
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it`ll be worth the effort, i work in a specialized trade and it took me maybe 7 years to get good. Still learning
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that is actually the good part about a specialized trade.. there is always room for improvement.. and there are always new tricks and features to learn
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yup. 
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gee ... umm ... Saph seems to have let herself go a bit
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hehe.. i sure hope he does.. it must be very frustrating to be so close, and yet so far
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