Realistic Biped, 1/3 - "Bird Brain" - Spore Creature Creator

[ShinzuiUindo]

This is a really useful video! I can't play Spore atm, but might arm sculpting interfiere with the creature's walk?

[Rendaylor]

@ShinzuiUindo not really, but I'm not even sure how good these videos are anymore. A few months after I finished the series, Maxis went and redid the routines that determine how creatures walk.

[racoonknux49]

balls of your feet? BALLS of your feet? O_o

[souTheHunterofDeath]

nice, very good, what program do you use to record?

[Rendaylor]

Spore has built in recording and uploading to Youtube :)

[rachelcoates92]

It's a good tutorial... one I'll remember

[fredryckphocks]

harvy birdman's baby o.o

[Chibity]

Quite good!

[Fjarhultian]

Yeah, show how it's made in the actual creation mode rather than the test-run mode.

[Rendaylor]

the creature creator only lets you record in test mode. to record in other modes you need a program like Camtasia (or others) which I'm not going to purchase just to do these tutorials, sorry.

[Fjarhultian]

There should be some free software in some corner of the web, but I see your point.

[ismetteren]

camstudio is free

[1Mudkip88]

in the actual game you can record by pressing v and take screenshots by pressng c

[Gabd3v]

I need help. Im trying to make a bipedal dragon. I dont know but I want to creat anything lol. I hope you can help.

[ShadowRaptor101]

no u can press V to record anywhere in spore!

[SporeThisBitch]

really? i never knew that wow! so do you just press v? or hold it down? thanks

[racoonknux49]

press it once to record and again to stop

[R055HP]

I can see your point. The problem I have seen with amny of the bipedal designs on the Spore Creature Creator is that the creatures bodies are far too straight.

[Rendaylor]

yeah, Bird Brain in this video is a bit too rigid as well. I adjusted his elbow and wrist position (nothing else) before posting him as a creatortip creature on Sporepedia and he moves much better now

[R055HP]

I see what you mean. Human backs are bent and we posses a slight hunch in our posture. Could you post a video of Bird Brian mk.2?

[cinder2009]

Very nice. Basically you try and recreate the human anatomy right?

[Rendaylor]

not exactly. the Spore animations don't mimic nature quite right, and WIll specified that they're using shortcuts as well. SO what I'm doing is taking a bit of what I know of anatomy and physics and how Spore animates things and working out a balance between them that allows Spore to render the walk cycle realistically

[mystermistery]

Impressive. Really shows how fine-tuned human walking gait is. Good job!

[Dinictus]

You've got to share how you can add actually selectable text balloons and frames like that. Looks like something Youtube provides, but this is a first for me.

[Rendaylor]

It's the annotation feature found in the Video section of your account. :)

I only just discovered it this weekend myself :D

[jonas3333]

Nice job on the video and figuring out the "hidden joint" trick, but you should show how the hidden joint is done if you can.