Pigeon: Impossible Podcast #016 - Animating The Pigeon

This week covers how to develop a "motion language" for a character that helps to create a consistent and unique personality.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• animation
• 3d
• cg
• xsi
• maya
• max
• blender
• lightwave
• short
• film
• animating
• principle
• planning

[OneDragonmaster]

"When in doubt, have it behave like a dog" is a rule that quite a lot of people seem to go for when using animal characters. I don't mind when it's played for laughs or done inconspicuously, but it does get old. For example, when a character encounters a vicious-looking beast that may or may not be an alien life form of some sort and throws a stick, you can bet your arse that the creature will fetch it and wag its tail if it has one.

[SaritaWolf]

Wow, that head vs. hip movement thing was interesting! I've never noticed that before; thanks for the tip lol

[mattcash]

I really liked the pigeon animation. The research payed off.

[p44v9n]

very nice picking up on that :) its awesome seeing how much research was done for this, it all comes out looking so natural..

[toonamifan]

keep it up!

[digimonworld123]

this helped me alot thanks

[DarkNemos]

Very nice podcast!