Webinar: Applying Animation Principles in AS

[Víctor Paredes]

Thank you all.
Artzuza:
The webinar was already structured when I posted all this and it's hard to make place for anything else. We have short time and I always try to cover as much as possible. Fortunately, I think most of your asks were covered on the final questions section.

Thank you a lot for the webinar Victor!
I found it very inspiring, and you gave a lot of great tips!
One thing that made it so good was the fact that you animated at the spot, and that you limited the time you had, to only a few principles. Good thinking!

Thank you very much, Ulrik. I really appreciate your words. I work hard to make webinars as good as I can. I changed the structure several times for this one, because when I tested it (recording my screen and then watching it) I realized that some stuff worked better than other or some stuff was better explained in a different order, for example. Generally I test a webinar 3 or 4 times before the real one. It's a hard but fan process, so your words really cheer me up

Victor, can you tell how you mask the wolf head so that (I assume) the eyes have masks inside the head, but display nicely without rendering? I can do similar but the eyes won't appear as being masked in the preview, only after rendering, which is really distracting. Sorry that this is off topic
Oh, I think I figured it out, you don't have nested masking, just the eye layers have a big grey square that stays in the head mask when the eyes move. That works nicely actually. I saw this pretty apparently @ 33 minutes or so. Sorry to be a distraction, just the wolf looks great.
EDIT AGAIN: How do you do the mouth as well? I would love a webinar on how to create a character like this, my attempts are pretty pitiful by comparison.

Hi Braj,
For the eyes, I discovered that it was better to simulate a mask instead of making a real one. That's why the mask of the eyes looks good in the preview, because it actually isn't a mask.
I explained it in a thread I can't find now. But here's the image I used there

For the mouth I don't remember well, but I'm almost sure I used an "2014 version" of this:
New improved Head Turn Technique!

Thank you for watching the webinar, I hope you find it informative

[braj]

Oh thanks Selgin, that's the way I did my eyes before I figured out masking About the head turn, I took your file from http://www.mediafire.com/?dhgjt0ozzj2 and manually pointed AS to the script, but I'm not sure it is working, it seems when adding smartbones to your example I did have to manually animate the mouth points when opening/closing, do you know if the script is compatible with 10.1? It's not too hard manually animating a couple smartbone actions on the simple head, but I'm wary to try it with more complex art. But I do think I understand how to do it now

OH BTW I love that wolf, especially the part in the webinar where you show how to use a curve to guide you through animating the tail, that was very helpful and I'll definitely be using that. I also ordered the book 'Animated Performance'. Great webinar all way round.

[braj]

Selgin, sorry again, I'm just slow. I realize now that I have to embed the script on each layer that I want to use it with. Now it all works wonderfully. Thank you for all the webinars, tutorials, and patience.