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Helicopter swing

Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2008 5:01 pm
by fracturedray
Did all the tutorials this weekend and last night I wanted to do something fun. So I choose to do a guy hanging on to the helicopter ski. Almost didn't think it was possible till I realized the hand holding the ski would be the parent bone.

I'm not worried about the art right now. this is about technique and figuring out how to do what I want and if it looks good.

http://epicwalnut.com/epicwalnut_animation.html

Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2008 9:56 pm
by synthsin75
Hey that's pretty good. Convincing movement.
:wink:

Posted: Wed Sep 10, 2008 2:36 am
by fracturedray
Thanks synthsin75. :)

Looks good

Posted: Wed Sep 10, 2008 5:39 pm
by themuseboy
Looks good to me as well. I always have difficulty with getting bones to move the way I want.the way I want.

Posted: Mon Sep 15, 2008 3:52 am
by kphgraphics
Nicely done

Posted: Wed Sep 17, 2008 10:46 am
by funksmaname
:)
only issue with face turn is i think you warp perspective too much, almost looks like a fisheye lens? (maybe he's looking through a door viewer? hehe)

Posted: Thu Sep 18, 2008 2:37 am
by fracturedray
lol

Yeah I have to agree the face warp is to distorted. Thanks for the comments guys.

Re: Helicopter swing

Posted: Sat Sep 20, 2008 11:22 pm
by BrotherAnimations
Cool, how did you make them into sprites, is it in the pro version, because I dont have pro....

Posted: Sun Sep 21, 2008 8:08 am
by fracturedray
It is the regular version but they are flash (swf) movies not sprites. Sorry, I don't even know if pro can do sprites. It would be cool if they could but I'm not sure I can afford to buy a pro copy right now.

Posted: Sun Sep 21, 2008 5:07 pm
by BrotherAnimations
Woops, im soory, I was just obsessed with the sprites thing. I ment to say how do you make them into gifs XP
Unless it is a flash loop.

Posted: Sun Sep 21, 2008 5:24 pm
by synthsin75
If you're on windows, Microsoft Gif Animator is a nice free program for making Gifs from Avi movies. :wink:

Posted: Sun Sep 21, 2008 6:17 pm
by BrotherAnimations
synthsin75 wrote:If you're on windows, Microsoft Gif Animator is a nice free program for making Gifs from Avi movies. :wink:
Thanks