{"id":1172,"date":"2017-10-05T11:22:20","date_gmt":"2017-10-05T15:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/imgd3500-a17\/?p=1172"},"modified":"2017-10-05T11:22:20","modified_gmt":"2017-10-05T15:22:20","slug":"character-animations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/imgd3500-a17\/2017\/10\/05\/character-animations\/","title":{"rendered":"Character animations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the animations I used the stock mouse rig. To record I used the playblast feature in Maya.<\/p>\n<p>The first NPC animations are for the mousehole I made. When the main character approaches, the mouse comes out to join you.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 525px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('video');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-1172-1\" width=\"525\" height=\"295\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"http:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/imgd3500-a17\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2017\/10\/mousehole_idle.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/imgd3500-a17\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2017\/10\/mousehole_idle.mp4\">http:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/imgd3500-a17\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2017\/10\/mousehole_idle.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 525px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-1172-2\" width=\"525\" height=\"295\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"http:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/imgd3500-a17\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2017\/10\/mousehole_action.mp4?_=2\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/imgd3500-a17\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2017\/10\/mousehole_action.mp4\">http:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/imgd3500-a17\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2017\/10\/mousehole_action.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p>The second interaction I made was with the cheese wedge I made. There isn&#8217;t a smooth transition between these ones; one is just an idle, and the other is an action for running away with part of the cheese.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 525px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-1172-3\" width=\"525\" height=\"295\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"http:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/imgd3500-a17\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2017\/10\/cheese_idle.mp4?_=3\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/imgd3500-a17\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2017\/10\/cheese_idle.mp4\">http:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/imgd3500-a17\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2017\/10\/cheese_idle.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 525px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-1172-4\" width=\"525\" height=\"295\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"http:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/imgd3500-a17\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2017\/10\/cheese_action.mp4?_=4\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/imgd3500-a17\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2017\/10\/cheese_action.mp4\">http:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/imgd3500-a17\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2017\/10\/cheese_action.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p>The last NPC animation set I made was for a mouse chilling in a goblet. He is too lazy to aid you and just waves.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 525px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-1172-5\" width=\"525\" height=\"295\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"http:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/imgd3500-a17\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2017\/10\/goblet_idle.mp4?_=5\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/imgd3500-a17\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2017\/10\/goblet_idle.mp4\">http:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/imgd3500-a17\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2017\/10\/goblet_idle.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 525px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-1172-6\" width=\"525\" height=\"295\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"http:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/imgd3500-a17\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2017\/10\/goblet_action.mp4?_=6\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/imgd3500-a17\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2017\/10\/goblet_action.mp4\">http:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/imgd3500-a17\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2017\/10\/goblet_action.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p>My main character is going to be in third-person, so I made idle and walking animations for them.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 525px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-1172-7\" width=\"525\" height=\"295\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"http:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/imgd3500-a17\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2017\/10\/character_idle.mp4?_=7\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/imgd3500-a17\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2017\/10\/character_idle.mp4\">http:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/imgd3500-a17\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2017\/10\/character_idle.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 525px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-1172-8\" width=\"525\" height=\"295\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"http:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/imgd3500-a17\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2017\/10\/character_walk.mp4?_=8\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/imgd3500-a17\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2017\/10\/character_walk.mp4\">http:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/imgd3500-a17\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2017\/10\/character_walk.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the animations I used the stock mouse rig. To record I used the playblast feature in Maya. The first NPC animations are for the mousehole I made. When the main character approaches, the mouse comes out to join you. The second interaction I made was with the cheese wedge I made. There isn&#8217;t a &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/imgd3500-a17\/2017\/10\/05\/character-animations\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Character animations&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p962Ri-iU","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/imgd3500-a17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/imgd3500-a17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/imgd3500-a17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/imgd3500-a17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/imgd3500-a17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1172"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/imgd3500-a17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1182,"href":"https:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/imgd3500-a17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1172\/revisions\/1182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/imgd3500-a17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/imgd3500-a17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/imgd3500-a17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}