{"id":5562,"date":"2024-12-04T22:41:11","date_gmt":"2024-12-05T03:41:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/imgd3500-b24\/?p=5562"},"modified":"2024-12-09T16:22:18","modified_gmt":"2024-12-09T21:22:18","slug":"keenan-jones-character-animation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/imgd3500-b24\/kajones\/keenan-jones-character-animation\/","title":{"rendered":"Keenan Jones &#8211; Character Animation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The guy is rigged and movin! Since my character is a robot and doesn&#8217;t do much actual deforming in his animation, Mixamo wasn&#8217;t the best option for rigging\/animation. (If you&#8217;ve ever put a character with any level of hard surface items into mixamo, you know the horrors). Instead, I opted to use another autorigger, AdvancedSkeleton. AdvancedSkeleton is a plugin for Maya, which works similar to the humanIK\/quickRig options but with a few more options for fine-tuning things. After a bit of trial and error we got him fully rigged, second arms and everything! Again, since he doesn&#8217;t deform, I was able to save soo much time by basically skipping the weight painting stage and just flooding pieces to respond to controllers fully rigidly. I animated the idle, walk and run in maya, and then got it all set up in Unity. (I almost lost my mind at one point because I accidentally had mismatched names in my rigged fbx and my animations fbxs due to a referencing issue in maya.. but thats another story). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here&#8217;s some playblasts from Maya and him moving in engine:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"JJ Idle\" width=\"1000\" height=\"563\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FiUFx49ak4Q?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"JJ Walk\" width=\"1000\" height=\"563\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zjgGglJO0GM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"JJ Run\" width=\"1000\" height=\"563\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OyrgbZ1kKQ8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"JJ Anims In Engine\" width=\"1000\" height=\"563\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/c68OIBcifv4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The guy is rigged and movin! Since my character is a robot and doesn&#8217;t do much actual deforming in his animation, Mixamo wasn&#8217;t the best option for rigging\/animation. (If you&#8217;ve ever put a character with any level of hard surface items into mixamo, you know the horrors). Instead, I opted to use another autorigger, AdvancedSkeleton&#8230;. <\/p>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/imgd3500-b24\/kajones\/keenan-jones-character-animation\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":352,"featured_media":5563,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-character-animation"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/imgd3500-b24\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/35\/2024\/12\/JJ_inEngine_.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/imgd3500-b24\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/imgd3500-b24\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/imgd3500-b24\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/imgd3500-b24\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/352"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/imgd3500-b24\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5562"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/imgd3500-b24\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5564,"href":"https:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/imgd3500-b24\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5562\/revisions\/5564"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/imgd3500-b24\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/imgd3500-b24\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/imgd3500-b24\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/imgd3500-b24\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}