Animation

Final Animation

Storyboard

My animation Is a triple jumper and idea is the person beings to run and then jumps into three continuious jumps and then one big final jump. As the person does the final jump their legs and arms lean up to gain as much air time as possible before landing, after they have landed the person beings to nod and clap and throw their hands up into the air. When animating the person running i had to move the arms one by one to make it look like the person is putting in the effort to run at a high speed using a biped you can set the steps automatically and the character is already boned so it makes it easier to move each limb. After watching alot of videos of triple jumpers i saw that they skip the last three jumps to build momentum before leaping into the final jump, I found that hard to recreate in 3DS but after watching alot of examples and other animations i found it easier to work out.

Pro's

Using a Biped is simple because you dont have to create the models and bone it

Simple to navigate and control

Easy to set keyframes

Have alot of control of the Biped itself

Con's

Biped is boring to look at

Can be buggy sometimes

Limbs arent very fluid





Examples

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=occFkFbl3ms&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2OtvDXp-mQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&v=a8ScZ7GQxhs&NR=1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=fvwp&NR=1&v=b8GRGQk01mw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWxnshBGZm8&feature=related