Here's where things start to become more complicated. I just took a 3D Animation class and, I gotta say, it really opened my eyes on how complex animation can really get. There were so many gizmos and gadgets on our modeling program that it made my head spin. There are many modeling programs that deal with 3D. The program I learned with was Maya. Maya is a fantastic modeling program that a lot of professionals use to design characters and animate characters. Animation industries such as DreamWorks and Disney uses Autodesk Maya to create their movies. Pixar just recently created a program called RenderMan that they now only use, and I hear that it's a lot better than Maya. But, you know, all of these industries are coming up with a ton of new technology to be added to these programs that makes their movies look all that realistic.
Rigging is a major aspect in those programs. Rigging is what makes the characters move. It only exists in 3D animation or flash animation done on computers. It's hard to explain its elements without visually showing how it works, but it's basically building a skeleton around the 3D character model and attaching controls to its joints and limbs. If you think about it, it'd be a lot similar to manipulating a puppet. The strings are connected to elbows, knees, hands, feet, shoulders, hips, and the head. From there you can control the puppet by moving each string in a way as to where the puppet is moving in a certain way. Rigging a character is adding those controls so that it'll be easier to move the character around. Creating rigs is a very difficult thing to do in animation, but there are people who do it and it makes the animation flow so much smoother. I've worked with a rigged character and it was really fun to play around with, but it's very time consuming to get the character working smoothly. This type of advanced technology has really come a long way in the animation industry and it very clearly shows with today's movies.
Zootopia has quickly become one of my all time favorite Disney movies. I'm not sugar coating it, I've seen this movie five times in theaters. I simply could not get enough of it. The animation is so beautiful and the story line is fantastic. Disney came up with a new program to make animal fur looked realistic on screen and they did an amazing job with it. I'm making it a goal to try and work with Rich Moore in the future because he's managed to help produce two of my favorite Disney movies; Wreck-It Ralph and Zootopia. I'm shooting for TV animation, but I wouldn't mind ending up working on movies either. If you haven't seen this movie yet then I'd definitely advice seeing it because it's freaking awesome. If you have seen it, who's your favorite character? I don't really have one, but Nick and Judy are adorable.
Coming up, sketchbooks and internships!
Rigging is a major aspect in those programs. Rigging is what makes the characters move. It only exists in 3D animation or flash animation done on computers. It's hard to explain its elements without visually showing how it works, but it's basically building a skeleton around the 3D character model and attaching controls to its joints and limbs. If you think about it, it'd be a lot similar to manipulating a puppet. The strings are connected to elbows, knees, hands, feet, shoulders, hips, and the head. From there you can control the puppet by moving each string in a way as to where the puppet is moving in a certain way. Rigging a character is adding those controls so that it'll be easier to move the character around. Creating rigs is a very difficult thing to do in animation, but there are people who do it and it makes the animation flow so much smoother. I've worked with a rigged character and it was really fun to play around with, but it's very time consuming to get the character working smoothly. This type of advanced technology has really come a long way in the animation industry and it very clearly shows with today's movies.
Zootopia has quickly become one of my all time favorite Disney movies. I'm not sugar coating it, I've seen this movie five times in theaters. I simply could not get enough of it. The animation is so beautiful and the story line is fantastic. Disney came up with a new program to make animal fur looked realistic on screen and they did an amazing job with it. I'm making it a goal to try and work with Rich Moore in the future because he's managed to help produce two of my favorite Disney movies; Wreck-It Ralph and Zootopia. I'm shooting for TV animation, but I wouldn't mind ending up working on movies either. If you haven't seen this movie yet then I'd definitely advice seeing it because it's freaking awesome. If you have seen it, who's your favorite character? I don't really have one, but Nick and Judy are adorable.
Coming up, sketchbooks and internships!
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