Animating a Quadruped with AnimSquad

I had the pleasure of working with Matt Shumway while at Rhythm & Hues and he was my animation supervisor on HOP. Have a look at this preview from a workshop about quadruped animation. Some great insight to creature stuff.

Trailer Matt Shumway "Animating A Quadruped" Masterclass from Animsquad on Vimeo.

Enjoy!
JP

Animation Addicts: Applying Human Reference to Quadrupeds

Tal Shwarzman over at Animation Addicts shares with us his workflow when it relates to using Human Reference to get a performance out of quadrupeds, in this case a cat. Some great insight to some animation workflows from one of his iAnimate demos.

Animating the Shadow Cat from Animation Addicts on Vimeo.

A few short minuets edited from one of my Q&A's at iAnimate that was dealing in taking human reference and applying it to a quadruped.

Head over to Animation Addicts to find for great stuff!

Enjoy!

JP

How To Animate Quadrupeds: Jason Ryan

Jason Ryan has just released a new 6 part series of downloadable webinars titled The Four Legged Series.

The Four Legged Series

Jason Ryan:

"What I wanted to do in this series is cover how I approach animating four legged actions from concept to completion.  Just like my Tutorials at jasonryananimation.com, I start from scratch and animate each action in 2D for every single frame.  So whether you are doing your shots in 2D, CG or Stop-Motion you will be able to follow along from the Blocking stage all the way through to adding overlap on tails and ears.  I want to keep the price really low so that everyone can afford them.  On Jasonryananimation each tutorial ranges from $40 to $100 each.  For this series I am giving you all six tutorials together in one download for just $39.99."

I haven't had a chance to look at these yet but I've seen how Jason approaches quadrupeds from a few earlier jrawebinars and it is truly an easy to grasp workflow.

Have a look! Great Price!
Enjoy

JP