Swimmer Update

So I finished making the beginning animations and combined them all adjusting the timing so they aren't all twining. Not much more to say from that, I do see some tweaks to be made before I'm happy with it.

Rough Cut Demo Reel

So this is my current reel, I made this up overnight and pretty much got put to shame by the better demo reels where there was just a lot more polish. blarg

Three long weeks

This... I got everything smoothed out for the most part in this animation. Everything is there, its just a matter of smoothing out a few jolts, especially in the arm swaying section, that just looks odd. I've yet to hear feed back from the internship guys. I just need to duplicate the set 2 more times and add 3 different start animations to the warm up for the swimmers, which shouldn't be too much of a problem but I'm not sure if I'll get to it today.



Major issues with the rig I posted all about it here if you want specifics http://www.c4dcafe.com/ipb/topic/67596-mesh-breaking-help-cinema-115/ and here is a picture of what I had to deal with.

I have the rough cut of my demo reel due tomorrow so that is what I will focus on today, everything is there I think I'll just work on the intro tag section and maybe make that 3D as well as getting the roughs of all my projects in there and not just still images <_<, maybe adding stills could be a cool idea.

Progress and Plans

~Plans
Its been quiet a while since my last update,

I would like to change that, but instead of having regular updates I'll update more as I make progress on current projects, which would mean at every days end if I've been productive I'll take a snapshot or upload a video of my progress. Minor things I'll probably save for a larger update and just try to have fun with it.

I have begun my last quarter at Ai (this is the first week) and I'm already stressed. My internship started during my week off and there is just a lot to plan for and stay on top of. Mainly I've been learning Cinema 4D and trying to crank out a decent looking animation, but there have been some major drawbacks because the rigs mesh is acting up and its just something I need to deal with today or tomorrow.


~Progress

From my internship they wanted a swimmer so they provided the set and ... the rig. Here is where I'm at currently:



Here is what the stepped tangent keys looked like:


Finally some snapshots of the video reference I used: