I’ve got three goodies for you today (edit: plus two more now!).
http://homepage.mac.com/cake_or_death/julytraining/robotarm.mov (43megs)
This tutorial was Scott’s idea. Essentially I show how to animate an industrial robot arm. It’s really simple, takes about 10 minutes and involves bones, IK handles, pole vectors and constraints. Honestly, it’s really really easy, even if you don’t know anything about character animation it’s worth a watch.
PS. Please save the videos once you’ve watched them rather then returning to the link in the future - I’ve been going over my iDisk allowance (of 100gigs of downloads a month) nearly every time I post new training - This is both excellent, and bad
Hi Ian, by any chance have you got any report of the video not being played , the displacemet tutorial downloads one frame and than stops. And the other ones i just see the beach ball spinning going crazy here. Is there another way i could see these videos can you compress the size i donot if you can, i am unable to preview the tutorials. All the other ones o the EI page i can but these ones. Any ideas?
Thanks , Edgard
Heyyyy,
Someone couldn’t play the Displacement video, but it works here, they all work here… I am not sure of the problem…
Try a different web browser… The way the EITG forums work breaks the links if you try to download them directly.
You could also try copy and pasting the links directly into a download manager (like Speed Download).
Hope that helps,
Ian
I couldn’t open the displacement movie with QuickTime PC, a alert box mentioning a file name “iShowU-Capture2.mov” is missing, than I search and point it to the displacement.mov, than the tutorial open and play nicely, I’m not sure what goes wrong… for the other 2 tutorial no problem at all, and I like the robot arm the most, thanks Ian & Scott!
by the way I’m downloading the new 2 tutorial now.
have also problem with the disp. vid. I first tried with Safari and like already said black screen after first frame. Then i tried Firefox, which loaded the whole movie but didn´t played it. So i did a “save as” and Firefox re-downloaded the movie (arghh...) on my desktop. After that quicktime could load it but displayed nothing and could not play it. With VLC Media Player however i´m able to view the downloaded movie…
The Offset tool is a life saver, I recently used it on some FBX character animation - I had one animation but used ‘Offset time’ to make the walk cycles out of sync so it looked like I had many different walk cycles going at once.
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