{"id":26,"date":"2005-10-12T01:55:54","date_gmt":"2005-10-12T06:55:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flavor8.com\/wkistler\/am_blog\/index.php\/2005\/10\/12\/weeks-2-and-3\/"},"modified":"2006-05-24T04:35:13","modified_gmt":"2006-05-24T09:35:13","slug":"weeks-2-and-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.willk.com\/am_blog\/2005\/10\/12\/weeks-2-and-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Weeks 2 and 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ok, I have a lot of catching up to do.  I was in chicago interviewing for (non-animation) jobs for the end of week 2, and so I am just now getting around to posting my work.<\/p>\n<p>I last left you with a walk, sans arms.  It was a jaunty affair, even in stepped mode.  For week 2, we  had to add arms, as well as some sort of cool anticipation to get into the walk.  First things first, I shot some reference of what I wanted to do:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/images\/blog\/q2s02reference.mov\">Me, dancin&#8217;!<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Then I sketched some arms for ol&#8217; stewie (the rig&#8217;s name) and some more thumbs for the initial action:<br \/>\n<img src=\"\/images\/blog\/q2s02sketches01.jpg\" alt=\"sketches with arms\" \/><br \/>\n<img src=\"\/images\/blog\/q2s02sketches02.jpg\" alt=\"dancing\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And finally blocked it out:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/images\/blog\/q2s02blocking.avi\">Week 2&#8217;s Blocking<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Gavin liked it allright, but wanted more, so I ended up adding some boppin&#8217; while ol&#8217; Stewie got into things.  Turns out, with this rig, it&#8217;s a technical nightmare to switch between IK hands and FK hands.  I worked around it, though, cause that&#8217;s how I roll.  That&#8217;s right, rig.  I run the show here.  Here&#8217;s the final product.  I still think it could use some work, but this is the end of week 3. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/images\/blog\/q2s03dance_and_walk.avi\">Dancing and Walking, all smoothed out.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Next time&#8230;heavy push.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ok, I have a lot of catching up to do. I was in chicago interviewing for (non-animation) jobs for the end of week 2, and so I am just now getting around to posting my work. I last left you with a walk, sans arms. It was a jaunty affair, even in stepped mode. For [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.willk.com\/am_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.willk.com\/am_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.willk.com\/am_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.willk.com\/am_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.willk.com\/am_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.willk.com\/am_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.willk.com\/am_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.willk.com\/am_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.willk.com\/am_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}