Dragon flying

uddhava · Post by **uddhava** » Thu Jan 21, 2010 5:35 pm

Here's a little animation I made using selgin's bone warping technique.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=072YMBIr3R0

udd

LeeHasPencil · Post by **LeeHasPencil** » Thu Jan 21, 2010 5:59 pm

Very nice and smooth.

super8mm · Post by **super8mm** » Thu Jan 21, 2010 6:01 pm

All it needs is wings.

Post by **Víctor Paredes** » Thu Jan 21, 2010 7:06 pm

Very nice, I like the overall look you get. Just have one observation, why the head movement looks so cut?
If you don't know maybe with an anme file I could help

uddhava · Post by **uddhava** » Thu Jan 21, 2010 9:16 pm

selgin wrote:Very nice, I like the overall look you get. Just have one observation, why the head movement looks so cut?
If you don't know maybe with an anme file I could help

Thank you. I am not sure what you mean by "so cut". Could you explain it a little more? Here is a link to the file.

http://www.mediafire.com/?ge1ukzmmjm1

udd

uddhava · Post by **uddhava** » Thu Jan 21, 2010 9:24 pm

Thanks everyone for taking a look and for the comments. As for wings, well maybe, let's see.

udd

Post by **Víctor Paredes** » Thu Jan 21, 2010 10:08 pm

Ok, I discovered why there was a problem and I solved it. But still haven't the reason.

With "cut" I was refering that the head movement were not fluid, it had jumps between one frame to other.
Curiously, to solve this problem, I moved the head group layer origin down and it moves fluid.

uddhava · Post by **uddhava** » Fri Jan 22, 2010 9:17 am

selgin,

How far did you move the origin down? If I move it down too far it messes the whole thing up.
You are expert, you can see these things better than me.

udd

Post by **Víctor Paredes** » Fri Jan 22, 2010 12:26 pm

http://www.mediafire.com/?tydynkmoj42
Uddhava, here is a file with the origin moved down. It's not a perfect slution, but the head movement looks much more smooth.

I still can't understand why is this happening, maybe with a little more time.

PD: Ok. I found a better and easier solution. You just must increase the bone influence, in your original file I just increase all bones influences to 4.7. That works fine

uddhava · Post by **uddhava** » Fri Jan 22, 2010 2:50 pm

Okay, thanks selgin. I will try what you have said.
In general will increasing the bone strength make this technique work better?

udd

Post by **Víctor Paredes** » Fri Jan 22, 2010 2:59 pm

uddhava wrote:In general will increasing the bone strength make this technique work better?

Seems to be it makes. But can't be sure without testing, anyway, I think it will depend of the character.