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Pulsar Jump Animation WIP
🕑 Added 2024-06-20 23:13:56 +0000 UTCAnimation attached to this post.
I made this animation of Pulsar jumping over a log to test Pulsar's rig and procedural physics. I'm glad I did because I found several things broken with the rig that I need to fix. Overall though it's a big improvement from the last one. Unfortunately the physics are hard to get right.
Although I did some tests of procedural physics with his junk, they weren't very good. And I never bothered to implement collision so everything was clipping anyway. I ended up animating it by hand for this version to compare and.. yeah. That's the way to go for now. It's so much more flexible and detailed even if it takes longer.
I was able to use physics for his crest though, so that saved a bit of time. It takes a lot of tweaking but once it's dialed in I don't have to animate the entire shot by hand, so it helps out in the long run.
I'm not sure if I'm going to clean this one up or not. He still looks a little robotic because I didn't animate his face or some other details like fingers or the length of the tail feathers. I do really enjoy seeing Pulsar just moving and interacting with his environment in a casual way. So maybe I'll polish this one up just for practice, even though it's a single quick shot.
Comments
Kujiiro
Oh wow that actually looks really good. Got nice fluidity to it.
Amethystine
A great bit of test animation for a long shot of Pulsar doing one of his fave things: Going on a hike in nothing but sneakers / hiking shoes!
Pulsar
You can tell I put a lot of time into getting the feet right. xD
Dark Claw
^-^ dang that's awesome. That seems like a lot of work! Great job :)
Gladwin Lavrov
Gosh, imagine 110m hurdling with a package that large
Gus
Looks great! I love Pulsar’s 3d model. His feet have aura ngl
Jigglebonez
Oooh very nice physicality!
