Good news.

Jamie wrote:


All I meant was - A limb freeze (or left and right arm timeline option) would allow us to animate without being prevented from doing so (ie greyed out) due to the chosen animation being unsuitable because the character is holding an object.
Jamie wrote:

Dreeko wrote:


Yeah, that really does bug me as well.

Dreeko wrote:


Interesting one Dreeko. Not sure how freezing one arm would work - I guess it'd have to be the character's current mood's idle animation for the "un-animated" arm

Dreeko wrote:


Err.. I don't follow what you mean here. Hmm?

Dreeko wrote:


Possibly this is actually making things more complex? It's certainly one of the challenges with character and object interactions. How does a character hold all the different things it possibly could and be animated in ways that look good and suitable? On the other hand, maybe that crazyness is the effect someone wants in their movie?

Dreeko wrote:



Now that is an interesting one. It could be very useful.

This one has come up before I'm sure. It would be nice to see but it would increase the creation time greatly if we had to do a direction/animation pass for every joint.

I would firstly like to see all upper body animations available for both sitting and standing modes. It's really annoying when you go to animate a character doing something and discover that the action is greyed out because he is sitting down and it is a standing animation!
In addition to this it would be nice if we could have the option to freeze one arm during character direction and freeze the other for a second direction. Yes, I know that another timeline would be required for the additional limb direction but the advantage of this system would be a substantial increase in the variety of animations possible purely from combining the existing ones and also, when we do reach the stage where characters can hold objects,this will allow us to animate without the dreaded greyed out experience which I assume would be the order of the day if we retain the existing pose restricted choices.
...or worse! We CAN use all the animations when they are holding objects and the spear holding character starts moving both arms all over the place cause he's performing a conversation animation.

Thoughts on this anyone?

Edit: There is one extra move I'd like to see.
..head tilt!
The head can move up and down and side to side and everything in between but the ability to tilt the head to one side isn't there!
It's amazing the emotion that can be conveyed from this simple movement.
Yip, head tilt please!

Cheers
D
edited by Dreeko on 30/05/2012

glasgowjim wrote:


How can you run out of dog? Surely a dog is for life not just for a forest!

Thanks for the warm welcome everyone!

@gimmick - I was constructed here in the office from bits of old QA tester they had around at the time. My power source limits me to this office and to the coffee shop (that convieniently sells hot rolls also) which is just next door.

If I could have one wish
What would it be?
The ability to import things into Muvizu
With parts you can and can't see.

Now I don't mean to moan
And I don't mean to whine
But to map alpha to emissive...
And have bits of models that shine.

If someone could fix this
The part of Muvizu that is broke
I think Barry S said he knew how
I've heard he's a handy bloke.

I don't care about other model formats
Or any of that crap
But would be delighted
If you could include the odd normal map.

Now this is my wish,
This is my plea
I would be so very grateful
If you could fix this for me!

Jamie wrote:



I read it as slow-motion direction/editing, normal playback. I second that emoticon!

Bow tie!

There are a variety of neck attachments, but no bow tie! It would be handy for james bond type movies and alike.

cheers

D

Fantastic idea - especially if we can include an arm which is texturable/colourable