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CategoryAnimation

Articles about animation for games.

Animation Theory

• Cartoon Animation by Preston Blair

• 28 Principles of Animation by Walt Stanchfield

• Tricks to Animating Characters with a Computer by John Lasseter

• Acting and Animation by Doron A. Meir

• Dealing with gimbal lock by Andrew Silke

• Letters of Note - How to Train an Animator by Walt Disney

Animation Tutorials

• Pose to Pose Pop-Through Animation by Keith Lango

• The Walk Cycle tutorial by Dermot O’ Connor

• Animation tutorials by Mike Brown (theory, gimbal lock, rigging, walk cycles)

• The Animation Clinic: Animation Training for the Masses ($) by Keith Lango

• Spungella Many tutorials and links, great resource for Portfolio Tips, Animation Resources, and Rigs

• Great Links at AndyToons More links, Tutorials, Interviews with Great Animators etc.gathered by Andres G. Lazaro

• The Angry Animator Bouncing Ball, Walk Cycle, and Lip Sync Tutorials by Dermot O' Conner

• Manipulating Rigs at Animation Buffet (norman rig but can be applied to any rig) by Nair Archawattana

• Jason Ryan Animation

• TraptCG - animation tutorials as well as others.

Animation Reference

• Bio Motion Lab - A rotateable walk cycle with different parameters (male female, happy sad, heavy light)

• ARTnatomy Artist friendly facial antomy (start on level 2). A flash based web application that allows you to sort and isolate with opacity between the muscles, skin and skull.

• Posemaniacs - Essential for capturing the essence of a character in a short span of time

• The Facial Expression Repertoire by Filmakademie Baden-Wuerttemberg

Rigging

• Creating Custom Characters for UT3 by Epic Games is an overview of how to setup characters for Unreal using 3ds Max. See also Creating Animations for the Unreal Engine: Character Setup and Rigging.

• Facial Rigging Tutorial by Alden Filion. Rigging up a control board with the help of a script.

• Facial Control Board Tutorial by Jesse Sandifer. A video tutorial that outlines the same method but walks you through it manually, good info to know.

• Wrinkle Map Wiring in 3dsMax by Mark "Vig" Dygert

• 3ds Max - Cloth Sim to Bones by Mark "Vig" Dygert

• Multi Layer Cloth Basics by Paul Hormis

• Creating Collision Meshes Using Conform Wrap by Paul Hormis

• Using Cloth to Simulate Chains by Paul Hormis

• Articulation by Brian Tindall, Character Technical Director at Pixar

• Rigging 101 by Javier Solsona Maya rigging tutorials and resources

• The Setup Machine Maya rigging made simple

• MEL Scripting for Animators from Insomniac Games

Free Rigs

• Animators: Free rigged characters online? from the Polycount forum

Motion Capture

Sources for free motion capture (mocap).

• http://mocap.cs.cmu.edu/ (bvh format for 3ds Max here)

• http://stockmoves.e-motek.com/

• http://www.mocapdata.com/

• http://freemotionfiles.blogspot.com/

Blogs, Podcasts, Etc.

• http://www.navone.org/blogger/ Victor Navone's blog (The alien song guy who works for Pixar now)

• http://animationpodcast.com/ Animation Pod Cast

• Speaking of Animation - Podcasts with Industry Professionals on current releases by Ben Willis, Adam Strick, Jacob Gardner, Stephen Melagrano

• Carlos Baena's Blog

• The Yelling Rocket

Must Read Books

• The Illusion of Life by Ollie Johnston and Frank Thomas

• The Animator's Survival Kit by Richard Williams

• Drawn to Life by Walt Stanchfield

• The Animators Workbook by Tony White

• Stop Staring by Jason Osipa

• Directing the Story by Francis Glebas

• Anamie - simplified Drawing/planning animation by

• Draw the Looney Toons by Dan Romanelli

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