Comments on: Repost: Fear of moving past blocking http://jasonschleifer.com/2008/12/30/repost-fear-of-moving-past-blocking/ Animation, Rigging, and a whole lotta talkin. Thu, 17 May 2012 01:39:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: fr002 http://jasonschleifer.com/2008/12/30/repost-fear-of-moving-past-blocking/comment-page-1/#comment-13047 fr002 Thu, 15 Jul 2010 03:49:10 +0000 http://jasonschleifer.com/2008/12/30/repost-fear-of-moving-past-blocking/#comment-13047 I think I got it, thank you for the clarification. Let me just paraphrase you (to make sure my big brain (head) catch it !!) : So generaly speaking (unless like you said, that the shoot would still be clearer in stepped mode (because of a to much mushy spline interpolation) you will go into Spline Interpolation in the Rough Cleanup... While other time we will pass this Rough Cleanup (meaning deviding the shoot in small part, and hiding the arms and legs to concentrate on the Hip/Torso) and go straight to a First Pass if the shoot is pretty simple and doesn't need that "layered" (for the body) kind of method. I am correct ? I think I got it, thank you for the clarification. Let me just paraphrase you (to make sure my big brain (head) catch it !!) :

So generaly speaking (unless like you said, that the shoot would still be clearer in stepped mode (because of a to much mushy spline interpolation) you will go into Spline Interpolation in the Rough Cleanup…
While other time we will pass this Rough Cleanup (meaning deviding the shoot in small part, and hiding the arms and legs to concentrate on the Hip/Torso) and go straight to a First Pass if the shoot is pretty simple and doesn’t need that “layered” (for the body) kind of method.

I am correct ?

]]> By: jason http://jasonschleifer.com/2008/12/30/repost-fear-of-moving-past-blocking/comment-page-1/#comment-13046 jason Thu, 15 Jul 2010 02:35:14 +0000 http://jasonschleifer.com/2008/12/30/repost-fear-of-moving-past-blocking/#comment-13046 Heya fr002, rough cleanup and first animation pass can almost be the same thing, depending on what the shot looks like and how confident your are in the shot's direction. Sometimes a rough cleanup is just going into the stepped poses and adding a few more breakdowns but staying in stepped mode if that's the clearest method of seeing the shot. Other times you just go right from rough staging to a first pass because it's an easy shot that can handle it. Sometimes you need to get the weight into you blocking pass.. other times you can wait (or weight.. heh) until later to focus on it. It really totally depends on the shot. Heya fr002,

rough cleanup and first animation pass can almost be the same thing, depending on what the shot looks like and how confident your are in the shot’s direction. Sometimes a rough cleanup is just going into the stepped poses and adding a few more breakdowns but staying in stepped mode if that’s the clearest method of seeing the shot. Other times you just go right from rough staging to a first pass because it’s an easy shot that can handle it.

Sometimes you need to get the weight into you blocking pass.. other times you can wait (or weight.. heh) until later to focus on it. It really totally depends on the shot.

]]> By: fr002 http://jasonschleifer.com/2008/12/30/repost-fear-of-moving-past-blocking/comment-page-1/#comment-13045 fr002 Thu, 15 Jul 2010 02:19:27 +0000 http://jasonschleifer.com/2008/12/30/repost-fear-of-moving-past-blocking/#comment-13045 Hi Jason, I just read again this very interesting article of yours, I just have a question, In the section that you wrote in Animation Insider, what you are describing in this text is classified under "5/ Rough Cleanup" (and the "first pass" is about weight, breaking up body parts...) , but in this text you are putting it under "first pass animation". So should I classify "breaking my shot down in to easily discernable chunks" under Rought Cleanup or First Animation Pass ? Thx very much. Hi Jason,
I just read again this very interesting article of yours,
I just have a question,
In the section that you wrote in Animation Insider, what you are describing in this text is classified under “5/ Rough Cleanup” (and the “first pass” is about weight, breaking up body parts…) , but in this text you are putting it under “first pass animation”.

So should I classify “breaking my shot down in to easily discernable chunks” under Rought Cleanup or First Animation Pass ?

Thx very much.

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