Friday 11 November 2016

Dinosaur Locomotion Tutorial



Our latest tutorial at Animation Apprentice shows how to animate a dinosaur in motion.  The tutorial uses the excellent free Dino rig by Harry Geoghegan, available for free download at Creative Crash.  By-election following the tutorial, novice animators can create a believable dinosaur walk cycle and performance. To get a flavour of the exercise, watch the free theory video above.

Dinosaurs - Introduction to The Available Rigs

 


Dinosaurs have been a staple of visual effects movies ever since Jurassic Park and, even before that, London's FrameStore created the astonishing Walking With Dinosaurs series when such work barely seemed possible.

Dinosaur Rigs

With the visual effects industry expanding rapidly globally, and - of course - employing more and more animators - every animator should have a little dinosaur action on their demo reel.

ILM and Fallen Kingdom
To find out more about dinosaur animation, and how ILM approach the problem of realistic and believable dinosaur animation, read this blog post. 

Tutorial
"Indominus Rex" rig by Truong
In the tutorial you will learn how to:
  • create a dinosaur walk cycle based on research and reference
  • use offset curves to add flexibility
  • create a believable set
  • animate a moving camera
  • add special effects such as camera shakes
  • bake your curves
  • create a performance 
You can find the tutorial at the links below:

Dinosaur Locomotion Part 1
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