Lucas Ridley
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Sr Gameplay Animator @ Sharkmob, formerly Jellyfish Pictures, Framestore, Rocksteady, Naughty Dog, Method, ILM, Psyop, Moonbot, Sony. Animation mentorship site:
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Walk cycle reference on the spot
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Animation + Rigging reference
Dynamic Digital Radiography (DDR) allows you to observe movement like never before. This novel low-dose X-ray imaging technique enables visualization of anatomy in motion.
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3D Animation is a wild career.
You can have animated the Hulkbuster in an Avengers movie and then apply to a small studio doing kids shows who's like:
"We don't think you're qualified to animate Mr. Snuffles in Grumpytown StoryTime for tv we're going with stronger candidates."
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Animation Students: inertia reference = drag, follow through, and overlap
Impact on face seen in extremely slow motion.
[📹 The Slow Mo Guys]
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For the benefit of new students looking to be job-ready and getting their studies detailed by memes, I’ve used Blender to animate at ZERO of the studios I’ve worked at.
It's been a few years now and Blender hasn't steered me wrong once 🚢 Modelling became fun again!
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Animation jump reference
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Today's
#Autodesk
Maya experiment: crater making as quickly as possible. Took maybe 20 minutes to set up:
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Steven Spielberg's approval of this 30-second camera animation is one of the highlights of my career:
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10 ways to avoid becoming a 3D animator:
1) Get distracted by every new software, tool, and rig.
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My first real Blender animation!
Thanks to everyone for the technical help the last two weeks.
I'd like to make a course for Maya animators to make for a smoother transition for anyone interested, register here:
#b3d
#animation
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Notice animation students, if the cog doesn’t come into balance quick, you’re going down.
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Speaking to an animator recently discussing everyone’s project they disliked working on the most, due to the conditions of it, etc. and one persons was Across the Spiderverse. A movie everyone is loving right now was the one they hated working on the most. Just food for thought.
3) The "best" film may be an absolute nightmare to work on and the "lame" film may be a joy that catapults your skills to the next level.
Build your career around the relationships you forge and the artistic journey you take. Choosing a gig based on prestige alone is a trap.
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Lead -> Follow animation reference
Watch this baseball pitchers complex elbow moves at slow mo,
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Brendan teaches how to make animations like these in the Animator's Journey Intermediate course:
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Anyone interested in SD, another policy they have is zero outside work.
I’ve never seen this extreme of a policy.
They wanted me to stop teaching so I had to decline their offer.
@splashdamage
@developconf
As a remote worker this would make me start looking for another job. Very disappointing.
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🫨 Overshoot and Settle Animation Reference:
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Clear timing and posing for the antic at the end 😂
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Conservation of Momentum reference for animators
Project Grizzly
1996 / Canada / Peter Lynch
Canadian inventor Troy Hurtubise tests his armored grizzly bear protection suit
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Really enjoying playing with this rig. Hope to show some animation tests soon.
It was a pleasure to work on this character. Thank you for the opportunity
@lucasridley
and thank you for the great model
#3d
#rigging
#rig
#maya
#animation
#character
#modeling
#design
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🆕 For newer animators, there's a tendency to want the rig to animate for you.
👟 Using attributes like the foot roll, we just want it to "work." But it takes a bit more attention to detail, especially for foot push offs.
🌟 TLDR: Make sure the toe is not lifted during push-off.
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🚶♀️What hips do during a walk - animation reference I created for my students:
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This is huge news from
@autodesk
about Maya. They're going to offer the Indie license worldwide now! Basically what used to cost 1-month will get you an entire year of Maya:
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🐊 Animation performance reference
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4 months - that’s how quick my mentor student went from never having animated to having their first job interview today. Feeling very proud of them.
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❗ You can exaggerate too much in animation.
🙇♂️ Keep in mind the context of your shot.
(
@brendandjcad
from the Intermediate course lessons.)
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Expression test in the works for a brand new character at , his name is AJ ;)
Being rigged by the talented
@TemaRoots
concept by Eduardo Gilsanz Pastrana and model by Ander Liza
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@boltondynamics
Who said throw anything in a dumpster? Overreaction seems to be a staple of anyone defending Blender.
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Animation👏students👏
👏This👏is👏why👏your👏animation👏looks👏funky👏if👏you👏change👏speed👏mid-air👏
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@OhNoSheTwitnt
It’s never too late! I’ll even make a mini-tutorial later tonight and post it to this thread for everyone to see how I made this in a couple minutes :)
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I put them all in a spreadsheet for easy sharing.
Animation artists are anonymously sharing salaries – and the pay disparities are huge.
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🎾 What do you notice in this video?
Tennis balls can not only squash, but that squash can cause friction, which causes something else to happen in the video... It's important in animation to study these cause/effect relationships to motivate believable decisions in our anims
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This is what grinds my gears the most. It's borderline criminal and fraud. 🧵
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If you see a helicopter in this movie there’s about a 33% chance I animated it. One fun full cg shot too, wondering if people will be able to spot it ;)
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🏃♂️ Woody's run mechanics in Toy Story are unique
🎞 Watch the video to learn how and why
Download a free body mechanics rig and run cycle tutorial here:
Woody rig made available by
@AgoraCommunity_
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This one pushed me over the edge.
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🗺 There are many paths for new animators, here's some suggestions:
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👟 Animate this run - full demo with real time commentary:
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🤡 Study cartoony animation with Hotel Transylvania animator Jason Behr as he creates this animation and provides context in one of the 12 weeks of lessons in the Intermediate course:
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🔍 Breaking down movement is the first step to recreating it in animation.
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Secret MMB tip for Maya from the Intermediate course.
@AthiasDelano
drops knowledge in the course alongside other great teachers.
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Why I left the US to work in the UK, for less money.
Should this be the next Animator's Journey Podcast?
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snagged off facebook, too good not to share
entire rounds spent on this must have cost more than I can ever dream of earning lmfao
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🥊Congrats to
@chrysanim
for finishing this great combat animation during AJ Intermediate.
🗓️Next session starts Sept. 10th, only 3 seats.
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Blender... rotating multiple controls at once: why does it rotate based on the average center of everything selected!?
I can't find an orientation mode that just rotates based on each control's pivot, what other settings are there to fix this? Thanks for the help!
#b3d
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Learn quadruped animation in one of the 12 weeks of Animator's Journey Intermediate course. Animated by
@brendandjcad
as a demo in the course.
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🤸♂️ Consider the 'center of pressure' in your body mechanics:
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I wrote a book about the animation industry - you can get it on Amazon at or you can get 3-bonus ebooks with it if you buy it at
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Switching careers to animation at 39 years old.
That's what
@tomengelhardt
did and we talk about it on this week's Animator's Journey podcast episode:
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1) Scope creep:
Keep your ideas manageable so your shot is as successful as it can be for your skill level with a slight challenge. Start small, build bigger as you go (bigger can mean more subtle too). This goes for length of shot as well as amount within the shot.
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🎡 Rotating doesn't always give you 'free' arcs.
🎦 Be mindful of your camera angle's influence on this.
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Animation Tip: Poor Man's Tween Machine (can also MMB drag to 'steal' a breakdown from other parts of timeline.)
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I almost died 10 years ago.
This week's new AJ Podcast I discuss my journey into animation that includes overcoming debt, divorce, and cancer for me to switch careers:
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6) If someone does give you feedback. Do not implement it. In fact, try to personally attack the person trying to help you.
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2) Learn Substance Painter and Zbrush. They have nothing to do with animation.
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10) Do not take any action until your life is absolutely perfect. Wait until you have infinite amounts of free time and money before you do anything.
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