HOW TO ANIMATE DINOSAURS - part 2 — Transcript

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1. 0:02Hello everyone.
2. 0:04And I am the one obscured by myth.
3. 0:08>> Clouded in legend.
4. 0:11The one they call
5. 0:14>> Ball breaker.
6. 0:16And you see I had this funny thing where
7. 0:18I was thinking about what I should do to
8. 0:20celebrate
9. 0:21a 200 subscriber mark.
10. 0:25And as I decided to sleep on it and woke
11. 0:28up the next morning
12. 0:30I thought to myself
13. 0:32might as well just forget about it
14. 0:33because we've blown way past it at this
15. 0:35point.
16. 0:36And I just want to say uh thank you.
17. 0:39Thank you for your enthusiasm.
18. 0:42Thank you for your involvement which
19. 0:43ultimately keeps this thing alive.
20. 0:46I never thought the channel would do
21. 0:47this well.
22. 0:49And so with that said
23. 0:51uh why don't we pick up where we left
24. 0:53off? We still have a whole Carnotaurus
25. 0:55to animate.
26. 0:57So, I'll see you there.
27. 1:00>> [chanting]
28. 1:05[music]
29. 1:08>> So, welcome back.
30. 1:12As you can see here
31. 1:14I have made a second idle animation
32. 1:19with a little bit of more variation.
33. 1:24In this episode we are going to start to
34. 1:27and design some kind of a running
35. 1:30animation.
36. 1:33And therefore
37. 1:36first of all
38. 1:39I think I'm going to keep this scene
39. 1:46and just remove all the animation data.
40. 1:52Just like that.
41. 1:57And we're just going to start from here.
42. 2:07All right, so the first thing I like to
43. 2:09do
44. 2:12is
45. 2:13move the feet.
46. 2:17And we're going to start out by moving
47. 2:19them into a position
48. 2:23where they will start from.
49. 2:26So, I think something like this
50. 2:29should do for now.
51. 2:31>> [clears throat]
52. 2:35>> Let's just bring the whole thing down a
53. 2:37little bit.
54. 2:39Something like that. So, we have a
55. 2:41little bit more
56. 2:43movement
57. 2:45in the legs.
58. 2:51Right, so something like this.
59. 2:56And for walking animations, I like to
60. 2:58put the feet a little bit closer to each
61. 3:01other.
62. 3:11That's good enough.
63. 3:13Right.
64. 3:15So,
65. 3:17let's animate.
66. 3:20So, I'll start by
67. 3:21going to the 12th frame.
68. 3:27From here, I'm going to
69. 3:29put the foot backwards
70. 3:33so that it
71. 3:34closely matches
72. 3:36the left foot.
73. 3:39So, then we have this motion.
74. 3:48So, and since this is going to be a
75. 3:49running animation
76. 3:52because
77. 3:56because this was a sprinting creature
78. 4:00from what I've read
79. 4:02at least.
80. 4:04Uh so we want to create some kind of
81. 4:07sprinting motion which means that
82. 4:10instead of
83. 4:12having the feet slowly go backwards
84. 4:16and then go upwards and back forward
85. 4:20at roughly the same pace.
86. 4:22Um
87. 4:23we want to have them move back fast.
88. 4:28Like it's uh making a little jump each
89. 4:31time.
90. 4:35Which will be clear later on.
91. 4:46Yeah, something like that. A lot faster.
92. 4:50And so from there
93. 4:54let's see.
94. 4:57It will shoot back a little bit more
95. 4:59after it left the ground.
96. 5:29Yeah, I think something like this.
97. 5:37Now, of course
98. 5:40to fine-tune this properly is going to
99. 5:42take some time.
100. 5:45So for the sake of the video,
101. 5:47I will not
102. 5:50go into too much detail over this, or it
103. 5:53will be a very long video.
104. 5:56Although, I do like to get it right
105. 6:01immediately.
106. 6:05You can see it's uh
107. 6:08it's fine.
108. 6:09Like everything is moving as it should.
109. 6:15Except for at the end of the cycle,
110. 6:20where obviously
111. 6:21um the same frame will be replayed
112. 6:24twice.
113. 6:27And I mean, you can
114. 6:30you can fix this by uh putting a frame
115. 6:34uh just in front of the last one.
116. 6:40But, we're not going to do that. We're
117. 6:41going to do it the right way. And so,
118. 6:43this is the point where I introduce the
119. 6:46graph editor.
120. 6:48So,
121. 6:50>> [clears throat]
122. 6:51>> all the way down here on the left side,
123. 6:54on the animation panel, we have this
124. 6:55little clock
125. 6:57and an arrow pointing downwards.
126. 6:59So, we we're going to want to select
127. 7:00that,
128. 7:01and then under the second tab,
129. 7:04uh the animation tab here.
130. 7:07Um we were at timeline,
131. 7:10and now we are going to want to switch
132. 7:12to the graph editor, or shift F6.
133. 7:19And this is where we're going to end up,
134. 7:24which looks like borderline magic.
135. 7:28But, don't worry.
136. 7:30It's not as complicated as it looks.
137. 7:33This is just a 2D representation of
138. 7:36what's actually going on here,
139. 7:38but separated in the three different
140. 7:41axes,
141. 7:42uh marked by their respective color.
142. 7:46Let's see.
143. 7:50Okay, so right here uh the blue axis.
144. 7:58Yes, so it's the Z axis.
145. 8:02So right here it's going up
146. 8:04and goes down
147. 8:06and then goes straight into this line
148. 8:09and right here where it starts
149. 8:11it also comes from a straight line
150. 8:14and then goes down, but what we want
151. 8:17is to make sure that these lines
152. 8:19uh
153. 8:20cross into each other uh perfectly
154. 8:23aligned.
155. 8:24And so not like this.
156. 8:27Oh.
157. 8:28Which is going to cause
158. 8:29uh
159. 8:30some issues with the acceleration.
160. 8:36And so
161. 8:39each frame
162. 8:41is going to be represented by these
163. 8:43uh black dots
164. 8:46which on each end
165. 8:48uh opposite from each other has
166. 8:50this
167. 8:51uh this line
168. 8:54with another ball on the end of it.
169. 8:58And so if you uh select that one and you
170. 9:01move it
171. 9:03as you can see
172. 9:04this manipulates the curve
173. 9:09of the line. And so you can make it
174. 9:11absolutely straight
175. 9:13or you can uh
176. 9:15you can uh put a little curve in it like
177. 9:17this
178. 9:18and so you have a more gradual
179. 9:20acceleration
180. 9:22or a more abrupt one
181. 9:24or
182. 9:27the other way around.
183. 9:29And so what we want right now is uh to
184. 9:32make it go straight.
185. 9:35Like
186. 9:37pretty much so.
187. 9:40We We want to have it under the same
188. 9:42angle
189. 9:43uh as this one, the last one, the one
190. 9:45the last frame.
191. 9:49So, let's see if it took.
192. 9:55That's weird.
193. 9:57But, it did something.
194. 10:00Let's paste that frame at the beginning,
195. 10:02too.
196. 10:02Let's go.
197. 10:06Well,
198. 10:07I'm not going to I'm not going to get it
199. 10:09any better than this.
200. 10:11I'll fix that later.
201. 10:17It's already a little bit better.
202. 10:19Right. So, this is going to be our uh
203. 10:21starting
204. 10:23uh animation.
205. 10:25Very basic, just some movement in the
206. 10:26legs, making the steps.
207. 10:30And uh now we're going to move on
208. 10:35to the body,
209. 10:36and we're going to select the root bone
210. 10:39again.
211. 10:44And like I stated in my intro video,
212. 10:48um
213. 10:50>> [clears throat]
214. 10:51>> in the previous tutorial, actually.
215. 10:55Um because this point is uh
216. 10:59where the legs uh directly attach.
217. 11:03This is where all the force
218. 11:05is immediately transferred to,
219. 11:08and so is also going to experience the
220. 11:11most direct effect.
221. 11:14And I'll show you what I mean by that.
222. 11:17So, from here to here,
223. 11:19the body will move up.
224. 11:25And so, I can't really move
225. 11:27uh
226. 11:28more upward. So, I'm just going to start
227. 11:30by
228. 11:32bringing the entire thing downwards. And
229. 11:36as a matter of fact, I'm going to bring
230. 11:38the whole thing
231. 11:40like this.
232. 11:42So, I have a little bit more uh room.
233. 11:47Right. So, now it's going to go up
234. 11:51like this.
235. 11:53And as it uh propels itself off the
236. 11:57ground,
237. 11:59uh depending on how heavy the creature
238. 12:01is. Now, we know that the Carnotaurus
239. 12:04was a pretty large uh to medium-size uh
240. 12:08theropod.
241. 12:10Not extremely heavy,
242. 12:13but also not extremely light.
243. 12:16Uh so, we are going to want to make this
244. 12:18bounce back time
245. 12:22off the hips
246. 12:25like a medium length.
247. 12:30Yeah, something like this uh is looking
248. 12:33pretty decent.
249. 12:36It's obviously a little bit rough around
250. 12:38the edges right now.
251. 12:43But obviously uh a whole lot of
252. 12:45polishing is going to make this
253. 12:48looking good.
254. 12:53So, this is a solid start. And now,
255. 12:55obviously, the head.
256. 13:00One very important uh
257. 13:02Now, I know I need to do one thing at a
258. 13:03time, but
259. 13:05um
260. 13:08one very important detail is that when
261. 13:11anything is running,
262. 13:15um
263. 13:18the pelvis, like for example,
264. 13:21uh right now
265. 13:23it is uh propelling itself with its left
266. 13:26leg.
267. 13:29And so, if we trace back this motion
268. 13:33here,
269. 13:37like obviously,
270. 13:39um,
271. 13:40the center of gravity is now not exactly
272. 13:44above it.
273. 13:46And what that means is
274. 13:48it's going to experience a force that
275. 13:52will push it sideways a little bit.
276. 13:56If that makes any sense.
277. 13:59Uh, so you'll see what I mean. Now we
278. 14:01have a solid base.
279. 14:03And from here we are going to expand.
280. 14:07Like for example, animating the toes
281. 14:11all the way to the arms.
282. 14:15And
283. 14:17and maybe, um, a little bit of side side
284. 14:20movement for the torso and a little bit
285. 14:21more swaying of the head.
286. 14:24Just making everything, uh, a little bit
287. 14:27more
288. 14:28real.
289. 14:30Like these are obviously touches that,
290. 14:33uh, are going to take some time and need
291. 14:35to be done.
292. 14:39But I think for now it's good enough.
293. 14:41I'm
294. 14:42currently at the 1-hour mark.
295. 14:46So, I think I'm just going to leave this
296. 14:47here.
297. 14:50Uh, thank you for watching and
298. 14:53until next time.
299. 15:08>> [music]