www.luceri.it » fun http://www.luceri.it Computer Graphics Open Source Wed, 28 Jul 2010 22:23:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Microtutorial n°2 http://www.luceri.it/2010/06/microtutorial-n%c2%b02/ http://www.luceri.it/2010/06/microtutorial-n%c2%b02/#comments Wed, 09 Jun 2010 16:20:35 +0000 Fernando Luceri http://www.luceri.it/?p=325 “The gym” is a short movie made by people who have worked exclusively on line without ever meeting physically. Is very rare that such a project comes to an end. This result is due to careful management that is indeed the true intent of the project.  http://www.blenderonlinemoviesproject.com/
For this, is a pleasure to work with them to “the gym 2.
In the first short I noticed immediately that the face of “muscular” was difficult to animate. expressions distorting the mesh so unpleasant. So  the first thing I did was check the topology of the mesh of “mister muscle”.
in edit mode, press the “loopcut and slide” and hover over the mesh, the loops will be highlighted by a purple line.


This will immediately clear if the loops are correct and sufficiently “flowing”.
Loops generally should always be present in places where skin folds and if possible should follow the anatomical lines defined by bones and muscles.
Another thing to avoid are the triangles in areas that will bend. triangles tend to distort the natural flow of the deformation of the skin, like an old scar.
Here illustrates the steps performed

1: removed triangles in areas animated by
2: correction of the nose’s loop ( start from above the nostrils, not below)
3: loop’s eye and lip
4: loops contour the face and front
5: Addition expression’s loops
5b: The good of the flowing loops is that often you can delete them without ruining the shape and topology.

Fernando Luceri

]]> http://www.luceri.it/2010/06/microtutorial-n%c2%b02/feed/ 0 alternative ab-use of grease pencil http://www.luceri.it/2010/02/alternative-ab-use-of-grease-pencil/ http://www.luceri.it/2010/02/alternative-ab-use-of-grease-pencil/#comments Tue, 02 Feb 2010 15:25:32 +0000 Fernando Luceri http://www.luceri.it/?p=177 new features of grease pencil (surface stroke etc.) suggest me some alternative uses of this tool.
some really useful when modeling or animation (we’ll later) other fairly useless but very funny.
like this.

I could say that this technique facilitates the sketch 2D
(position in space of stroke, lights and shadows etc) but in reality it is just “artistic”.
maybe some of you will find a more productive use!

Fernando Luceri

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