Looking for an animator

[Josh]

I am looking for someone to add some animations to the soldier character. I need the following cycles:

 

-idle

-run

-run left

-run right

-run backwards

-turn feet left

-turn feet right

 

The character should be posed to hold a rifle-type gun in each animation.

[AggrorJorn]

I'll give it a shot tomorrow. I'll post you a temp result in the evening. question: what do you mean with run left and right? strafe? Like in Max Payne?

 

And with turn lefft and right I asume the character turns 45 degrees left or right?

[Josh]

Do you have a portfolio? What kind of animation work have you done?

[Naughty Alien]

..i wouldnt ask for portfolio if guy doing animation for free..if it is good, just take it, if not, well..at least he did try to help

[Josh]

I am asking because I don't want to waste his time. I also don't expect this to be free.

[AggrorJorn]

well I'm offering it for free. How about this: This afternoon or in the evening you ll receive a file from me with animation. If you don't like it, you pick someone else.

[flachdrache]

How about .bvh files for that matter or a skeleton that can use one of the free library(s)

like - no idea how much tweaking would be needed though.

[AggrorJorn]

The only experience I have with character animation is footstep animation in 3d max. This differs a bit from game animation as the character actually moves forward. I though I had enough skill for this to put off a simple result for now. But thats unforunately not true. Have a look at the max file but I doubt if thats good enough. I know a program that contains the animations you need though. It's called CharacterShop. It contains 80 animations, with your requests among them. I don't know if you are allowed to use those animations for distribution to the enitre leadwerks conmmunity.

 

---edit--

Looks like my upload qouta is reached or something.

Download

[Marleys Ghost]

The only experience I have with character animation is footstep animation in 3d max. This differs a bit from game animation as the character actually moves forward. I though I had enough skill for this to put off a simple result for now. But thats unforunately not true. Have a look at the max but I doubt if thats good enough. I know a program that contains the animations you though. It's called CharacterShop. It contains 80 animations with your requests among them. I don't if you are allowed to use those animations for distribution to the enitre leadwerks conmmunity.

 

 

 

Do you mean this Character Shop ?

 

Q. Are there any licensing restrictions for the models I make with Character Shop?

End users are allowed to use animated models created with Character Shop in any commercial or non-commercial projects. However, users may not sell the animated models they make with Character Shop, in any sort of product where the animated models are the product. This would basically amount to selling the animations we paid to have made. The animations included in this file are the property of Josh / Leadwerks, and may not be used by anyone who does not own a license for the program, i.e. they may not be 'ripped' from a game a legitimate user releases.

[AggrorJorn]

Do you mean this Character Shop ?

 

 

 

euhm yes thats the one. I don't get it. If Josh made these animation for Charactershop, why would he ask for new animations that are almost the same like the ones that come with the program.

• rifle_run
• rifle_run_backward
• rifle_run_left
• rifle_run_right
• rifle_turn_left
• rifle_turn_right

[Marleys Ghost]

euhm yes thats the one. I don't get it. If Josh made these animation for Charactershop, why would he ask for new animations that are almost the same like the ones that come with the program.

• rifle_run
• rifle_run_backward
• rifle_run_left
• rifle_run_right
• rifle_turn_left
• rifle_turn_right

 

 

I am sure he has his reasons .. or there are reasons ..

[Jordan]

euhm yes thats the one. I don't get it. If Josh made these animation for Charactershop, why would he ask for new animations that are almost the same like the ones that come with the program.

• rifle_run
• rifle_run_backward
• rifle_run_left
• rifle_run_right
• rifle_turn_left
• rifle_turn_right

 

Quality perhaps? I'm sure they were made a long time ago

[Pixel Perfect]

Maybe because its a nightmare to get the models scaled correctly to use it ... it has no scaling facility in the application itself. Also, the verticies can only be tied to a single bone where as vertex weightings to four or more is common these days giving much more control over the mesh deformation. Having said that, I actually think the animations are very good!

[Josh]

I can't view your animation right now because I do not have 3ds max.

 

If you are not an expert at animating, I would not put any more time into it. Thanks for trying to help, though.

[Sooshi]

If you like what you see then I will animate the character for you

 

Yoshi in a walk cycle

 

Just some practice

 

This animation is in its first step tangent phase, so its choppy because I was roughing it out, cant find the actual finished aniamtion file

 

Trying to practice storyboard driven animations

 

A custom rig I made for someones model in case you dont want to utilize biped for the soldier model

 

One of my Facial Rigging examples

[Josh]

Unfortunately, I can't see what I am looking for examples of in those videos. I contacted the guy who made the FPSC character animations.

[Sooshi]

Unfortunately, I can't see what I am looking for examples of in those videos. I contacted the guy who made the FPSC character animations.

 

Ah ok no problem