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# 1 21-11-2007 , 07:26 AM

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im working on this clip of a footballer performing tricks.

Its taken me 5 days so far, and ive set myself a completion target of 2 months so should be polished by then.

BTW in case you're wondering the arms have been hidden for simplicity until i come to animate them.

Any feeback, critique and advice welcome

thanx

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# 2 21-11-2007 , 08:55 AM

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cool, fun to watch.

the crit i have is the ball seems weightless.
when the foot hits the ball the foot should stop in its tracks and sit still for a couple frames.

and the ball might look a bit better if it squished a bit or a bit more when it was kicked.

and the ball moves a bit too fast.

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# 3 21-11-2007 , 12:57 PM

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yeh thnx. i see that. i make some tweaks to the ball. None of my curves are touched yet anyway, im just blocking out the animation. so hopefully should all come into place.

Thanx for ur help, il post updates

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# 4 21-11-2007 , 05:33 PM

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heres a few tweaks to the curves of character and ball. only subtle.

btw this will look very stiff, as its in the very early stages.

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# 5 21-11-2007 , 05:39 PM

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sorry,...heres the link lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTdkOC66I9o

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# 6 22-11-2007 , 01:17 AM

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I enjoyed watching that MR pix user added image

well done.

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# 7 22-11-2007 , 01:39 PM

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thanx il post updates in about a week or so, so you can see the difference.

thanx again. Any advice is much appreciated

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# 8 22-11-2007 , 03:19 PM

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# 9 22-11-2007 , 03:29 PM

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Very nice animation! I really like the simplicity of the model, the movements are very fluid and I really like the slight exaggerations in the ball physics. I can't wait to see this against a city park with hippies and kids in the background looking on. I guess a soccer field could work, maybe you could change the ball to a hack sack, triple the model and have them pass the bag back and forth. This is going on the myspace page. Please stage the releases of updates to youtube, I would like to see the progression

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# 10 27-11-2007 , 11:36 AM

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hey nice comments man, thanx. Il keep you guys posted as i go.

The only problem im having is the animation is becoming too long for my playblasts so im gonna have to do batch renders at the lowest quality. Il keep you posted though.

And thanx again, feedback was awesome and any help is much appreciated

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# 11 27-11-2007 , 11:43 AM

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To long for playblasts? I thought playblasts could be as long as the timeline?

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# 12 27-11-2007 , 11:55 AM

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Err yeah, just set the start and the end frames, or am I missing something?????

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# 13 27-11-2007 , 12:46 PM

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nope wont work. i set the times the same as i usually do, but now ive got like 900 frames it wont work.

// Error: out of disk space. Deleting playblast files //
// Error: could not open or create movie file //
currentTime 200 ;

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# 14 27-11-2007 , 02:30 PM

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sounds like you just dont have enough space on your harddrive for them - but I've had problems where playblasts just quit on you before reaching the duration of the animation on my school computers :p

This can be due to a problem in space, some themes with XP, etc. I've read you can right click on Maya and go to properties and run it in win2k mode... some sort of problem with it not automatically purging the cache or something.

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# 15 29-11-2007 , 07:30 PM

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yeah im gonna do a disc cleanup and have a good tidy up myself of my hard drive, got loadsa crap on it that needs deleting. Thats probably it.

Soon as im done, il post an update this weekend so i can get some feedback from you guys.

Thanx!
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