Hi, everyone,

Here is a preliminary character animation of self avatar for my new reel this year. Since I love the movie so much, I was thinking what a 3 meters guy can do if I have my own avatar. And here comes some fun ideas in my mind~ How about cool Rap and Basketball

So I made this animation recently to mimic the Nike freestyle series.
I would like to share some snapshots in my first post in this forum. The full animation can be found in the following links, Thanks for watching. Hope you like it!

Youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7p74RF-TRc
Vimeo:
https://www.vimeo.com/11016465

The whole work tooks about three months, and main workflow of this animation includes:

- modelling, texturing: maya, zbrush, photoshop
- rigging & animation (face, body, hands): maya, motion builder, vicon MoCap system
- simulation (hair, braid, tail, ball, etc): maya
- render: mental ray
- composition: After effects, Premiere

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Here are some basic blendshape for facial animations

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some other animation snapshots....

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Sweet man, that's really well done. I gave you a thumbs up
... and you say preliminary animation? Wow! Looks done to me. (Though maybe a little bit of slipping on the floor, but maybe that's natural, I don't know how sticky avatar feet are)

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Wow, nice animation man! Pretty sweet!

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wow this is really amazing its very well done did you use mo cap
i can see your also a "student" of andrew kramer

Originally posted by murambi
wow this is really amazing its very well done did you use mo cap
i can see your also a "student" of andrew kramer

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:attn: "andrew kramer" is awesome!!!:attn:

Great work man!

Murambi, Yeah mo cap was used, hence the vicon system and, probably, motionbuilder for the clean up and application.

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top notch job of texturing and modeling, only crit i would have said as been mentioned already... got any other projects in mind after this?

Haha that's sick man.

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Awesome job. I get headaches just thinking about the amount of work you must have had with this!
Great job mate!

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I really enjoyed this. great work.

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that was awesome work

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Can we see some pictures of your motion actor?

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