Links

Links

Here's a spot to put hyperlinks of interest. 

m02
Valence and Arousal
HIMYM - "The Captain"
The McGurk Effect
Can You Spot the Fake Smile?

m05
Edgar Wright - How to Do Visual Comedy
Chris Williams - Rough Animation test for Mayor Shelbourne

m06
James "JC" Chiang. - Phrasing in Animation
Eric Larson - The Phrasing of Action and Dialogue

Justin S Barrett - The Tween Machine
(Tween Machine alternate download - highend3d)
Sebastian Castilho - How to use the Tween Machine
Tween Machine Documentation

Tracking Viewer Gaze Location
The DIEM Project

Some Acting Tips




Great Facial Reference: Howard Schatz - "In Character" Photography series for Vanity Fair

Photo Series #1, and Photo Series #2

























Scared people

Spungella - Links to animation rigs 
Spungella - Best of Articles
Victor Navone - Tutorials


Interesting Animation:
Salesman Pete
Meet Buck 
Is Tropical - The Greeks 
Mac 'n' Cheese 
Blik
Cuisine chinoise Jin Kum, Dim Sum  


Jeff Gabor, Ice Age shot breakdown
  
Good Reference Books
Debugging, by David J. Agans
How Cheat in Maya 2012, by Eric Luhta
Unmasking the Face 2002, by Paul Ekman & Wallace Friesen

Facial Expressions: A Visual Reference for Artists. by Mark Simon


Maya Utilities:
An article on "Drawing your Timing"
Exporting animation from Maya:


Using the Camera Sequencer:
Video Tutorial
Maya 2011 Docs

Morpheus Links: 
A place building costumes for the Morpheus Rig - maybe you'd like to contribute some costumes and props of your own? Check out the blog and contact me at dglatour@gmail.com
http://ecmwp.blogspot.com/

Download the Morpheus or "Morphy" Rig here:

Josh Burton's Tutorial Videos
check out Morpheus 102,103 and 104:
they cover the functionality of the Morphy rig.
  

Video Capture and Conversion:
Go here to get a plugin to allow you to download YouTube and Vimeo videos:
firefox addon - video-downloader-player

Two online converters, for audio and video format conversion:
online-convert.com

mediaconverter.org

clipnabber.com

If I'm shooting my own reference, all of these criteria should be met.


A quick visual guide on constraining vs. snapping


Polish each item in order, using the strategies listed for best results















































Video tutorials by Keith Lango on making good key poses:











Here's another short page talking about elements of good posing. The drawings in this article are not great, but the notion is relevant:
Strength in Posing

A .pdf sheet describing animation workflow
Heirarchy of Dependency

A cool website showing frame by frame breakdowns of great animation.
http://framexframe.tumblr.com/

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