CG Channel Thing Part 2

The second part of that CG Channel training introduction thingy went live on the internet this past Monday. It shows a little better what they are going for, and even features a brief bit of Emilio's animation work.

I think it's going to be a very good buy for people with even a passing interest in animation. I always like to see how people go through the process, so it'll be interesting for me, at least. With that said, I don't really think that the technique for "muscle mass" that was shown in the clip worked as well as it could. I can certainly see what Jonathan is going for (the reaction of the muscles to the impact of the foot fall), but adding this visual discontinuity makes it look like a knee pop on a rig with such little complexity. It might have been better to hold off on this technique until a more detailed character was used.

Anyway, I'm not going to get into niggly bits when the overall thing looks very promising, so a big woo to those guys!