Clearly everyone's too busy working on their own entries... oh well I won once,
what more can I expect?
;)

Nah I'm just kidding I know this group doesn't get a lot of traffic. But
seriously, any and all suggestions for my character animation attempt would be
much appreciated, as you can see it has a long way to go...

-- 
Tek
www.evilsuperbrain.com

"Tek" <tek### [at] evilsuperbraincom> wrote in message news:40c17295@news.povray.org...
> Okay, well with little over a month to go to the deadline for the current IRTC
> round, I have managed to get a character that walks. Wow! uh... yeah... I've
not
> been able to spend as much time povving as I'd like to, but I still think I
can
> get this into some kind of nice animation for the competition deadline.
>
> Anyway, that's not the point of this post. I'm also planning on developing
this
> into some kind of comprehensive pov-based character animation system,
primarily
> for my own use but if it's good then I'll gladly share it!
>
> So, what I'd like is suggestions on where to go from here. At present the
> character is animated using positions of base points (hands, feet, and waist),
> which are currently following a collection of sine curves. I'm thinking the
> things to look at immediately are:
> 1/ using splines to animate the control points
> 2/ adding joints to those stretchy limbs
> 3/ getting him to do something more interesting, like dancing maybe!
>
> I'd really appreciate your suggestions on what else could be improved, what
> things look good and what doesn't, and just generally any ideas you folks have
> for where I should take this.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> -- 
> Tek
> www.evilsuperbrain.com
>
>
>

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