I finished this animation last night. Took around 150 hours (including rendering, editing etc). I still can't believe i did it. I set this as a goal when i finished this model 1 year ago, and at the time i had zero knowledge of rigging or animation (other than simple camera animations). My thread where i was asking rigging questions is still up on the board >>1004617 which is kinda funny. And now i made this: https://files.catbox.moe/es25l3.mp4
>>1021484Love the moves, love the butt, love your work. That's great work and you are a credit to this board
>>1021485Thanks !
>>1021484This is really inspirational! I remember your progress in the other thread and it's really good to see you reached a finished animation, and a real cool one at that. It's great to see people are actually making stuff around here. Thank you for sharing the result!
>>1021499thanks anon
>>1021486put as much effort you put into everything you do into fixing the shoulders
Nice animation, how do you use your reference video in your work flow? I'm trying to learn with a dance video as a reference but everything looks and feels choppy even when I trace it frame by frame.
>>1021484That character looks zesty for some reason.
>>1024478i set up some of the main key poses of the dance (or part of it) evenly split (like every 8-12 frames or so a key pose) and when each key pose looked right i started adjusting their timing and adding extra key frames and corrective poses in between the main ones. The hardest part was definitely making sure it syncs with the song. Plus i had to cut some of the animations out in editing, maybe like 6 seconds of extra animation. Cuz it didn't fit with the song.
>>1021484Kick ass animation, Anon. Obviously there's things to improve on like trying to get smoother movements, but it's awesome that you finished something.
