big fun - made my first Animation Rig!

have to share my excitements, the Motion-Silverbacks may be gentle to me:
For my latest project, a Birthday video, I need an animated toon character, a slightly modded Senor Rossi (Italian TV, 70ies?)



Soooo...
made a multi-layer Photoshop file (that costs the most time), to seperate the diff. elements, body, cap, arms etc , dropped that into Motion, created a new DropDown Rig, hit Edit Rig, hit REC ...
all changes and keyframes get stored in that rig.

The resulting rigs look insane complex - but I don't have to care, Motion records alll my adjustements I do in the canvas, automatically.




In FCPX I have a simple menu, and the action takes place with the push of a single button.... Just have to place the lil' guy into scenery, or keyframe the looped generator to make him walk across the screen....

Motion makes animations dramatically simple! And fast, the prepping of the pics needed about 2h, the animations less than an hour ... ok, far from broadcast, but, hey, for a hobby project??? :lol:

Karsten,

I think that is awesome. I wish half the editors I've met had the ambition and enthusiasm to dive into Motion as you do.

You are my new idol

thinkfilm wrote: ..
…You are my new idol

haha, thanks for the flowers, there are other, better suited ones.

thinkfilm wrote: ...wish half the editors I've met had the ambition and enthusiasm to dive into Motion as you do.…

guess I made it not clear enough: you need NO diving into Motion!
It's two clicks: Edit Rig, then Rec

You do the animation completely in the canvas, classical keyframing:
position playhead, move object, next.

When you stopped Recording and Edit Rig, this monster of settings in the Rig get AUTOMATICALLY created.
So I created 4 selections, walk left, walk right, jump, spray.
For each you do one recording - that's all, done 'in minutes'

What is timeconsuming is the creation of the .psd with its many layers ..



but in Motion, it's really super-easy ... two clicks.
works, btw, with camera movements too, so, e.g. you could apply cam-presets to titles ...

… to demo how Rigs in M5 work like a 'recorder', I made a lil' tut, here for camera psotions and movements:

www.fcp.co/fcp-forum/7-fcpx-how-to-tutor...video-tutorial#78558