Stop Motion 2 - Spidey DancesMay 18, 2010
- Project Date:May 18, 2010
What started as a simple walk across the frame turned into a full minute long routine. I had the movie Beetlejuice on in the background while working on this and things just sort of snowballed from there. It's one of the more memorable scenes and I hope I did it justice. Some of the moves just aren't possible with Minimate articulation so I improvised a bit.
Okay enough with the deception. It's probably obvious that this is not stop motion animation. I didn't take 2000 photos and synchronize them to Harry Belafonte. It's actually a CG animation of a virtual Spider-Man Minimate using the excellent Blender 3D Content Creator.
Creating the Minimate model was not too difficult. After all, I had a physical representation I could take measurements from and replicate. Even creating the Spidey texture maps weren't so bad once I figured out the best way to unwrap the model. For me, the animating was the timesink.
I followed several tutorials to create the skeleton rigging, but without any experience I couldn't tell what features it really needed to behave like a MInimate. Thankfully now I know what I need it do, the next version should be much more usable.
Look for more renders and animations in the future.
