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Reference

Before you start animating, find photo or video reference for the following emotions:

Anger

Joy

Sadness

Fear

Posing the Character

Pose the Franklin Rig on frames 1, 7, 14, and 21 by using Set Keyframe (shortcut S). 

First make sure you’re on one of the above frame #s on your Timeline (Window -> Animation -> Timeline).

Move a joint to where you want it, eg: diamond on the wrist, ring around the foot, ‘hula hoop’ around waist, ring around head.

Press S to Set Keyframe for that particular joint, a thin red line should appear at the left of the frame number. 

Move the character’s major joints into a pose, hitting S once it’s in place, to pose the character in each of the 4 emotions above. 

Remember each joint needs its own keyframe, if there is no keyframe on the joint, it will pop out of place when you move to a different frame on the timeline (and you can’t Undo to get it back, you need to move it in place again and set a keyframe)

Once Your Pose is in Place

Save!

Click or click and drag along the timeline to a different frame to setup a new pose, eg: frame 1 could be Joy, then on Frame 7 create the Anger pose, on Frame 14 create the Sadness pose, Frame 21 the Fear pose.

Leave some frames between the poses, if you need to relocate the keyframes, select the joint(s) that you’ve positioned, right click the timeline on the frame you want, choose Cut or Copy, then right click on the timeline in a different position and choose Paste.

Alternatively you could open the Graph Editor (Windows->Animation Editor -> Graph Editor), select the joints in the perspective view, then click and drag the keyframes in the graph editor to a new location.

Render

Render your 4 poses (you can just use Maya Software renderer) and also post your reference images for each emotion.

Franklin Rig Download Page

https://artella.leadpages.co/artella-character-giveaway/

Its official! In only TWO weeks "Being Good" will premiere at the CTN Animation Expo in Los Angeles!

Big thanks to everyone involved in making this film a reality, especially our sponsors Solid Angle, Frame.io, SyncSketch, Sketchfab, Artella and Studio Gobo!

We are super excited to be featured as part of the Artella panel and short film festival. More Info about our talks and where to find us here:

Anderson Contemporary hosted a pre-show Tea on Mars panel by Erik Sanner as part of its FORWARD SLASH TECHNOLOGY, TRANSCENDENCE & TEA  fine art installation featuring the work of Gary Kaleda, Malin Abrahamsson, and Erik Sanner. Erik had tea with guests and his Tea on Mars installation was also a part of the Animation Nights New York virtual space in High Fidelity.

Animation Nights New York and High Fidelity are presenting a film presentations in Virtual ANNY. Visitors watch an animated short film in the ANNY Virtual Space and then port INTO a scene from the film, and while having an exchange with the director in real time (avatar form). ANNY and High Fidelity had a working demo of this concept ready for the Animation Nights New York 2017 April Animation screening event.

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