Assessment 2 - Online Progress Update 3
As I planned, I started to work on character animation on week 10. I decided to animate my character with bunny motion, which is jumping motion like a rabbit.
As I mentioned before, I got an idea from D.Va’s mech when I building the character feet, and I also got an idea of animate one of the D.Va’s emotion, which is showing in above gif file. My robot looks like a rabbit, so I think that jumping emotion will be suitable with my robot. However, unfortunately, I cannot animate in very detail like D.Va’s bunny hop emotion, so I decided to animate with simple jumping emotion. The animation was planning to finish until week 12, but I finished it up in week 10. Therefore, I can move on to next step, which moves to Unreal Engine 4.
I finished with animating the character in Maya, I have to export and import into Unreal Engine 4 to create the environment for character and sequencer. After I finish with working on Unreal Engine 4, I will export the sequencer and move on to Adobe After Effect to create the sequencer to a video. This will be on progress in week 10 to 12.
In the last update, I was finished with building character, skeleton, and gave them controller handles. This week I had animate my character as I researched before animate the character, which is D.Va’s bunny hop emotion. There is the video below shows the result of my animation.
Video: https://youtu.be/OCIy9QRu2R8
I did not have special issues with animating a character. This is because I already did the research for the animation that I want to develop my character, which gave me the guideline to animation. However, the next thing, import to Unreal Engine 4 gave me the problem. I did export as my tutor taught me in the last couple of week, but somehow, when I import it into Unreal Engine 4, it did not work as I expected and did not work as the projects I have done in the earlier semester.
Therefore, I am going to figure out the reason the import animation and character to Unreal Engine 4 are not working properly. I have to figure out this problem as fast as possible because if I could not solve this problem I cannot continue my project and finish it up.
