looking for animal animator

Ravnheart

Hi everyone, I am currently looking for someone that can do really good animal animations. For example walk cycle, run cycle, and jump. Needs to be as realistic as possible.

You can conatact me here or though private messages.

Redfern

From the title alone, one could confuse the request as one where a dog or maybe a lemur is sitting in front of the computer clicking the mouse with their paws.

Sincerely,

Bill

Chohole

Redfern said:

From the title alone, one could confuse the request as one where a dog or maybe a lemur is sitting in front of the computer clicking the mouse with their paws.

Sincerely,

Bill

I have a cat that tries to click the mouse because she has learned that the human does things with the mouse to get cat videos on the screen.

Ivy

I do have to say animal animation would be a heck of a challenge . But when it comes to animal motions  in DAZ Studio I pretty much stick to toon animals for animation. only because creating  photorealistic animal animation in daz studio is very time consuming to be cost effective on a individual project and even then I would not promise  the motions would be very realistic..  unless I had "kinect" or some other way to capture real animal motions.  for me to  just to hand keyframe a mill-cat walking a 30 keyframe cycle takes me 2-4 days to make it look right there is lots of bones that require movements.

 you can see what I mean in this animation I did

 

wolf359

Indeed quadripeds are tough even in more advanced programs
programs like Iclone.
Without mocap and  I wont even attempt quadripeds.

Ivy

With "Toon Animals"  you have a lot more poetic license. because they are toons & you can humanize them making them easier bond with the viewer

 these are just a few of my toon animals animations 

Ravnheart

I would love to use toons but its not possible for this project,

I will be paying for the work, but it needs to be as real as possible.

Mocap right now is not possible hench why I am asking for someone that is really good at animations.

Ivy

I work with daz studio for animation as a independent animator alot. Ive been doing it a long time.  &  I'll be honest even though i feel I'm pretty good at animating with daz studio. photorealistic animals in animation would be beyond my expertise. and I feel my work would not fore fill your requirements satisfactory.   it was worth a try , I'm sorry I couldn't help .

WendyLuvsCatz

Anymatter KA06059 made the best Millenium cat motions I ever found and they work with some adjustments on most four legged critters, just renaming some bones in files often all thats needed, he used to be at Renderosity, then YurDigital, I got his motions years before free  but made a donation, I recall because he tossed in his gorilla motions afterwards, I think he might be at Hivewire3d now.

wolf359

The lack of an IK/foot contact solver in Daz studio (ATM) 
is exacerbated with qaudripeds, particulary with gracefully moving 
animals like felines etc.

With  biped humanoids  one can "cheat" by framing  most of one's shots above the knees.
however that is not really a realistic option with four legged animals due to how they are typically 
framed in films.

@Raveheart  best wishes for your project, I hope you find a solution.

Ryuu@AMcCF

I'm just imagining gluing the pingpong references to a cat's joints for some motion capture sessions--now THAT would be entertainment! 

But for Ravenheart's project, probably the easiest thing would be to seek out stock footage of whatever critters you're wanting to do from something like nature films and try to manually duplicate the poses at a number of keyframes as they're walking/running/fighting/etc and let the tweening function fill in the rest. Of course, you may need to tweek and add keyframes and poses as you progress, but you should be pretty close to realistic motion after five or six itinerations.