3D Animation Overview Tutorial

like how I saw u had the 3-d drawing in 2-d so do u draw the character from all sides and scan it(cuz when I scan my drawing it dosn't show alot of detail)ps:I've never done 3-d animation before(I'll download bender or pencil 2 test my skillz)

The 3D application "Blender" is pretty poopular & Free. It looks like some nice stuff has been done with it as well. There's also free 2D animation software called "pencil" that's free. As far as jobs that go under drawing...Illustration, 2D animation, storyboarding, Fine Arts, any kind of design field. Truthfully, any art related career, you will need to have a good solid foundation in traditional art & drawing. That goes for 3D animation as well.

cheers bruv! downloading maya as we speak :D fanks for sharing ur skills it much appreciated!

I hav a question 1st what are the good softwares that can be bought or free for this animation stuff...2nd is that I am a really good artist on some good occuations and what are some jobs that go under drawing and stuff? (and im a freshmen as of now)

Hey thanks for replying, wat i didnt understand was, if they already animated at a low res, how did they transfer the animation on to the high res? Coz i saw them 1st animate the character at a low res and then saw them adding fur lighting etc on the high res, they didnt show the switch in-between high and low, is there any tutorial on that?

Thank you for ur help

A character can have two versions of the model attached to the skeleton. A low-Res version (which is very simple & blocky looking), and a high-Res version. The visibility of each version is either turned on or off. In the case of a character with fur, the fur itself can be turned off during animation, then turned on when needed. Its much faster to work with the low-rez on and the high-Rez off. Come render time, the low-rez will be turned off and hi-rez & fur turned on".

Hey this is kool! i got a quick question, Ive seen "inside pixars" on youtube, i think on video 2 they show how 3D animation (monsters Inc) is done, the characters seems to be at a low res animated, and then they add fur to it, how does that work? Plz chek da video and explain plz. Thank you.

That was the best run through ever. Clear, Consise,tight and to the point. Now if only I could afford the program then we'd be in business.

I think is the same concept for 3ds max to

More to come. Keep checking back! Thanks!

Great job!
I'd be great if you could do a tutorial showing the process more in details!

thanks, good job man

Great Vid! I'm adding this to my favorites.

Well, it has only been up on youtube for a couple of days now!! Hopefully more people will se this also!!

its so sweet and cool! it inspires everyone to make animations! i love this vid... but i dont know why it has so less views...lol =p