Don't be discouraged when your first animations don't look great. My first were absolutely awful, and I think I've still got a render of ODX's first lying around somewhere.... The point is, keep practicing. Observe animations done by professionals, or more experienced animators in the community, and try to see what they've done right and wrong. If you need advice or crit, you can message me.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQ2iXk3obfo&feature=channel_video_title
What a coincidence! I just uploaded my anims too.
It's the disc launcher from way earlier in this topic.

And I can vouch that it wasn't particularly impressive. Haha, it was a flag melee and it wasn't even rendered directly out of Max but instead I had the separate frames and did a shoddy attempt at putting it together in Windows Movie Maker.

I don't actually have the scene for that flag melee anymore, but I have the origin for it as well as my first 5 reloads.

can i ask where to get that DMR model so i can has try at animating?

http://hce.halomaps.org/index.cfm?fid=5982


EDIT:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etNNmtnK3O4
try of the reach shotgun melee
is no exactly the same


Edited by 6thLoneWolf on Aug 23, 2011 at 05:13 AM

Looks pretty good. Just work on your return to origins and you'll be golden. I think you passed the point where you can really call your self a decent halo fp animator.

I think you could work on your timing but you've definitely got a few good things going on there. Really what I think you need is better definition on your motions - for example, the shotgun's fire seems to just go back with no real response afterwards (or a response to the pump being... pumped, is that the verb?)

Play around with adding snap (but not too much) and like I said, "definition" (easy way to get more of this is by splitting position/rotation keyframes, allowing certain components to hang for a few frames with only a little motion). You're on the right track.

Thank you so much guys
Edited by 6thLoneWolf on Aug 23, 2011 at 07:56 PM

1st try and its already better than me :P

Nice job lonewolf :) Continuing like this: D

And spartan 279 you just need practise ;) :D

Yeah, I really like the walking animation on that one!

I keep meaning to get back into actually finishing some of my tags, I have that SMG model which is partially unwrapped, and the MA5k... It's infuriating that I never seem to get anywhere with them. Just gotta put some solid serious time into it and set myself some targets...

Animating does look a little daunting though, I'm really keen to give it a go. Just gotta get off my arse!

This is how i think the reach DMR should look.

http://www.megapix.com/?p=9ML9H5GS

please please coment thx. :)

and yeah i made it.

btw pls point out the things i should fix i dont mind. xd :)

credits ODX for the arms and frmt for the dmr model and ME for puting it together.
Edited by Spectre_the_grunt on Aug 26, 2011 at 02:58 AM

sup

heh nice AR model looks great. XD

Nice bake :P

Lets see how mine turns out when I'm finished with what i'm working on for practice :P Not done modeling for AGES! Forgot afew techniques lol
Edited by anonymous_2009 on Aug 26, 2011 at 03:58 PM

I recently got into Halo stuff. I'm not totally new to animating anyway...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YeG21nS3IKU

I'd like to hear your opinions!

That's just awesome dude :D

Nice! Also, nice other animations. I spent some time looking at a few others of yours and damn they look nice!

You don't hold that rifle like that... they weigh a ton, trust me.

Lol, you definately have a point. Those WWII rifles weighed a lot more than the weapons that we use now.

I think the main problem with the way he is holding it is that the rifle is a bit small. In reality they are larger than that, and you would hold further out on the rifle with your left hand to give yourself the leverage that you would need to hold the rifle steady for any length of time.
Edited by Yoda on Aug 27, 2011 at 03:09 PM

I have never played fallout, but that gun is an m1 garand. (and at least the sounds I am pretty sure are ripped from CoD 5 World at War)

Lets play a game! Guess that gun!

Same, but mine.

"this machine" is a modified m1 garand that fires a bit slower than your average, but anyway fallout's animations are horrible compared to other games, such as COD and halo, I would never recommend trying to make fp weapon animations similar to fallout's

:( You two read my mind or something and decide to do one too! :O

Not posting mine for a while though. :P

What are you talking about? He's holding it fine. And I Like this entire animation set. I wouldn't mind playing with that model either..

He is holding it with the majority of the hand on the top of the rifle, and looks like the weight of the arm si on top of the weapon. When really he should be holding it on the side with the palm placed on the side of the weapon, not on the top.

If that makes an sense at all. Trust me, ive fired a rifle like this and that is not a comfortable or logically way to hold it. I'm talking about the right hand by the way.

I'm in need of assistance...
I decided to scratch my previous animations (they were just beginner crash course anyway)
and start new ones.
Only problem is, I get my gun in, done the animations, but when I export, it takes a fraction of a second.
So I look in the JMA and there's nothing in there. What might be the problem?

Just out of curiousity, what rifle have you fired like that one

Is it just me or is there a major proportion problem with those hands and the rifle :\ The M1 Garand is a large heavy rifle as 2009 was saying. The problem is especially visible during the reload and melee animations. Also, holding the Garand in one hand out straight in front of you would be extremely difficult as it is during the grenade throw. The actual movements of the animations are quite nice, fluid and realistic. :)

it would be pretty cool if you used those animations on a m1 carbine and made a different reload those animations would suit it much more because its a smaller rifle. animations are beats :).

m1 carbine:


lol its my favourite gun in waw to

ingame!






Edited by Invader Veex on Aug 28, 2011 at 05:27 AM

made another

I am working on a model of an m91/30 Mosin Nagant.







Any advice/comments/criticizm/insults/compliments are welcome.

I think you're looking at it wrong. what you see over the weapon is the thumb, not the palm. Also I've used an m1 before too, so I know what you're talking about. However to animate the rifle in a way that would be comfortable to hold in reality, would not look good at all.