Thanks for all your help dudes, I finally finished my first project. It isn't great, but its definit - Games

[url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEdvK9rbx8w[/url] I still need a lot of practice with just about every aspect, I know. I plan to keep making these to keep me motivated and keep practicing. Thanks for all the help you guys have provided me so far, it's helped me a lot.

haha that was hilarious. awesome work

Very impressive first project! I would suggest adding breathing animations to the character. Keep up the great work.

[QUOTE=sonosublime;45031540]Very impressive first project! I would suggest adding breathing animations to the character. Keep up the great work.[/QUOTE] Well, actually I did add breathing animation, I made it very subtle and with my inexperience I also accidentally reset the playhead for him and all that animation stopped. You can see it right when the camera first comes up to his face and stays still for a few seconds, but once it starts to pan its not noticeable, and when it stops panning that is where I screwed up and the animation was erased. I screwed up, I know, there was so many things I was trying to learn that it slipped past me. It was one of the first things I did on this project, now I know it should be one of the last things as to avoid forgetting about it. Good catch though, when I animated it I had people like you with the observation of details in mind, but I failed to follow through, I now have a better understanding of my priorities.

-snip because i totally didn't realize it was fixed-

[QUOTE=blackachu;45039660]How'd you fix the flexes on the HL2 citizen's eyes? Last I checked, no one can get them to work.[/QUOTE] Sorry I'm not experienced enough yet to know what flexes are exactly. So are you saying people haven't been able to get the HL2 models to blink, move their eyebrows, move their eyes, or things like that?

[QUOTE=Yosminkov;45039870]Sorry I'm not experienced enough yet to know what flexes are exactly. So are you saying people haven't been able to get the HL2 models to blink, move their eyebrows, move their eyes, or things like that?[/QUOTE] Huh. I just went to test it out and it works now. Must've been some update. But yeah, originally Half Life 2 citizen's eyes couldn't shut.

[QUOTE=Yosminkov;45031900]Well, actually I did add breathing animation, I made it very subtle and with my inexperience I also accidentally reset the playhead for him and all that animation stopped. You can see it right when the camera first comes up to his face and stays still for a few seconds, but once it starts to pan its not noticeable, and when it stops panning that is where I screwed up and the animation was erased. I screwed up, I know, there was so many things I was trying to learn that it slipped past me. It was one of the first things I did on this project, now I know it should be one of the last things as to avoid forgetting about it. Good catch though, when I animated it I had people like you with the observation of details in mind, but I failed to follow through, I now have a better understanding of my priorities.[/QUOTE] It happens mate. In my first movie, at some points, I forgot to add breathing animations to the character. When I noticed it, I was very annoyed, but going back to add breathing animations would mean I would have to redo the entire animation again :suicide:

[QUOTE=sonosublime;45040071]It happens mate. In my first movie, at some points, I forgot to add breathing animations to the character. When I noticed it, I was very annoyed, but going back to add breathing animations would mean I would have to redo the entire animation again :suicide:[/QUOTE] It actually didn't seem to bad to me, I just grabbed the shoulderblades and had them rotate back and slightly upwards a little, then just copy/paste it over and over in the graph editor, looked pretty good when it was still there. I don't think it will be too hard to add it in after doing the other animation, I'll try it next time I need it in there and see how difficult it is. [editline]8th June 2014[/editline] [QUOTE=blackachu;45039943]Huh. I just went to test it out and it works now. Must've been some update. But yeah, originally Half Life 2 citizen's eyes couldn't shut.[/QUOTE] Luckily his eyes can be opened just enough to give him that crazy look, so long as his eyes face straight ahead. I was sad that I can not make his eyes face two different directions though, I thought it would add so much more to this video. I could get them to part just a tad bit so he at least looked a little bit silly, I considered having them both aiming towards his nose when he first opened his eyes which the model seems to allow, but with that it just seemed like I would be trying too hard to make a joke.