Maya animation update 4
Added 2025-03-11 15:38:28 +0000 UTCA quick update on the animation.
It's going well with the animation refinement for the first 2710 out of 4600 frames. What takes a long time at the moment, is getting the hand and finger movement down, as well as getting it right.
The way the fingers bend and move over the surface of the body, determines how firm or soft the area seems to look like. For example, when the hand is pushed into the fat, the fingers tend to bend back a little, or when pressing a finger into it, the finger tip will often bend back as well.
There was also a bunch of changes to the finger and hand placement. The hands would sometime float over the body surface, which was only revealed after doing a test physics bake.
As I write this update I'm doing yet another test bake, as parts of the animation needed time tweaking. The movements felt a bit too fast for a character with that amount of heft. ^^
