For the “Arghh” spot I animated the last shot with the two bears. Originally that shot was around 15 seconds long and was a lot of fun getting the acting beats down. Unfortunately for the greater good of the spot it had to go through many cuts so everything would fit into the 30 seconds.

I also animated a handful of other shots in the spot.

Animated the short shot starting at 0:47.

Just another afternoon sketch. I’m not using reference for any of these quick studies. This is something I should start to do as it would speed up my learning…

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Window expands and contracts as needed.

If you’ve done any animation in Maya you’ve probably used the autoTangent and Tween Machine tools by Michael Comet and Justin Barrett respectively. These two tools have been key elements of my animation workflow for as long long time. However amazing they are, they started to show some limitations as my input data started to scale.

Both the Retime and SmoothTangent functions have hotkey entry points – hotkeys can really help speed up your daily output. I’ve listed them at the bottom.

To install Time Bandit just download the TimeBandit.zip file, unzip and place the .pyc files in your Python path. Use the import sys and sys.path.append commands to define a location.

Once you’ve got that just enter;

import TimeBandit

reload(TimeBandit)

Hotkeys

Smooth Tangent

python (“import trSmoothTangentnreload(trSmoothTangent)ntrSmoothTangent.trSmoothTangent(0.0, 0)”)

Retime

Use positive values for pushing time and negative for pulling. If you have a node selected, but no keyframes selected Retime will pivot off of the current frame.

python (“import trRetimentrRetime.trRetime ( 1 )”

Tim