What's the most animatable human model available?

Hey everyone. I want to start touching up on my character animation skills...BIG TIME. Out of all my VFX work, animation is the thing I've neglected.

Could someone please point me in the direction of a human like cg model (I'm using 3dsMAX 6) that is just simple and perfect for animating. I don't care at all for textures or increadible detail or what not...just something I can move around and play with.

Cheers.
-soedigital@iinet.net.au

 

Eh?

 

Well if you want to learn to animate characters, you're going to have to learn how to rig them someday too. It is not very likely that, in the future of your cg career, you will be handed a pre-rigged character to simply animate. It is much more likely, that you'll be handed a modeled character that you'll have to rig and animate. The two go somewhat hand-in-hand.

I suggest you find tutorials on rigging, then you can learn how to animate characters. The more versatile you are, the better. Or, if you have character studio, just whip up a biped and play around with that. That's the easiest thing to animate, in my opinion.

Remember, google searches are your friends.

 

Why do you need a human character. If you want to learn and practice animation, a simple model (boxes and spheres, or a simpler humanoid shape) would be more than enough. See the simplified models Jeff Lew and Jeremy Cantor use for teaching:

Jeff Lew website
Jeremy Cantor website

or better yet the ones used in the George Maestri books.

 

Cheers guys..I'll look into rigging stuff

Oh and I can animate objects and all that fine, it's just I've tried animating fluid human movements like walking and sitting and all that and never could get it right.