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Tony Hardy said:
I always used to put my milk in first, so when I made this, it'd have been accurate.

Now, I'm a water then milk kind of guy!
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Water and then milk is the only way forward. Literally, since the tea bag can't infuse properly if it's in milk, and not hot water.

To bring this back on topic, I just remembered that one of my University animation projects is on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFtIPr4z2RM
 
I want to take this topic back off topic and talk about tea, but I'm going to make a specific post just for that!
 
Tony Hardy said:
I want to take this topic back off topic and talk about tea, but I'm going to make a specific post just for that!
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To quote Senor Chang, I'll allow it.
 
There is an amazing plugin called Duik which means you can animate characters limbs in the same way you would using Inverse Kinematics in 3D software. Really nice and eliminates any need I previously had for flash !
 
CANVisEffects said:
There is an amazing plugin called Duik which means you can animate characters limbs in the same way you would using Inverse Kinematics in 3D software. Really nice and eliminates any need I previously had for flash !
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In After Effects can't you just use the puppet tool for that?
 
Not really used the puppet tool that much but I can vouch for this plugin .. the little front flip at the start of my reel uses AE and the Duik plugin
 
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Yeah, DuIK tools is totally awesome. Especially the IK stuff. The puppet tool doesn't offer an IK solver, it's a mesh deformer. You can of course us DuIK and the puppet tool together though.
For what it's worth, I agree with pretty much everyone else — AE is a fantastic tool which covers compositing (for when you do start working with C4D), and motion graphics equally well. The vast majority of my work is done with AE. Like a lot of people above have mentioned, many assets are created elsewhere then animated in AE, as you would imagine AE talks incredibly fluently with Photoshop, Illustrator and Premiere.
Nice to see a bit more life in this section of the forum again.
 
What's Cinema 4D like to use? I applied for an editing job this week, and they said that experience with 4D would be an advantage.
 
I'm not a heavy user, but from what I know and what I've seen of it, it's amazeballs. It's surprisingly easy to get started, but it very quickly gets a bit intimidating when you move on to more advanced stuff.
I can't think why an editor would need to know C4D, unless it's just for familiarity with the workflow. You certainly wouldn't do any editing with it!
 
matt said:
I'm not a heavy user, but from what I know and what I've seen of it, it's amazeballs. It's surprisingly easy to get started, but it very quickly gets a bit intimidating when you move on to more advanced stuff.
I can't think why an editor would need to know C4D, unless it's just for familiarity with the workflow. You certainly wouldn't do any editing with it!
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Thanks! I think I'll look it up on YouTube or something, so I'm familar if they ask me in for an interview. I've got no idea what I'd be doing with it, but they said knowledge with After Effects and Cinema 4D would be good, so maybe some basic animations or something?
 
Matt Harle said:
... so maybe some basic animations or something?
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I guess. Or possibly just being aware of the workflow so that when you're working with a C4D artist you know what they're going to be supplying and what their workflow is etc. As with most software I'm pretty sure you could get your hands on a free 30 day trial from Maxon — more than enough to jump in and learn your way around the basics.
 
matt said:
I guess. Or possibly just being aware of the workflow so that when you're working with a C4D artist you know what they're going to be supplying and what their workflow is etc. As with most software I'm pretty sure you could get your hands on a free 30 day trial from Maxon — more than enough to jump in and learn your way around the basics.
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I'll give the free trial a shot. Thanks! :)
 
Maybe you might need to render some sort of 3D title sequence out? I've used Cinema 4D before years ago, couldn't get my head around it at all. I really wanted to get into 3D Modelling/animating and I was just no good at it whatsoever!
 
Tony Hardy said:
Maybe you might need to render some sort of 3D title sequence out? I've used Cinema 4D before years ago, couldn't get my head around it at all. I really wanted to get into 3D Modelling/animating and I was just no good at it whatsoever!
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Yeah, maybe. I tried 3D modelling once with some free software, can't remember what it was called, but I just couldn't manage it!
 
3D is such a vast discipline that no one's an expert at everything. You usually end up specialising in one or two sub categories such as modelling, animation, rigging, lighting etc. There are even people who specialise in specific plugins such as Vray and RealFlow. My guess is an editor would need to know the basic workflow, and possibly some basic animation techniques so, as Tony says, you can smash out rough/quick titles and the like. Or so you can edit text objects in someone else's project. Sometimes it's enough to just know what the hell the 3D guys are talking about when discussing production schedules and pre-prod.
Good luck with the interview.
 
matt said:
3D is such a vast discipline that no one's an expert at everything. You usually end up specialising in one or two sub categories such as modelling, animation, rigging, lighting etc. There are even people who specialise in specific plugins such as Vray and RealFlow. My guess is an editor would need to know the basic workflow, and possibly some basic animation techniques so, as Tony says, you can smash out rough/quick titles and the like. Or so you can edit text objects in someone else's project. Sometimes it's enough to just know what the hell the 3D guys are talking about when discussing production schedules and pre-prod.
Good luck with the interview.
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If I get an interview, anyway! Job closes on the 22nd February, so I'll find out after that. But thanks for all of your advice. I'll try to pick up the basics.
 
Matt Harle said:
If I get an interview, anyway! Job closes on the 22nd February, so I'll find out after that. But thanks for all of your advice. I'll try to pick up the basics.
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Well...?
 
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