Manual Handling 2 - Turning, Part 2

Below is the finished animation for the Turning portion of the manual handling training presentation. Only a couple of difficulties were encountered during this part of the production and these were to do with implementing the walk cycle. The problem was that whenever the keyframes were assigned to the biped, the feet and legs would become cross-legged. This was easily fixed by activating the auto key tool and relocating the feet and footsteps to the correct positions. Below is the final product for this portion of the aniamted series;

Manual Handling 2 - Turning

Manual Handling 2 - Turning, Part 1

This aniamtion required a little more work compared to the previous one on lifting. For a start, apart from using keyframes to create the lifting motion the character is required to do, I also had to introduce a walk cycle for the biped. This meant breaking the animation up into three parts; one for the lifting motion, one for the turning motion and the last for the putting down motion. This took a little more time than I originally anticipated but not so much that it will affect the overall deadline of the project. Below is the first stage of development;

Manual Handling 2 - Turning

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Manual Handling 1 - Lifting, Part 2

Organising the keyframes into the correct points on the timeline has been completed and I have since modelled and applied the skin, clothing and materials to the character. Applying the skin and clothing to the animation did encounter a couple of problems along the way, such as skin and clothing being accidently linked to the wrong bones but this has since been fixed. Below is the finished product for manual handling 1, lifting;

Manual Handling 1 - Lifting

Manual Handling 1 - Lifting, Part 1

This series of animations are being created for a Health and Safety Consultancy that is going to be showing a Manual Handling Training presentation. This animation is designed to show how a person should lift loads from the grounds. In order to do this I used the male biped tool in 3D studio max to create a base structure for the character. This will be followed by the application of modelled skin and clothing. This is only a draft production in order to get the keyframes organised into the write sequence.

Manual Handling 1 - Lifting

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