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Brendan Body

@brendandjcad

8 months

All my horse and panther cycles pasted together. #animation

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Brendan Body

@brendandjcad

2 years

Main quadrupedal gaits - walk, trot, canter, gallop #animation

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Brendan Body

@brendandjcad

1 year

Here’s how I used to explain camera blocking to students. I showed them this step-keyed animation scene staged in different ways. Often students, would present their scenes in a neutral way, often with poor composition and flat staging. Perhaps something like this -

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@brendandjcad

1 year

Creators of winged creatures, please consider the propatagium membrane.🙏 #animation #rigging

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Brendan Body

@brendandjcad

10 months

Advertise your account with one animation

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@MunozArthur1

10 months

Advertise your account with one animation

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Brendan Body

@brendandjcad

2 years

Here’s some techniques to add weight and scale to the animation of a simple character.

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Brendan Body

@brendandjcad

7 years

#archaeopteryx Assemble! #fossilfriday

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Brendan Body

@brendandjcad

1 year

Quadrupeds in games are tricky, here’s the default locomotion set of Bento the dog from Somerville. The gaits are 1 walk, 2 trots and 4 x gallops all with left/right turn and incline/decline variants. #animation #gameanimation #quadrupeds

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Brendan Body

@brendandjcad

4 years

I’ve animated some quick quadruped gaits with breakdowns for my students. This is No.1 - A Walk #animation

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Brendan Body

@brendandjcad

1 year

Here's the same animation but presented as a wide establishing shot, then a series of over-the-shoulders. It’s basic but works a lot better than before. The characters look more appealing in 3/4, we can read their expressions better & we know who to focus on at different points.

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Brendan Body

@brendandjcad

1 year

Here I start with a close up on the boy character and add a point of view shot as he looks to the girl, now the audience are encouraged to see him as the protagonist in the scene. Their empathy for him will be stronger, giving his emotions and eventual rejection more weight.

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Brendan Body

@brendandjcad

5 years

Happy #fossilfriday I realised I’ve never posted this quick test I did anywhere. The fossil is the tyrannosaurs ‘black Beauty’ from @RoyalTyrrell

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Brendan Body

@brendandjcad

1 year

If we look at the camera placement you can see that the camera stays the same side of the characters. There is an invisible line between the characters called an axis of action and, to avoid confusion, we keep the camera on the same side of this line.

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Brendan Body

@brendandjcad

1 year

From our basic example we can start to plus it, enhancing the story with subtle changes. Here the shots gradually get tighter during the sequence ending up with singles on the two characters. This gives the middle part of the scene more intensity.

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Brendan Body

@brendandjcad

1 year

It’s interesting to experiment with the establishing shot, it can have a big affect on the sequence. Here, starting with a shot on the café sign emphasises the location.

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Brendan Body

@brendandjcad

4 years

Trex cycle breakdown #animation

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Brendan Body

@brendandjcad

1 year

Here I have the camera on the wrong side of the line. The characters now face the same way over the two shots which feels odd. I was always frustrated this ‘wrong’ version wasn't as jarring as I’d hoped. I think because we have the table and other character to orient ourselves.

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Brendan Body

@brendandjcad

5 years

#ThyreophoranThursday rough animation of Sophie eating a fern.

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Brendan Body

@brendandjcad

5 years

#FossilFriday Stride length still needs tweaked but here's Sophie walking.

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Brendan Body

@brendandjcad

4 years

No.2 - A Trot #animation

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Brendan Body

@brendandjcad

7 years

Testing #archaeopteryx exhibit, light is too bright at the moment but it kinda works! #fossilfriday

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Brendan Body

@brendandjcad

3 years

Maya playblast zoetrope #animation

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Brendan Body

@brendandjcad

1 year

Dogs shift their hips out to the side during a trot so their back feet miss their front feet. The foot falls make a neat diagonal pattern. 😀

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Brendan Body

@brendandjcad

2 years

@tvaziri I created some initial animation tests which were used to convince Christopher Nolan to use CG for the Batpod. In these I wanted to show how much more movement the Batpod could have compared to the practical version so my version is quite wobbly.

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Brendan Body

@brendandjcad

2 years

Made this to demonstrate the difference between a direct inbetween and one favouring the first pose. All the eye darts take two frames. Ones before the blink are direct inbetweens, favours after. The favours not only appear smoother but have more life to them too.

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Brendan Body

@brendandjcad

4 years

@imdead021 There is parallax when the camera moves so there’s parallax in a dolly, none in a zoom. The high focal length of the zoom flattens out the image too so there is less perspective between foreground and background.

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Brendan Body

@brendandjcad

1 year

I've also added dollies to the shots where the boy puts his head on his hands - emphasising his dreamy reverie. I use a stronger up shot on the girl as she stands and shoot the boy in a down shot, which gives her a greater feeling of dominance.

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Brendan Body

@brendandjcad

6 years

Would you like some tips on animating bird flight? Of course you would, that's why I'm doing a 3D animation demo on this very subject at #MoveSummit18

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Brendan Body

@brendandjcad

7 years

Did #archaeopteryx fly or just fall with style? #fossilfriday

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Brendan Body

@brendandjcad

5 years

#FossilFriday Rig testing almost complete. Over the next weeks and months I’ll be animating Sophie the Stegosaurus based upon the scanned skeleton very generously provided to me by Paul Barret of the @NHM_London . I’ll be posting my progress and citing references here on Twitter.

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Brendan Body

@brendandjcad

5 years

#ThyreophoranThursday It was quite tricky to minimise the flex of Sophie’s spine during the walk. One solution I found was to raise the hip on the side of the lifted leg (during the swing phase of the walk).

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Brendan Body

@brendandjcad

5 years

I made a quick video about basic spacing in #animation .

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Brendan Body

@brendandjcad

2 years

Hey! There’s a couple of my shots in there. 😀

Neb | 🏳️‍🌈

@NebsGoodTakes

2 years

People only talk about CGI when it's bad, quote tweet with a movie or TV scene that has great CGI

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Brendan Body

@brendandjcad

1 year

I’ve created an animation showreel with some of my work from the game Somerville. Here’s a clip, or the full version can be found here - #animation

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Brendan Body

@brendandjcad

7 years

#archaeopteryx movement test for #fossilfriday

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Brendan Body

@brendandjcad

3 years

Dr Davies' research looks like it'll generate some really great information for animators. 😀

Dr Zoë Davies

@DrSelfy

3 years

More legs than I’m currently used to but my new colleague, Cooper, came into the lab to see how things work. Normally he’ll be playing a more supervisory role.

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Brendan Body

@brendandjcad

2 years

@tvaziri How about a collaboration? This shot of Spiderman swinging down 6th Ave was prevised as 3 separate shots, the director didn’t like it, so I combined them into one and restaged it as a tracking shot, the first section is my animation, during the last fall Jackie Koehler takes over

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Brendan Body

@brendandjcad

8 months

It's December! Time to inject the Christmas spirit right into your veins like … #somerville

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Brendan Body

@brendandjcad

2 years

Some nice animation tips in here - angle of body arcs of feet etc.

A SLICE OF HISTORY

@asIiceofhistory

2 years

This is why Usain Bolt has the 100m World Record

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Brendan Body

@brendandjcad

4 years

Just a reminder that I’ll be a guest Sensi in the AnimDojo this evening, demonstrating the ancient art of bird flight animation.

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Brendan Body

@brendandjcad

6 years

#FossilFriday First attempt at a swim cycle for #Plesiosaurus dolichodeirus. Suggestions welcome. 😃

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Brendan Body

@brendandjcad

6 years

Lots of clean-up still to do but done for today.

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Brendan Body

@brendandjcad

6 years

#Horse skeleton gallop #animation test I did recently.

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Brendan Body

@brendandjcad

9 months

Don't think I've ever seen the gaits of a rat this clearly, I would've assumed they bound. But they trot and transverse gallop. Interesting!

Rebecca Groom 🐗🪲

@palaeoplushies

9 months

Panko in slow motion- you can see her transition through gaits as she speeds up

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Brendan Body

@brendandjcad

9 months

Rat gait update!

Rebecca Groom 🐗🪲

@palaeoplushies

9 months

@TetZoo I believe hamsters have a true bounding run- what rats do here is apparently still a bound but an asymmetrical one? Source:

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Brendan Body

@brendandjcad

4 years

James Baxter animating live @Move_Summit

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Brendan Body

@brendandjcad

6 years

A pretty good start I reckon.

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Brendan Body

@brendandjcad

5 years

To put this movement into Sophie’s walk is pure speculation, there is no evidence that stegosaurus did this. But I quite like that it solves a problem as well hints at the underlying link between birds and dinosaurs.

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Brendan Body

@brendandjcad

7 years

#fossilfriday flight, still experimenting. Center of gravity always feels off, suggests to me #archaeopteryx was not a strong flyer.

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Brendan Body

@brendandjcad

7 years

Update on my #archaeopteryx exhibit, it is now part of current exhibition in the University of Dundee’s Lamb Gallery #OGaF #DArcyThompson

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Brendan Body

@brendandjcad

6 years

Hoverin' #iAnimate

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Brendan Body

@brendandjcad

2 years

@RichPach17 When working on Pacific Rim we would wobble the Jaeger's metal plates and armour to mimic the flesh of the Kaijus.

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Brendan Body

@brendandjcad

4 years

@DaveDexterMusic I believe so, these terms initially described camera equipment but are now a language enabling filmmakers to describe camera movement. I imagine it would be the same discussing a shot with a drone pilot – ‘dolly into this, track with this’ etc.

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Brendan Body

@brendandjcad

3 years

Impressive 3-legged gallop

Dr Zoë Davies

@DrSelfy

3 years

Looking through data from this absolute babe of a dog today and still can’t get over how easily all of the canine amputees have outrun me 😂

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Brendan Body

@brendandjcad

4 years

I'm pretty sure James Baxter is not human.

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Brendan Body

@brendandjcad

5 years

So it's impossible to say with any certainty how Sophie walked, I've animated something of a mammalian walking gait. Fossilised stegosaurus footprints indicate that the rear foot would've stepped into the footprint of the forelimb.

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Brendan Body

@brendandjcad

1 year

What do we win? Let me guess … ‘exposure’?

Pink Floyd

@pinkfloyd

1 year

Pink Floyd are inviting a new generation of animators to enter a competition to create music videos for any of the 10 songs on the iconic album, The Dark Side Of The Moon. For more information and to enter go to

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Brendan Body

@brendandjcad

5 years

The body of stegosaurus was very rigid so I have tried to minimise flex in the spine during the walk.

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Brendan Body

@brendandjcad

4 years

Tomorrow I'll be taking any interested AnimDojo-ers through my process for animating bird flight. I'll mostly be talking about flight dynamics and bird anatomy.

𝘼𝙣𝙞𝙢𝘿𝙤𝙟𝙤

@AnimDojo

4 years

Say hello to our new streamer! 🤩 From tomorrow, Animator, Brendan Body will be teaching you how to #animate a bird flying in the Creature #Animator Room for FREE 🐦 Learning to animate flying will improve your #animation overall by working on follow-through and use of arcs 💪

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Brendan Body

@brendandjcad

4 years

I’ve dusted off my blog to post the iAnimate ‘introduction to creature animation’ episodes. Might be easier to watch them together in one place and in the correct order. #animation

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Brendan Body

@brendandjcad

4 years

Landing like a loon!

World birds

@worldbirds32

4 years

Common Loon (Gavia immer)🐦🦜🕊️🎵🦆🐟🐤❤️🐤

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Brendan Body

@brendandjcad

6 years

Wanting to land now ...

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Brendan Body

@brendandjcad

7 years

Just the feathers missing from #archaeopteryx #fossilfriday

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Brendan Body

@brendandjcad

6 years

#iAnimate -ing their eagle rig.

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Brendan Body

@brendandjcad

6 years

Half the feet, twice the fun.

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Brendan Body

@brendandjcad

6 years

A quick flour sack walk cycle. #animation Rig by Joe Daniels

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Brendan Body

@brendandjcad

5 years

I said in most large animals, their hip drops on the side of the lifted leg during the swing phase of the walk. But maybe it's worth highlighting that this is not the case for all animals, for example bears raise their hips on the lifted leg side ...

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Brendan Body

@brendandjcad

7 months

Exciting! The game I'm currently working on, No Rest for The Wicked has finally been announced. #NoRestForTheWicked

No Rest for the Wicked

@wickedgame

7 months

Shape the fate of a tattered world in No Rest for the Wicked, a visceral, precision ARPG from the creators of the Ori Series, @moongamestudios . Coming to PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X|S. Stay tuned: #WickedInside streams March 1, 2024. Wishlist here:

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Brendan Body

@brendandjcad

5 years

This is not how most large animals walk. If we look at the hips of elephants, rhinos etc. we observe that the hip typically drops on the side of the lifted leg.

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Brendan Body

@brendandjcad

6 years

More focus!

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Brendan Body

@brendandjcad

4 years

Was great fun streaming in the #AnimDojo last night.

𝘼𝙣𝙞𝙢𝘿𝙤𝙟𝙤

@AnimDojo

4 years

Didn't catch the flying bird animation stream with @brendandjcad yesterday? No worries, you can watch it free on the AnimDojo site now! 👉 Download the free rig, follow the stream and upload your #animation for feedback with Brendan B on Friday! 👍

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Brendan Body

@brendandjcad

6 years

This week I have mostly been animating … a fish! In a river.

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Brendan Body

@brendandjcad

2 years

@HenryAnimates @AdderLovely I’ve uploaded breakdowns to these cycles here on Twitter before if that helps?

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Brendan Body

@brendandjcad

5 years

Does this count? #junicorn

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Brendan Body

@brendandjcad

1 year

It's-a-me! 😃

Lucas Ridley

@lucasridley

1 year

Listen to creature animator (and all around fantastic animator) @brendandjcad discuss his 2 decade animation journey:

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Brendan Body

@brendandjcad

4 years

@cosmic_absentia Yup, classic case.

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@brendandjcad

6 months

It’s a dolly.

joshua peinado 🦅

@tenmoreskies

6 months

the zoom that changed everything

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Brendan Body

@brendandjcad

7 years

Checking out my #archaeopteryx animation in #VR on @sketchfab !

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Brendan Body

@brendandjcad

6 years

Added a glide and a background to the animation I created in the animation demo at #MoveSummit18

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Brendan Body

@brendandjcad

3 years

Nice bird reference!

BirdAgent

@BirdAgentz

3 years

頭の黒い #チュウヒのねぐら入り。日没後のため ISO204800 となり酷い画質ですが。。。 #easternmarshharrier #α7s3 #a7S3

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Brendan Body

@brendandjcad

3 years

@GameAnim @Latienie Cool. 😀 I did a demo using some of these ideas in a workshop a while back

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Brendan Body

@brendandjcad

3 years

After over 2 and a half years, today was my last class as an iAnimate Instructor. Thanks to @iAnimate for the amazing opportunity as well as to everyone who took my workshop, I’ve seen so much inspiring work and learnt so much throughout my time here.

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Brendan Body

@brendandjcad

3 years

Often birds’ necks look stretchy when they’re actually a sigmoid curve which can straighten.

Charlotte Belland

@bellandpixel

3 years

zooooooop!

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