Bit of a texturing break.. My Wacom pencil's smoking right now.

Anyhow, you want some motion tests? Here's some animation test(unfinished) I did within Sega Animanium. Haven't retargeted the motion yet on the skinned mesh cause I haven't gotten to skinning yet:

WATCH HERE
It's a 1MB flash movie file.

Anyhew.. I'm using Animanium to keyframe the primary motion on a proxy rigg. Here's a pic of the 1400 triangle proxy rigg:


Then, within Animanium:


Don't have Animanium? Check out the demo at www.animanium.com

It's a "full body IK" control rigger setup similar to MotionBuilder, but with a much simpler interface. You can download a the demo on Animanium's website and check out my CrabGuy animanium file here:

Here ya Go


Thanks for looking.