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Cinematic Animation in Daz Studio and DaVinci Resolve - WEEK 1

Below is an organized method of navigating the Exclusive Forum for This Course at Digital Art Live Studio forum.

It is meant to make for a more clear visual experience when trying to follow along with the course - especially at your own pace - keeping things in order rather than getting jumbled and confusing as more and more posts and articles pour in, changing the order of things.

Of course, the links won't take you there unless you're part of the course and are signed in to Digital Art Live Studio.

I hope this helps you all to have a more enjoyable experience as we proceed. As always, if you have any questions, comments, anything - related or not... please let me know!!! :)

"WalkFemIP" is my special nomenclature for animations that utilize Havanlibere's Walk Feminine walking motion, for which I have made a special rig for. "IP" means that the character is using the In-Place version of the animation - hence the need for a camera rig that moves the scene past the cameras as if Rosie was walking through 3D space along the Z axis.

In-Place walk animations means that there is no forward (Z axis) motion, but that there is a walking animation.

The WalkFemIP camera rig contains many cameras.

These cameras are intended to be used on Rosie when she is using the Havanalibere Walk Feminine "In-Place" animation. They are to help facilitate camera moves (or not moving at all) that work well when filming a walking actor for a movie or show. 

TrnTbl - a Turn Table camera that looks up at Rosie from the ground. A null that is centered on Rosie's position rotates the camera around her evenly.

REV - REVEAL - Name was changes specifically for this course to assist with clarity.

Week 1 - Introduction to Concepts

Wrapping our heads around the idea of generating our own animations efficiently and using techniques that one might see employed at actual Hollywood film studios. 

Practices to think about using, and those to try to avoid.

A practical look at putting some of these ideas together to create an animation in Daz Studio in time lapse

Bringing forward the notion that it can be extremely beneficial to learn the technique of rendering in layers - meaning: making multiple renders of different elements and putting them all together, along with other powers of editing, using DaVinci Resolve.

It's a Deep Dive

It's meant to get us all thinking along the same concept in regards to CG filmmaking using these two, very powerful software tools.

This is a link to the article post with my message regarding the article and video below with optional homework

Welcome to Week 1!!!

Week 1 Post Session Tutoring Video

Using our Course Download Pack: Sample_Assets_Cyberpunk_A, we'll explore an Easy way to get started compositing using only the Timeline Editor in DaVinci Resolve. It really doesn't get any easier than this - in a way. I mean... getting used to the feel of new software is always something. But in all of my years, I have never seen such an easy way to perform such powerful tasks!

As we get deeper into the course, I'll be introducing more wnderful ways to go beyond this simple approach that makes life even easier on us in the end. But just to get The Feel of the controls of DaVinci Resolve, play around with the information in the following video - at your own pace - to learn the basics of compositing. 

Why? Because the art of compositing is what will make our Daz Studio experience a Lot smoother, faster, and a Lot more crash-resistant. We'll be animating ideas quickly and actually rendering them out with little to no hassle thanks to a whole new way of thinking - a whole new way of working!

It was pointed out that, when dragging file folders into the DaVinci Resolve Media Pool, the sequence of images within turn out to be just a bunch of still images - not appearing like a video clip!

This (video below) is the quick and simple cure for that: