More about muscles 2005-03-01 - By Jordi Bares
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For those that like these muscle systems, you should read carefully this
interview, is probably the best explanation i have seen to date about
their muscle system.
http://www.3dyanimacion.com/entrevistas/entrevistas.cfm?link
=barillaroincredibleseng002
Specially...
"3DA - We Know that in 'The Incredibles' you have used a new software
for the muscles , how does it work? Does it change the animator work in
any way?
Alan - Hmm... I smell technical talk.
Of course we have to develop all sorts of new technical innovations for
each film, and a great amount of credit goes to the head of technical at
Pixar, Rick Sayre, and the head of the character team, Bill Wise. I
don't want to speak for them, but it's my opinion that the reason these
guys are so good at what they do is because they approach their work as
artists.
Clay is just clay. I would love to sculpt like Rodin, but I can't. What
separates Rodin from others is not some special clay he developed but
his talent as an artist. I think these guys are becoming great artists
in there own right. Of course, the tools and the clay improve over time,
but i think its the artists themselves that end up really pushing the
medium. What I'm trying to say is, it's not muscles that they were asked
to create but a very stylized and sometimes simplified version of a
muscle.
Brad Bird really wanted these characters to be believable in 'The
Incredibles'. And of course there is a big difference between being
"believable" and looking real. You need to have a bicep muscle there,
but then 10 frames later we needed to cheat that shape, simplify it for
a certain pose, create simple lines of actions, curves and straights.
Everything that the great Disney animators did so well. You can't just
be thinking about math to figure that stuff out."
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