Ant - rigged, animated Staff Pick
- September 09, 2014
- 4,013 Downloads
- 64 Likes
- Blender 2.7x
- Render: Blender Internal
- Creator: vildanovak
- License: CC-0
Description:
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cycles shader
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hair
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Rigged -Animated along a curve, with NLA strips used
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You can drive the ants speed with the parent of the armature, the walkcycle will adapt to speed of this object, and thanks to the curve deform applied after armature modifier, the ant can stick to any surface.
-2 NLA strips - one is the walkcycle, second is tentacle and head movement
- no textures, just vertex colors, very lightweight.
This ant was used in production of an animated movie, it is simple, but functioning well. Thanks to DOF + motion blur can look realistic when not really big in the shot.
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vildanovak
Edited September 09, 2014thanks a lot :) I know how I prefer myself CC-0 downloads. Before all, sometimes, it can be sometimes hard to give credit, because there is not a platform for it(e.g. in short spots without titles). So I want to share my models under this license.
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Jafix
Written July 14, 2016Hey, thank you verry much for making it CC-0. That's really cool. Just a hint: inside the download zip the license file says still it's "Creative Commons Attribution 3.0"...
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GoodMorningRooster
Written September 09, 2014This looks so cool. I like how you set up the rig too. Would take me a while to get good at it because I'm not used to that. The idea of having the remote control area you called mravinator where you operate the thing in 3rd person, is blowing my mind.
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vildanovak
Written September 09, 2014thanks, the rig is also why I decided to share - sending any character on a curve in blender is not easy at all and I spent some time figuring out how this works ....
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JDHaller
Written September 09, 2014Great blend and thanks for sharing, Great way of looking at it all too! Thanks again! :)
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travisrod82
Edited July 23, 2016The ant doesn't look like the picture here. It's blocky instead of smooth, like its head and body is square like not rounded...I tried to increase the sub surf but it didn't do anything. How can i make the ant's body,head,legs and all be rounded instead of square?
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riccardo_pavone
Written January 20, 2021Subsurf modifier is disabled in viewport, just click on view icon to display it
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icchananda
Written December 03, 2017Sadly, I realized a feature in this rig became somehow unsupported... and that is driving a strip time.
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Reitanna
Written February 01, 2018no one cares to mention that ants have only three body segments, not four?
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wacomdev
Written June 02, 2018Hi vildanovak
Thank you for the little guy worked fantastic
Please check this post i have used your model here,
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1408528609293197&set=gm.1526681414105030&type=3&ifg=1
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amizi
Written October 28, 2018I just to know... How to set up animation this ant rig for blender 2.79 ? I really like this rig..
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culturalibre
Written May 19, 2021Gracias,he usado tu blend para crear esta ilustración: https://www.deviantart.com/culturalibre/art/Eleph-ant-879718896
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Ok, I have to comment - I wanted to publish this under CC-0 license, but did it accidentally under CC-BY, I thought that is the correct one. Now, there is no way to change the license. I understand that users cant change licensing of their files, but I think changing to a more permissive license could/should be possible.