Comments on: Residual Energy

By: Dr. Gordon

Dr. Gordon — Mon, 16 Oct 2006 00:09:00 +0000

We are in heavy production crunch…

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 14 Oct 2006 05:14:00 +0000

where are you doctors????

By: Nico

Nico — Fri, 13 Oct 2006 05:11:00 +0000

I’m not sure where I read/or was explained this but I had a run in of this type of energy before. “They” said to think of the force of a character like ripples in a class of water. The drop would be the initial force, and the rings would be that settling force acting back throughout the character. That force travels up and down through appendages and back to the hips etc. (Seems that this rings more true for more physical actions) but I can see where things would also take shape in more subtle scenarios either.

Great Post!!

By: davidbernalr

davidbernalr — Tue, 19 Sep 2006 15:32:00 +0000

thanks Doc..it always reminds me of Back to the future! You guys are like Dr. Brown, with an incredible mind making things like time machines or Mike Wachowskys or little talking rats!
and we are like Marty McFly checking out all your new inventions and how is that you make them, telling us like”when it get to 88 miles per hour..ja! then you need residual energy”,its been great!Thanks! Its aslo pretty close to the Spline Docs Blog firs happybirthday! Its been a year!

By: Olivier Ladeuix

Olivier Ladeuix — Fri, 15 Sep 2006 22:27:00 +0000

Here is the link Andrew.

http://212.2.2.90/splinedoctors/mp3/

By: Dr. Gordon

Dr. Gordon — Fri, 15 Sep 2006 02:45:00 +0000

About the podcasts. Its fine if you encode them in mp3. Send us a link and we will put a link to your website.

By: Olivier Ladeuix

Olivier Ladeuix — Fri, 15 Sep 2006 01:17:00 +0000

Dear Doctors! Thanks for the regular prescription of animation goodness.

Just one comment about the Podcasts, my mp3 player doesn't play M4A files so I went ahead and encoded all your podcasts in Mp3. Now few friends asked me to put them on download on my website.

Is it something you are happy with or should I restrain myself from doing so?

Thanks again.

By: Dave

Dave — Thu, 14 Sep 2006 11:40:00 +0000

Thanks for another great post – always insightful.

By: Emanuele Pavarotti

Emanuele Pavarotti — Wed, 13 Sep 2006 09:50:00 +0000

Great post Dr. Gordon!

About residual energy after a gesture:
Do you apply overlap in the wrist too? Isn't there the risk of obtaining a "springy" or too soft look?
How do you avoid that?

Thank you = )

Emanuele

By: Dr. Gordon

Dr. Gordon — Wed, 13 Sep 2006 05:56:00 +0000

The Spline Doctor name is just a joke. Someone a long time ago put Spline Bender on their business card and people thought is was funny. We are not doctors and you dont need to call us doctors. It was all for fun and we do not take ourselves seriously. We are just trying to have fun teaching animation.

-Andrew

PS. I get alot of junk mail that is directed to doctors.