SL Top 10 Wanted Animations?!

Howdy folks, Jonny here (yeah like who cares )

This is a serious survey as to some suggestions on the "Most Wanted Animations".

I've seen plenty of requests for specific animations and I'm trying to get a feel, and this should help others as well, as to what the SL peeps want most

Now being a real life 3d modeler/animator I could "theoretically" make any animation imaginable. I am a Lightwave 3d dude and pickin' up the Poser thing pretty well. But, whaaa, there are limitations to what Poser and SL can do as a lot of us have found out.

Some things to keep in mind though, for the most part I'd like to get started with single person animations. Reason being there seems to be a hefty scalability issue once the stuff gets into SL, We've all seen the short chick smootchin a guys nipple instead of his lips (though this does excite me!!!), and we've seen hands in heads, and even floating midgets trying to dance with amazons

So here's a good chance for us all to express our fondest animation wishes and I welcome all suggetions, and this is also for other animators out there to read and get ideas.

Give the people what they want, make it rock, and sit back and enjoy the warm fuzzy feeling you get knowing you've brought some joy and happiness!

Look forward to some kick ass suggestions!!! and as always,

Love, Peace, and Hairgrease!!!

A huge fully autonomous scripted braveheart battle animation would be kinda cool.
Good luck on that one

Well, I love my animation override. And I'd like to see more idle standing animations. Like have an animation that makes the av fidget or picks lint off their clothes. Or one that looks around and throws cheesy smiles at random people. An animation rubbing their belly or picking nose. LOL I like that. So we can have a wider selection and choose stuff that would match us.

Mooning!

Hey Foster, care to help That would be kick ass but don't think SL could handle that yet Maybe next release

Good one Lash, I'll get with Francis Chung and see what we can come up with. If nothing else I could make a pack of "poses" and you could string em together as a long funky gesture pick nose n flick, scratch butt, package check and turnyourself around "that's how ya do the SL hokie pokie"

Mooning would rock ass, literally Good one Lek, but I don't know how we'd pull the pants down? Any suggestions?

Thanks peeps!!! Keep em coming!

don't forget there's a multitude of great animators already here so let's all get in on it

Lecktor, IM me in game about the moon... Ive had one in SL for a while

More standing animations!

More sitting animations! (and not only sitting "poses", we have enough of those!)

More dancing animations (there aren't ever enough )

One animation driving a vehicle.

Animations for eating food! (ie., using knife & fork and putting them in your mouth, or serving food, etc.) I know there is currently no market for restaurants in SL, but I'm on a silly project which will have one restaurant

... and yes, lots of tiny animations for natural gestures like already suggested Actually, I have lots of those, but I'm not really eager to share them, since these are the few things that make Gwyn "unique" (even if several of those anims are not perfect...).

But to share a little, I have attached a simple Japanese bow It's not perfect - the hands don't fit together - but it was just something I did in 15 minutes or so while waiting for a meeting with Hiro Pendragon (his place has a Japanese setting). But since it's a BVH file, you can change it to suit your avatar. Yes, I know that there are better bows around!

Hey Gwen!!!

Sweetness, I've been lookin for somewhere to get my grub on!!!!!

Get with me IM whatever, I'd love to work on eating and chillin in a resteraunt.

How cool, romantic dinners, boys night out at the sports bar, FOOD FIGHT!!!!

*franticlly running in circles clawing at bald head*

Pl-Pl-Pl-Pl-Pleeeeeease look me up!!!!!!!!

Me too.. I'd like a stand idle animation that makes and AV shift from side to side a bit as someone would while they're standing, cross and uncross their arms.. maybe even scratch a butt cheek every so often.

I'll throw in a request for more animations/poses while idling in flight. The default, that wierd arms-out-away-from-body thing just looks rather awkward to me.

SWEET will do thanks Ferran !

what about a pick up and throw the anoying person out of your club emote just like real life

another how about actualy place ing linden notes in some dancers g string

how about a punch in the mouth leaving a cut lip there is a slap emote allready

a proper sleep emotion with z's comin form your mouth and your eyes actualy closed

AKA FOOL

swimming
Would have to include a script to stay on top of water...

okay, here's my two bits...

an anim of a person listening to a boring conversation and trying to stay awake..you know, arms crossed..head bobbing from time to time, eyes sleepy, shakes the head to wake back up...


an eye rolling anim..as in saying..oh brother..

how about a kiss kiss anim, where you do the "oh dahling, so good to see you" places hands on shoulders and does the kiss kiss on each cheek thing

two anims that are my all time favs in world is the big squishy hug anim and the face mashing kiss one...great work you two! but what if they were combined? go into a lovely big hug and then maybe have him take her face into his hands and give her a toe tingling kiss, nice and long, a bit of tongue....oops..ummm...oh my, I got into that a bit didn't I ...fans myself..shakes..ok, I'm alright now...was it good for you?


I agree with AKA Fool.......sleeping with eyes closed! snoring? I don't snore, I have never heard myself snore, you must be wrong..hah..me snore....NEVER....mutters to herself

I'm sure I could think of more, but right now the one that comes to mind that we don't have is a curtsey. Hmmm... also eating ice cream and things like that would be nice...

But yeah, I want more different sitting animations!

A curtsey? What a nice idea! Hmmm... very useful for the new themed sim that will feature London in 1900

Hmmm *thinks hard*

Yes, I think I'll be able to do something like that... if I knew how to combine anims, it would be fun to have a "hand kissing" anim... or even a plain shake of hands!

Hmmmm....

When I used to play TSO two of the best animations were the "Serenade" & "Give Gift" ones. There were many others (Like the "Flying Hug" one) but I'd love to Serenade again.... Perhaps you could put a "object" in the box you give an make it an actual present even (Just in time for X-Mas too).......... Just some thoughts.............

Adam...............

Excellent feedback folks, much love too all!!!!!

Currently workin on a "talk to the hand" w/ the head roll and hand on hip.

When I get it to where I'm pleased I may have to release it free gift style (in time for HanaChrisKwa ) for all and see if it's up to par for you guys and, well this ones more-less for the gals.

LOVE YOU GUYS!!!

Thanks so much for takin' this serious. This is truely what we make of it!!!

Keep it coming, and animators out there please feel free to pick up the torch and set the "Roof..., roof..., setz da roof on FIIIIAAAAA!!!!"

this is not just for me and my grubby little money makin mind so no worries bout someone "stealing" the ideas!!!!!

Love, Peace, and Hairgrease!!!!

*nawing on keybord in excitement* Gwen, where's the Grease Spoon babe?!!!!

I'd kill for a horseriding pose (leaving the head, mebbe all the torso over the pelvis free to move). Motorcycle riding pose is just too tilted forward. A relaxing hoseback riding pose, sitting upright, more 'trail ride' than 'horse race'

Oooh, I'd like new ways to laugh too. A new sitting anim where they look around at people and snicker. An AFK anim that makes it look like they're reading a newspaper.

And skipping anim. So instead of running, I can just skip. I like all the dance animations at present. My suggestion for the hand-drawn ones would be to make them go faster.

I always wanted a sexy crawling anim too. Like the one Madonna did in her Express Yourself video. I'll find some way to use it.

And mooning definitely. I don't have one. *sniffles*

And a standing anim that looks like you're talking with hand gestures and head nodding. Flipping hair over the shoulder. Pushing glasses up the bridge of the nose.

Hey Jonny

Haven't seen you in-world for a while. Did you ever get that Equilibrium gun-fu thing figured out? I remember seeing some of your test anims that looked pretty promising.

I was kinda looking forward to seeing that finished. Have you seen "the Last Starfighter" or "The Big Hit"?

If you haven't, there's this thing in the last starfighter called the "death blossom", where you go crazy in this spinning/shooting/mayhem thing and totally annihilate anything in a 1000 meter radius.

I was thinking a move like that would be neato with a gun-fu/Marky-Mark style breakdance gunfight thing going on. If you do the anims, I can handle the rest

Just a thought. I'm sure whatever anims you come up with will be most excellent.

Oh, and Lash - that newspaper thing was an emote in City of Heroes when you were bored. It was my favourite. Just the absurdity of a super-hero in tights standing around reading the sunday times always made me giggle.

wow, there are some great suggestions in this thread.

i'd like to see a package check anim that would just make my day, talking to someone and they do a package check......... *giggles*
the butt scratch would be funny too

i think we could use a broader range of expression in stand anims for the anim overrides. Most of the poses available are nice, but they seem to come in two varieties- sexy poses and cutesy poses. It would be nice to see some less flattering but more realistic body language- shy, arrogant, twitchy
Remember jonny when scott made us watch how everyone walked in school? Some walk cycles to replace the default one would be great- but not swishy hot-girl walks, some that lead with the head or knees (but in a natural way) would be nice.

my two shiny coppers

Thinking about it more what I really want is more stuff I can use while in a conversation... different kinds of claps and laughs and smilies and waves and stuff but with more variety for different types of people and genders.

A way to realtime control animations with arrow key combinations and whatnot, not unlike combos in a fighting game, would be nice. Even with something like a Wacom pad to detect pressure, that could smoothly gradiate between levels of intensity for a gesture -- polite clapping, say, as opposed to a furious storm of personal applause.

As I hear it, there are certain limitations involving finger gestures so that kind of limits microanimations.

I see so many great ideas here.

Fran: LOL on the "most excellent". Bill & Ted? hehe

Jonny, great thread... how about a Mime animation -- you know, that one where the silent clown tries to get out of an invisible box? Or climbing up a ladder?

Weeeeeeeeeee, Francis, YOUR ON!!!!
I know your a busy bee but you know what brought me to SL in the first place.

Sorry been tied up lately, Boat Show in Fort Lauderdale, chillin w/ my little ones in Pa, and actually got a real life 3d gig. I'll be scarce this week, banging out this gig.

Yeah I'm going to try to take on the gun kata task and I'll rent the last starfighter again, "death blossom" sound delicious!!!!!!

FYI peeps, all great ideas!!!!

Here's my plans for the near future, I'll be getting with Francis so we can put some kick ass stuff together. A couple things I plan on hitting first.

Greating Pack - this will be simple stuff like curtsie, bow, some other fairly easy standing anims like kicking peeples, pick nose and yum!, slap/punch in the arm and whatever else.

'Tude Pack - (short for attitude) This will have like "talk to the hand", "k.m.a." with butt swing, package check (just for Neph ), basically your runna tha mill smart ass anims

Bully Pack - This will be my test forum for 2 ppl anims, body slam, sucker punch, stone cold stunner , stuff like that.

And got some hot sh*t brewin for you Vamp/Goth/Freaky Deakies out there. MUHUHAHAHAHA!!!!! Love ya!

And didn't forget bout the Greasy Spoon Gwyneth!!!!!!!!!!

And all the while I'll be buck whilein' on some crazy action gun kata "death blossom" scruptousness

Would love for others to get in here with some tips for some of the crazier requests, I gots no clue how to make em swim, autonomous armies, and stuff like real time controls. BTW where's my animating chums at, I know yout out there, ummm, like Chip Midnight, Cristiano don't you animate? Hiro? (all above mentioned names are used out of love and great admiration )

If any one wants the first test run of "talk to the hand" (more femanine for smaller avis) holla and it's yours to play wit (remember *this is just a test* )

Great feedback peeps and keep em comin!!!!, and a shout out to my little bud Dreamz Drago, the "Binky" to my "Brain"!!!! (but like way cuter )

Love, Peace, and Hairgrease!!!