Horse Rearing Animation

For my ninth animation (Unit 7) I returned to the horse again and had to follow live action footage to create a horse rearing up. For this task I continued to use the horse rig by MothmanTD and found this very good reference video of a horse rearing on Youtube called “Horse rearing on commnad (sic)” created by Miss_Crazie_Maisie

Despite following the instructions I found that the method suggested in the tutorials for uploading a video into Maya didn’t work and so had to find a different solution. Following the video “Import Video Reference Into Autodesk Maya” created by Michael Swartz I had to convert my video file into an image sequence. However, after doing this and uploading it into Maya, I found the video was twice the speed of the original, something I didn’t realise until after I had completed the task. As I am unsure what caused this issue I have been unable to rectify it. When I have slightly more time I will do more indepth research into what caused it and hopefully fix the problem.

Despite the issues with the speed of the video I am very happy with how it looks in principle. Learning how to use live action footage is very helpful as it is a very different method used than that of the previous units.

Due to the previously mentioned issues I would suggest watching the final video at half speed to get a more accurate picture.

Horse rearing on Commnad (2018) YouTube. Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wyschH6K3o
Swartz, M. (2022) Import video reference into Autodesk maya, YouTube. Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=McwVhyXtK1M