Summary and Ressources
Basics of animation creation and Animation Editor overview.
We hope you found this lesson useful and informative. You’ve had an overview of the Animation Editor, which is the very tool every animator from Softbank Robotics uses to create animations you can actually see on the robot.
Besides, in this lesson, you discovered some vocabulary and technics inherent to the world of animation. You get to know the field of expertise of an animator. The first things people view on the robot is the way it moves, the way it speaks with natural gesture and flowing movements. So creating an animation is not just putting some key poses one after the other, but thinking about how people move, how they behave in different situations and translate this into the robot personality and possibilities.
Showing the result
Resources
Here are some qiAnim files that you can open and use in the Animation Editor, saved at different steps of the tutorial : * Key poses, in between and freeze. * Previous one with ease out. * Finished tutorial animation.
Use Case Recap
Basically any time you need Pepper to show the tablet to give hints to someone or to show anything special.
References and Documentation
If something seems unclear, you may want to look at the reference documentation, especially these sections: * To go deeper into the animation world : * The Animator's Survival Kit - R. Williams * 12 principles of animation (base from The Illusion of Life - F. Thomas) : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yiGY0qiy8fY * 11 second club : http://www.11secondclub.com/
Animation Editor A Pepper QiSDK tool to edit robot animations
Actions How to run actions on Pepper
Animates API Reference A selection of already made animations from SBRE library in the qiSDK plugin (& how to chain them nicely, the right use of them in a pre-dev phase of an app lifecycle)
Using Animates in a pre-dev phase of an app lifecycle Ready-made animations can be usefull in a design or prototyping phase of an App Dev Process.