US Hawks Hang Gliding Association

Here are some Pitch, Roll, and Yaw Animations I recently made:

This is great Bob

These animations should surely be included on the DVD that can be popped in and viewed for first time students.

I hope to get some kind of set-up at the hangar where a class can view some instruction before first day in-the-field instruction.

Your animations will work great with the Beginner Instruction, first day agenda.

Thanks,
Sam

Bob I clicked on all three and nothing happened.

billcummings wrote:Bob I clicked on all three and nothing happened.

Hmmm... You shouldn't need to click on them. They should just show up as animations in your browser. But they are fairly large files, so maybe it's taking them some time to download. You might try opening that post and then going out to break the ice in your bird bath. After you've finished breaking back into your house they should be loaded.   

SamKellner wrote:This is great Bob
These animations should surely be included on the DVD that can be popped in and viewed for first time students.
I hope to get some kind of set-up at the hangar where a class can view some instruction before first day in-the-field instruction.
Your animations will work great with the Beginner Instruction, first day agenda.

Great Sam!!! You can give me ideas on what you think you'd like to see first!! Try to think of concepts that might be hard to get across that would be helped the most with an animation. Bill's description of how to flip a glider upright on water was my first attempt, and it turned out pretty well. I'd like to add some additional stuff to his (like a windsock showing the wind direction and maybe even some people in a boat).

Some of this graphics work can be pretty time consuming, so maybe we can enlist our fellow Hawks (or Hawks significant others?) to help out. There's a great free program called "Blender" that runs on Windows, Linux and even Macintoch. I've been using it to do these animations, and the results are pretty good (considering my limited artistic abilities). It's not the easiest program in the world to use, but the results are amazing. You can go to blenderartists.org to see some of what people can do. You can download Blender itself at blender.org.

Here's a chain that I made from a tutorial. It's a huge file (10.4MB) so give it some time to load, then it should replay much faster after that.



Here's the tutorial that shows you how to make it:



If there are any aspiring computer animation folks out there, this is a great chance to combine computer graphics and hang gliding!!