Overview First of all, I think I have completed some very good work and I am pleased with myself. This has been a very interesting module and I have learned a lot that I didn’t know beforehand. In terms of improvement, I feel like I could have researched into more artists and widened my knowledgeContinue reading Module Overview
Today I had a Feedback tutorial with Alec. He firstly had a look at all of my animations in progress and then began to look at each animation file individually to give feedback that I could take away and use to improve my animations. Feedback notes: Vanilla walk: Overall animation looked good but was jumpingContinue reading Week 6 – Animation Strategies
3D – Personality Runs This week Alec spoke to us about runs with personality and showed us examples. after this I did some research into some runs I found interesting. I first had an idea of a run upstairs with the arms hanging behind. Here’s some references I found: I did Attempt to create aContinue reading week 5 – Animation Strategies
Today we began to look at run cycles, and how essentially its the same process to walk cycles only we animate on 1s instead of 2s and that both feet are never on the ground together . Alec supplied us with this image to help us create our poses for our run cycle: This wasContinue reading week 4 – Animation Strategies
Walks with personality: In class we had a lesson on creating a 3D walk cycle with personality where Alec Created a Snobby walk. I quite Enjoy a double bounce walk so I did some research to see what kind of walks I could find that were similar but with more personality. Some References I lookedContinue reading Week 3 – Animation Strategies
2D – Walk Cycle Later on that day Aodhan demonstrated how to create a 2D walk cycle using Toon Boom. I followed along the videos to create my own 2D walk cycle then For homework, we were asked to add secondary actions to our walks. Here is my walk cycle with headphones. I tilted theContinue reading Week 2 – Animation Strategies
3D exercise Character Posing in blender: Today we reviewed our module and then Alec told us to download the rain or snow models so that he could explain how we could use Fk/IK in blender to help us pose and animate within the rain and snow rigs. To practise, we posed the character based onContinue reading Week 1 – Animation Strategies
