Second Week
Walk Cycle with Personality
The walk cycle with personality was a different approach. Unfortunately, I didn’t manage to animate anything in 2D, but I used my own work and completed the assignment during the lecture by filming a walk with emotion or personality. We worked in a group and tried out various animations we could perform. From five options, I chose the two best personality emotions: grumpy and sneak movements, and sketched the main key poses in my notebook.
For the personality, I used a video created during class. I particularly liked the movements that one of my classmates performed. It seemed fun to try the sneak emotion and how the movement differs. This time I didn’t look at Rachel’s example; however, I used some examples from animations I found online just to understand how the arms move. Mostly this example: https://lik365v1.wordpress.com/2016/12/10/7365-sneak-walk-cycle/
Alec said that the leg movements and steps were good, but I needed to add a bit more arm movement because otherwise the motion looks robotic. Analyzing my classmate’s walk, I noticed that his arms and head didn’t move much, so I used my own filmed video. Honestly, understanding and depicting the arm movement for the sneak personality took the most time.
Sneak personality walk reference
Since I initially didn’t like the first personality, I also used another personality walk that we created during the lecture, but after Alec’s comment, the movement wasn’t animated as well and the personality was also difficult to read from the animation. Additionally, the legs and arms moved strangely. Moreover, while animating, I noticed that the forward leg moved inward. In the end, I decided not to submit it, and also due to lack of time, I didn’t continue this animation cycle.
personality walk references reenacted in lecture
Grumpy animation in 3D
I corrected the personality’s arms several times because although the step was quite understandable, good, and unique for the sneak emotion, I didn’t like the arms. I filmed myself, but that didn’t help at first, mainly because I couldn’t get into the sneak role, so I searched for examples. Finally, after a long search and studying the poses from my own filmed emotion, I solved the arm movement. I used the SyncSketch website to more easily break down the motion.
Arm study breakdown in SyncSketch
Final Walk Cycle with Personality: Sneak