This experiment was really fun, as I was beginning to animate a figure and think about how the body would move, It was just a simple flour sack but this was a great shape to work with to get used to key frames and how they work. I started by doing the key poses of the animation, such as standing, crouching, stretching to jump, the arc of the jump, the decent and the bend at the end to steady his weight. These key frames worked really well because it allowed me to easily think about the in-between frames which are needed to show to progression of the movement.

Once I had finished the key poses and the in-betweens I started to look at the timing. I wanted there to be more of the anticipation shot of the sack crouching down so I did a lot of playing around to get it to the way I wanted. I moved the frames from two’s to three’s to four’s just to see which I liked the best. In the end, I went for a mixture of two’s and three’s depending on how long I wanted each pose to be. I think that the final poses worked well.

Finally, I started to work on some secondary animation in the flour sacks arms, just to add a little bit more to the animation. I think that this secondary animation did improve the piece but I when I spoke with Alec he pointed out that it would improve it a little to have the ears move at different times to make it more natural. I agree with this feedback so I’m going to fix the animation to improve this.

I was very pleased with how the animation turned out, as I have never really worked with key pose animation. I think there was good movement in the flour sack but improving those secondary actions and cleaning up the linework would improve it.