This is just a list of all the animations I have done with some additional angles. As well as my final thoughts on my work throughout this assignment. Basic Walk Chimp Walk Basic Run Hero Run Paranoid Side Push Kick Self Reflection Overall I believe I’ve done a good job, in terms of…Continue Reading Animation Compilation/Portfolio/Self Reflection
Body Mechanics
This animation I struggled to decide on, in the end while I was looking through references I found this video below: https://youtu.be/N0ylNz9qLhM?t=630 I thought this was an excellent breakdown as each major pose is held on, and so I decided to animate it. This time however I wanted to take a different approach, and instead…Continue Reading Body Mechanics
Run Cycles
Basic Run Deciding to move forward with Maya as my main tool I created a walk cycle, again for the sake of practice I created a fairly basic run cycle using similar techniques to that of the walk cycle to get a general idea of how to approach this. Again my reference was the cycle…Continue Reading Run Cycles
Walk Cycles
Basic Walk Moving on the first animation I wanted to attempt was a walk cycle. To begin I animated in maya, and to figure out how I would animate the walk cycle I decided to look at the walk cycle breakdown in the Richard Williams Animators Survival Kit. I took this break down and imported…Continue Reading Walk Cycles
Getting Started/ Deciding Approach
To get started I wanted to decide whether to pursue 2D or 3D animation for this assignment. To help decide I played around with what was given by the course using the 2D character rig and 3D Jack rig also provided by the university. I did this by playing around with the Jack rig provided…Continue Reading Getting Started/ Deciding Approach