Body mechanics

This week I continued my body mech animation by blocking out the main poses and began animating. Below shows the main poses I made using the video reference I found last week.

 

After blocking out the poses I then started animating by adding in the in-betweens. Eventually I had mostly timed out my animation and I had a sense of how fast it was. This made me realise that my animation was too short and I needed to add more so I wanted to animate my character standing up into a fighting pose. I found this image to use as a reference. Below it is my final pose.

 

After working on the timing a bit more I finally had a good first draft of my animation. I also added a camera with simple movement.

 

I was able to show this first draft to my tutor in class this week where I was able to get some feedback. I was told I should try add more to the animation as it was looking a bit simple and after considering this advice I had an idea of how I could add to my animation. I will show my character running then jumping off a building, thereby transitioning into the animation I have done so far. Next week I will find a video reference for this and I will continue working on my animation.