Wow, it's been a while since my last post, but I've really been busy with allot of things the last couple of weeks. It's unbelievable how fast time goes by when you think about it. We're already in the last week of Class1 at AnimationMentor. Next class is ''Introduction to body Mechanics''. And then things will really get hard!
But were still in class 1 and this week we have to make a walk with Ballie, the ball with to legs. Any walk...so you can imagine how hard it is to come up with an original walk. I had thousands of idea's; moonwalk, C-walk, sneak walk, Sumo walk, drunk walk, happy walk, sad walk, tired walk etc. I mean sky is the limit! But then I realized I didn't want to do anything hard right of the bat. I wanted to learn the work process first with something simple and then jump into something more complicated. So I'm just going with a skipping walk and end with a jump off screen. Simple, but effective. It's still in blocking , so its FAR from finished. I'm guessing its at 10 % right now...so yea you can imagine how much work still needs to be done. Don't really want to show it yet....but because it's been a while since my last post here it is...remember 10%! This isn't actually animation yet, just blocking which means the key poses that your going to need to make the final animation. Still allot of things to do; timing, spacing, overlap, arcs and who knows what more :S!
But were still in class 1 and this week we have to make a walk with Ballie, the ball with to legs. Any walk...so you can imagine how hard it is to come up with an original walk. I had thousands of idea's; moonwalk, C-walk, sneak walk, Sumo walk, drunk walk, happy walk, sad walk, tired walk etc. I mean sky is the limit! But then I realized I didn't want to do anything hard right of the bat. I wanted to learn the work process first with something simple and then jump into something more complicated. So I'm just going with a skipping walk and end with a jump off screen. Simple, but effective. It's still in blocking , so its FAR from finished. I'm guessing its at 10 % right now...so yea you can imagine how much work still needs to be done. Don't really want to show it yet....but because it's been a while since my last post here it is...remember 10%! This isn't actually animation yet, just blocking which means the key poses that your going to need to make the final animation. Still allot of things to do; timing, spacing, overlap, arcs and who knows what more :S!
Also I've haven't posted anything of week 7. But I have a good reason for that. Week 7's assignment was to make Tailor ( the squirrel like character) bounce across screen and have overlapping action work on the tail. Now the first time I did that assignment I was very busy, so I really didn't have time to make it look good. It looked horrible...just know that. I want to show you the before and after, but I deleted everything that had anything to do with that bad animation. However I had some time off the last couple of days and decided to completely redo the week 7 animation. It's waaaay better now, still far from perfect..but practice makes perfect. What do you think?
Now that I'm happy with the Tailor animation I can move on to the walk animation. I'll show you next week how it turned out polished and all.
