Monday, September 12, 2011

Week 11.... the Final Walk Skip cycle animation

  Oh man what a week this last have been. I can assure you I had to redo my original skip cycle, and spent just a few hours under 24 on the computer cranking this thing right... Letting go of certain frames or even a whole set of Key frames got easier as my mind plunge deeper into how the animation should move.
  For the times when I felt the animation was off, thank goodness there is google+, and some awesome feedback from fellow animation students . Of course I had the AM site to give me great feedback too, the feedback was everywhere. Heck I would even jump out of my chair from time to time and attempt the same motion of Skip I was trying to do. All these things helped alot I am not going to lie.
  I was able to attend a QnA with 2 animators who worked on Cars 2, hearing there story of how they got into Pixar was very inspiring. I really enjoyed when they talked about there workflow and how they would approach the animation, I found it insane(in a good way) that one of them would do straight ahead animation for most of there shots during Cars 2. Its awesome to me cause honestly this is what I ended up doing on my Skip.  The best thing I took away from all of this is

Don't be afraid to delete keys and redo the whole animation, in the long run this will only help you

Enjoy the balance Pose and my walk skip cycle.


The Sketches



The Pose



The Animation


Thursday, September 8, 2011

Forgot about week 10

So I just got finish with a awesome Q&A with Jim Brown and Brian Mendenhall, who was just sharing there experience in the animation world. Some inspiring stuff came out from them, like the biggest fear for them are the up and coming new animators aka the AM students (lol). That aside I realize, well I didn't post my week 10 turn in, so here it is.
A little description about the assignment: So we got to do a character walk of our choice and I decided to do a skip type walk. also our poses is a exhausted pose here are the final with the sketch



The Exhausted Pose


The Exhausted Sketches



The  Skip Planning


The Blocking


The ReBlocking
(This was redone earlier today, figure I throw it up too)