Animation Mentor Assignment - Class 2 - Week 1

This week was really cool. We are starting with a pick assignment and had to choose between a side step, half turn or kick. I really like the kick idea so I decided to do some nice soccer juggling... and since I suck at soccer I looked up some nice reference on the BBC Motion Gallery online. This is what I'm using as my reference.



Then, based on the reference, we need to do some really good planning of all the key poses of the animation. Good planning helps a lot when it comes to blocking your animation in the computer. So for the first week we have not even touched Maya to start animating. It's all been pencil and paper.

Here is my planning so you can see how the reference was transfered to paper.



I'll be posting my blocking next week. :-)