Animation Mentor Assignment - Class 1 - Week 8

OK, so the work this week went great. Our assignment was to block out Ballie in a simple vanilla walk. It was more work than I expected. In addition to the contact, breakdown and extreme poses that I alluded to in the previous post, we also had to work on the latteral side to side movement of the hips, as well as the dropping of the hip of the passing leg. In this animation test you can see the result of all my changes. I will be cleaning up the animation next week so that in week 9's post you will see a smoother animation.



Our other assignment was to pose Stu to communicate that he is strong. Here are my poses for this week. Also, click on the sketches link if you want to see the sketches that I drew to base these poses on. During the week we try to find inspiration for our poses from video, pictures or real life observation.

Strong Sketches



Finally, this week I also fixed all the feedback that my mentor Amber corrected on my bouncing Taylor animation. There were TONS of changes but it looks much better. I know to most of you the animation will look very similar to the original... but I have made several adjustments to anticipation, overlapping action, timing and squash and stretch. Check it out: