Animation Mentor Assignment - Class 1 - Week 9

This week we learned all about exaggeration in our lecture. We learned that we can take our animation to the next level by adding exaggeration. This makes our work look interesting and not booooring. We can always use exaggeration to punch up the scene and call attention to what is important for the viewer to focus on. But, it is important not to overuse exaggeration because it can confuse or turn off the audience.

We specifically learned about exaggerating Poses, exaggerating Timing and exaggerating Weight. We also touched up a little bit on the exaggeration of Ideas and Personality.

For our assignment we worked on smoothing out the Vanilla walk and I have to say, it was more work than I expected. Here are the 2 versions that I submitted. The second one has a more realistic passing of the foot and it also has a nicer up and down motion of the body. Unfortunately, I didn't finish polishing the second one, so there is still a little knee popping here and there.



We also had to work on a pose that demonstrated concern. Here is my pose, please tell me what you think.



And finally, my revision of last week's strong pose.



I really wish I had had more time to smooth out my walk. I had several comments during the week that made me change my idea and my key poses. Maybe for next week's revision I will have it all smoothed out.

So, next week is our personality walk!!! I can't wait! It's going to be so much fun!