Animation Essentials Projects

Walk Cycle

This is my walk cycle the hardest bit for this was putting the arm and leg movements. I had a habit of match up everything on the same side so the right arm with the right leg, I corrected it so it was opposite arms and legs in motion. It wasn't a major change but it helped to make the piece believable.

Reaction Piece

Here is my reaction piece to a fly buzzing around and landing. I added in the sigh at the end because it felt a bit stiff. I feel that all of this was a bit stiff to be honest, something I will be doing my best to work on.

Lip sync

With my lip sync I kept the initial head movement similar to the original, but I wanted to add something to make it seems  a bit more cartoon like so I added in a bit of extra head movement in towards the end. The head also gets smaller as if moving away, this wasn't intentional but I like the idea that it feels like a the head movement is a bit greater than it seems. The drawing itself isn't my best work though I'm still getting used to the graphics tablet, and I will continue to use it so I can improve.

Show Reel

This is the final show reel for animation essentials. I picked the least offensive music I could find, Kakariko Village, and put it all together hopefully to show what I've learned doing these projects. I'm happy with this, I enjoy simple editing and collecting everything together. It just feels nice to have everything condensed.

Animation reference Material

Walk Cycle Reference

Walk Cycle Reference 2

Walk Cycle Reference 3

These are references to a happy walk as performed by my sister. I took it from different angles to make sure I could understand what needed to be drawn and how it should be done. With the lack of room where I live it was hard to get everything I needed at once. i also directed her to have different movements, if only slightly, every time I recorded her.

Reaction Reference

This is a reaction to a mosquito flying around, landing, and being squashed. This was a spur of the moment decision by me, from my original idea to do a reaction to a family death. I feel I can get a lot more out of this reaction than my previous idea. 

Lip Sync Reference

This is me mouthing and acting along the lines of how I want the lip sync to go. I used the first idea that came into my head to do it focusing solely on head movement. I felt as though this was the best course of action for the sound clip I chose. I don't feel like it needs a lot of body movement to convey what the character is feeling. i think It can all be portrayed by the eye and head movements.

Task 1

Here is my animation for task one, were I have two objects interacting. This was not the original plan I had put in place for myself, I had to change from a bottle to a box due to time restraints. This meant I had to change how the interaction went somewhat. So I exaggerated certain aspects of what happened like bounces when the box dropped.

https://vimeo.com/117413969

 I am quite happy with this piece, but in future I need to manage my time a lot better, even with the troubles I have had my time management has been terrible. I do feel that during the main collision it feels a bit slow as the ball is on top of the box as much as I wanted a little bit of hang there it feels slightly too long. I have used the knowledge of my class mates to help me where I have struggled in using maya, I do enjoy using maya as much as it can annoy and frustrate me sometimes. Hopefully I will improve as I continue to use it.

Bottle test

https://vimeo.com/117134863

This is a video of me testing a bottle being dropped and being hit with potatos

Ball Animation

Ball animation

Idea for Task 1

I was going to do a book and a pair of glasses but after talking with Emily I think it would be best to change the glasses to something else. So I will do a book and a plastic bottle. I think that way there's enough of a difference and it's not just a ball which I think is rather boring.