I then began animating the blocked pass for my animation. I would mainly be focusing on the big movements of the animation, but also the timing as this would be key to the whole performance. I referred back to the illusion of life now and again but also acted out a lot of the movements and thought about as to how the body moves.
 |
| Animator's Survival Kit |
The below images are scenes from the blocked passes which I had worked on where I had then showed to my classmates and tutor.
 |
| Blocked out animation |
When I showed my blocked out pass of my animation to my classmates and tutor, I was worried about it, as I wasn't sure about whether or not if my camera angles looked alright and that I would have to go back to the storyboard. Something which I was more or less tired of going back to.
Fortunately, the camera angles were fine and this was more or less the go ahead for me to continue on animating my character. I would would focus and review a lot of the movements each time and made sure that the in-betweens looked correct, manually moving them and not let the computer to automatically do it for me, as I had mistakenly done so in the past animations which I had done.
 |
| Splined Rendered |
The above two images were more or less the splines rendered out of my animation. I then, asked my classmates again as well as my tutor on what the animation looked so far. This was where I was heavily critiqued, mainly due to the fact that my character had a slight camp/ feminine poses. At the time I thought that this was good as this showed the exaggeration movements. This kind of backfired as it was overdone.
I was flicking through the illusion of life when I came across this page, which showed Micky mouse praying to god. This was something which animation characters used to do back in the days. I then thought that I could use this similar technique later on.
 |
| The Illusion of Life |
From the feedback of the splined out animation, I then watched a few clips of Spartacus the Tv series. I reviewed the way the main character acted and found it quite restrictive but also seemed to move only when necessary.
 |
| Spartacus Tv Series |
Acted it out the more masculine poses and reviewed as to where I went wrong and re-animated the scene.
 |
| Acted it out |
Below is the result of the research and live reference which I had shot.
 |
| Applied the more masculine poses |
No comments:
Post a Comment