Hello Animators of the world! And visitors of course :),
This is week 3, and things are going really well, I think spending that time on blocking really paid off, as it seems moving to smoothing which I kinda like to call it blocking plus :), really easy, and I didn't really have to change much. My new mentor made some awesome critiques though, really getting us to push those poses into more dramatic and fun, he also went through with us the importance of curves and poses, going through some of Disney's best 2D animation and how each pose is pretty much like a painting on canvas, which really inspired me to make sure I make every key pose a pose that leads the user's eye towards the expected direction.
I definitely felt like I am heading towards a good work flow here, for me blocking plus is still keeping with the key frames, and inbetweens, but not offsetting anything, that way you can still adjust timing in places needed, or even adjust poses when the director changes his mind :). Another thing also since you have things in smooth (spline curves), you can really start seeing the timing of your animation, I know at this stage, every time I think something is fast and snappy enough, it turns out not to be even close.
Again have a look at my smoothing stage of the first shot of my AnimJam, hope its ok with my mentor :), but I know there will always be changes.
Cheers for popping over,
Meng
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