(Class 2) Week 8 Animation Mentor - Psychology of Body Mechanics

Hey There Fellow Animators!

So its week 8, and I thought I would really go all out on this one, I want to really improve on my last shot and really get it down this time for this assignment with the dance, the crazy thing is after getting a pretty harsh critique from my mentor last time, I feel even more motivated to try harder! I don't know why, so I really went for it this week and got my blocking reasonable quick, things are looking pretty good and I think I got all the key poses I need for the dance routine.

However when I look at how others are doing their blocking, I get the feeling that maybe I should have down more breakdowns to really tighten the animation up to the point where I can control it. Hopefully it turns out right this time around :), so here is the blocking, cheers again for dropping by on my log.

Cheers,
Meng

(Class 2) Week 7 Animation Mentor - Psychology of Body Mechanics

Hello Animators of all Kind!

Welcome to week 7 of class two, OK so I manage to finish my drunken stumble but it needed a lot more work, and I think the critique really showed where I did wrong, as a personal goal I think I did OK on it, it was definitely something a lot better then what I did 5 years ago in Media Design :).

So just to point out the flaws in the animation, I didn't have enough overlap in the spine, I guess I am having difficulty putting it down in the poses, it something I have a understanding of on paper but once I start putting it in Maya and seeing the playblast something wasn't clicking so I am hoping to do much better on the next assignment, I am sure you will pick it out in the animation :).

To finish off this week we had one last animation to do, and I chose out of the pick list to do a little dance move, I wanted to move away from doing any break dance, hip hop, so I chose to do something semi-traditional I guess, I chose to do this Malaysian dance I found on you tube, its pretty neat, and I think its at the right difficulty level. My mentor says this one is gonna be a little challenging because the body movement is not so obvious and I will need to push the poses, I think I am up for that :(, if anything I know I love to push things and maybe too much at times.

So please take a look at the reference and final drunken stumble animation, and I will see you guys on the next post :).

Cheers,
Mengster.