(Class 2) Week 12 Animation Mentor - Psychology of Body Mechanic

Hello Again Awesome Animators,

So this is the last week of Class 2! Man it sure went by really quick :), I learnt so much in this class, lots of things about weight and the importance of arcs, not only in hands and feet, but everything, and how the hips is the core of the animation, and how it leads movements of other parts of the body. I have a good feeling that I will have a good head start going into class 3, and that is all because of the way our mentor has taught us to look at the hips with such importance, and strictness. I have to admit there were times where my mentor would crack the whip on us, but I think in many ways it was for the best, and I would love to have her again for acting class.

So I have ended up rendering the frames out and made my little Malaysian dance. Boy! Things look so much better when they get rendered out, I also gave Stewie a traditional Malaysian hat as well :). The animation again is not perfect, but I think for the level I am at its not too bad, its not the worst animation in the world, but I really wish I could do it again but this time with better planning and blocking this time around.

So I have updated my progress well with the new dance animation.

Again cheers for dropping by,
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.