an animation workbook
Here is what I submitted for this month’s competition over at the 11 second club. I spent the past few days looking at small subtleties to improve the staging, appeal, timing and spacing of the shot.
I am not too sure if it’s quite there yet but for what it’s worth I am quite happy.
May I take this opportunity to wish everyone a happy new year, full of good wishes, self fulfillment, and animated dreams! See ya all next year!
Here is the shot after I smoothed out the animation. There are still bits and pieces I want to push a little further like the moving holds but overall I am quite happy with the way it’s going.
As always, let me know what you think.
After the last linear pass I did on both character, things felt a little bit too busy and too distracting for me. One of the things I have done (apart from asking for feedback from some people – Thanks Aaron!) was referring to the notes I took during the Ed Hooks master class. One of the many things we discussed were what action a character plays before he/ she acts another action and also adrenaline moments.
I added the bit with the book for the granny to justify she was reading before her dismissive reaction to the guy’s effort to impress her with the cake. I also took out the breakdown pose I added last time because I want the viewer to focus on the lady’s reaction once he says “yes”. One of my aims with this exercise is to practice my acting in animation skills, thats why I am trying to create a scenario where both characters have some sort of an adrenaline moment in it.
I started to bloke out some keys for the lip sync but it’s not there yet so feel free to ignore it at this stage.
Ok I better stop rambling now cause this is getting out of hand! As always, feedback and crits are always welcome.
Hey everyone,
Today I tried to tighten the timing and spacing a little bit more, added some breakdown poses and started to check I get nice arcs.
I would appreciate it if you could tell me what do you think about the pose I added at frame 209-211. I wasn’t too sure about this pose at the first place, however I added it because I wanted to show the character is starting to feel a little uncomfortable as well as a little bit of a weight shift. He felt a little bit too stiff at the “proud” pose so I tried to break it a little bit. I am not sure it does the trick though.
Although there is still heaps that needs to be done, I would love to hear what you guys think.
Over the past few days I addressed some timing and poses that needed a bit more work and also started to work on the linear pass. I know that it still needs a lot of work, however I just thought I will share it with you here to give you some idea of where I am at.
Any comments and feedback is welcome.
