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Followed by the swing jump test I did a few days ago, I decided to try and push the whole idea a bit more. I wanted to practice a few more fundamentals but at the same time, keep the action in the shot fairly simple.

What I did was animating a stick figure jumping from one side to another, like the triangle shape did, only this time I reversed the direction of the jump. One of my targets was to add a little bit of a story and purpose/ intention behind the jump.

The settle on the vine is not finished yet. It’s still work in progress.

Here is the first pass:

I also started working on this whip action tutorial by Jason Ryan.

I had the day off work today so it gave me some time to start two new tests.

After the last few tests I worked on it felt like it will be worthwhile to come up with an idea for an animation test that will incorporate some of the things I have been practicing and reviewing through Jason’s tutorials.

This is the first pass of the Mechanic Arm test:

I tried to show texture in the weight, phrases, timing and spacing, arcs, drag and follow through. I know it’s not there yet so if you have any comments, please share them with me.

And this is the first pass for the Triangle swing test (I got the idea from watching Indiana Jones the other day), essentially I am going to animate a stick figure jumping from one side to the other, but in order to test the timing, spacing, drag and follow through, I started of with a simple triangle shape.

The jumping tutorial of Jason’s website helped me a lot to figure out how to think about a jumping action.

To sum up I added the final version of my flour sack jumping test.