I had some spare time on the weekend so I started working on another JRA tutorial. This time around I am tackling the jump in perspective. So far I have learned a whole heap about the importance of opposite actions. This tutorial really explains and demonstrate that concept very well. I highly recommend to everyone if they get around it.
This is the flipbook I did, I am intending to combine it with another test I have worked on a few months ago (with the character and the rope/ vine swing), I have a feeling they might work well together in a sequence.
Have you ever got this feeling when working on a shot where you ask yourself, alright what is the next thing I can push to make this shot better? What else can I polish?
Well I did today
It’s been a few weeks since I started working on the crossover to Maya and I must say the reason I’m taking my time is to make sure I don’t overlook any important elements of the shot.
One of the things I wanted to test while working on this shot was what will the outcome be if I spend enough time on getting things to feel right. Some of the things I did involved getting feedback from my peers at work, reading about animation theory, methods and processes, tips, different blog posts I found on various websites such as Flip, Kevin Koch’s Synchrolux, Shawn Kelly’s tips and tricks, Carlos Baena and off course the watching and studying the tutorials of the one and only Jason Ryan.
In a sense I feel like I am at a stage where I looked at my shot for so long that I need a fresh eye to help me with some useful feedback on how to push it further. Currently I am trying to ask myself what can I do to bring it to a feature level? I guess the first thing I gotta do is take a break from it for a day or so hey?
