This month I was in the character animation class and we had two projects to work on in the four weeks.
Final
For the first project, I chose the scenario "y
our character walks up to lean against a tree (or sit down on a bench) and a spider drops down and scares him." Below are my exploratory thumbnails, storyboard, and action breakdown for the scene.
Below is the progress I made daily on the animation:
Blocking
2nd Pass
For the 2nd pass I adjusted my camera angle to improve the horizon line and to make Antsy take up more space in the frame. I also strengthened some of my weaker poses and began to add breakdowns between the actions.
3rd Pass
At this point, the walk was basically done and I added anticipations to the actions.
4th Pass
In this pass, I worked on improving my weak anticipations and adding them where they were much needed. In the final animation at the top of this post, you can see that there were a lot of anticipations missing and I had to work to improve the final pose.
This project taught me a lot about animation and showed me what I still needed to work on in order to improve my skills. In this project, I learned the proper poses of a jump, but I still had some trouble with the landing since he was falling. I also learned about the importance of anticipation, which was always lacking in my animations before I started this class. Overall, there are still a few things that I would fix in this project, but I'm happy with how it turned out.
