Animation Fundamentals - Project 2

 

16/05/2023 - 23/05/2022 (Week 07- Week 08)

Yong Kai Yi (0352826)

Animation Fundamentals

Project 2: Walk & Jump Animation

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Week 7

Project 2 (Progression 1) - Walk Cycle Animation

Reference:

I referred to the book <The Animator's Survival Kit> by Richard Williams. I read through from pg102-117, in the book, the author mentioned a lot more details in animating the walking cycle as different people/characters walk differently, and audiences can tell the character's personality by observing the walking style. 

 

fig: pg108 from <The Animator's Survival Kit> by Richard Williams

fig: rough walking cycle time-lapse

Firstly, I used my character's side view as a reference for proportion purposes, then I started to sketch out the contact, down, pass, and up pose. After showing it to Mr.Kamal, I realized the poses are not connected (the feet were not tied) hence I need to move each pose closer until the feet met at the same point. For the tie-down, I remain the upper body part for all poses in order to remain consistent, then I sketch out the legs and hands. 

Rough:

fig: walk cycle_rough_with lines

fig: walk cycle_rough

Tiedown:

fig: walk cycle_tiedown

I tried to animate to hair by applying the technique from the exercise boucing ball with tail.

Final Reel:

fig: walk cycle_final reel

Project 2 (Progression 2) - Jump Animation

Progressions:

fig: 1st attempt (referring to animator's survival kit):

During the progress, I received feedback from Mr.Kamal as I felt kinda weird and not smooth in terms of the action and frames, then I realized its running while jumping, Mr.Kamal said that this was too difficult and need to add even more frames than the reference from the book, its better to start with jump only. 

fig: time-lapse of jump animation rough progression

Outcome:

Rough:

fig: rough jump animation

Tiedown:

fig: jump animation tie down

Final reel:

fig: jump animation final