These are key frames from tonight’s take. I might just have the animated version sitting in Dropbox and just post the keys here with all the luck i’m having posted animated material here lately.
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Take
A take is a violent shocked reaction. This is my first shot at doing one just around the bust area. For now i’m just sticking with a fairly standard issue ga-WUH?! reaction instead of a far out Tex Avery take where the character bounces off the moon in surprise. Turns out this rig has lots of cartoonish deformability built into it. Look very closely and you’ll even see derp eyes for a couple of frames.
I started on sort of a shuffling, depressed walk but i bailed on it. Need to go back and restudy the literature on walks. Maybe try working with reference footage again.
Tomorrow’s my designated break day then it’s back to animating again on Sunday.
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Dance!
I was out of ideas tonight and having to do a super quick animation sesh from having much of my evening occupied by other things. But every minute of experience helps…
I tried to copy some rhythmic bobbing for lack of ideas and inspiration but it all went very bad. 2D does not translate well to 3D. The rules are really different. Also i think i have an innate tendency for snappy motion right now – it makes conveying weight a bit tricky. Need to work on it. This motion feels a little bit too quick, perhaps. Too weightless.
I quite like the slight tense wiggle in the head. It’s like he’s screaming.. so tense and horrified.
Right now i’m still at the stage of encountering lots of interesting unexpected accidents though and i’m happy to keep doing that for a while as a matter of playful experience. It’s a matter of studiously going back through the graph editor and dope sheet and discovering what makes these interesting unexpected accidents feel how they do, then learning what i did so i can do it again if i want to.
Oh and to those of you who will never sleep again after seeing this: i’m so, so sorry.
I said to myself at the beginning i’d try to do at least a little animation every day, no matter how i felt. This is one of those days. I’m tired as hell so here’s a sleepy person.
I hope at least looking at this guy sleeping peacefully makes you feel sleepy and peaceful.
Uploading this has been interesting. The version on ones (25fps) didn’t upload right, the version on twos (12.5fps) didn’t upload right either.. and strangely, the version on threes (8.3fps) doesn’t look that different from either. It isn’t animating on the web so there’s Dropbox links for each.
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Zombie
So i couldn’t think of what to animate today until the last minute. I went with a zombie walk because i’m feeling more comfortable with walks after having done a couple.
My animation doesn’t have a lot of weight in it yet but i feel like i’m getting better at spotting and attending to glitchiness. Everything’s still a bit stiff and weightless right now but i suspect walks show the (in)ability to convey weight in animation fairly brutally. I’ll keep at it, then.
