For this assignment, I had to animate this character and give it the essence of a squirrel. The main objective of the animation is to achieve overlapping action, which can be seen in the tail of the character. As one segment of the tail moves, the other follows through. This character's name is Tailor.
For this assignment, I needed to sketch poses of physical strength. This was particularly challenging without the use of muscles or facial expressions. However, props were allowed, but it was working around the prop to make sure the character had a good 'silhouette'. While keeping in mind a strong line of action and weight of the scene, I came up with the following images.
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For this assignment, we focused on "Overlapping Action": the wave of movement from one joint to the next. Here the character zips across the screen, stops, and the pendulum attached shows the Overlapping Action.
For this assignment, I had to animate a bouncing ball traveling through an obstacle course. The ball was to be moved by physics and not have a life of its own (except for the 'anticipation' at the very beginning). There were many courses to chose from, but this one looked the most fun!
This assignment required us to pose the Stu character in a way to show devastation. We first had to sketch out ideas and then pose him in Maya.
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| Poses of devastation. |
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For this assignment, we needed to incorporate two different balls of size and weight. In this animation, I chose to show a bowling ball and a beach ball dropping from the same height.
