Heel Click

This is the first assignment for this semester.  We had four weeks to plan, block, refine and polish this animation.  We had to stay in between 100 and 150 frames and choose from a list of movements.  I chose the oh-so-cool heel click!  Enjoy!

Personality Walk

For our final assignment of Class 1 (WOOHOO!), we had to animate 'Ballie' walking with personality.  This personality should give the viewer some sense of story or emotion.  I chose a skip because it was a fun way to show my excitement over the success of my first animation class!  Thanks to everyone who encouraged and supported me while I reached for the stars!

Balance

This week, we had to pose STU showing a sense of balance.  I made a video reference of myself balancing in order to get a sense of weight, and after many times of almost falling came up with these sketches and eventual STU.  The plates are an added accessory to help better sell the action.

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Exhausted

For this assignment, we had to pose STU with the feeling of exhaustion.  We first sketched, then posed it out.

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Vanilla Walk

For this assignment we had to study a basic "vanilla" walk.  The first half of the assignment was to 'block' out each key pose on every 3rd frame.  This it to get us a generic starting point for a polished animation.  Then, we had to smooth out the gaps between the poses and create a believable walk.  (All the meanwhile thinking about hip rotation, up and down and forward movement, and even the toes landing at the proper time.)

 

 Vanilla Walk at its 'Blocking' Stage.

Vanilla Walk at its 'Final Polishing' Stage.

Concern

This assignment asked us to convey the emotion concern.  Again, we had to sketch first and then pose it out.  I found this a bit more difficult to do with just body language and no props.  Here is the end product.

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Tailor

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.