If each step shows progress, then things are better; regardless of how small. Moving through the muckity-muck stage of cleaning up movements and readjusting keyposes. The big challenge here for me has been keeping to the weight, snapping nd easing into poses and working with moving holds. Things here are slightly better than the last […]
Well. This last week, I ripped out a buch of stuff and started to pose better. Sections of the animation weren’t working for me (read: the last two-thirds). Fortunately, I think this round is much cleaner and clearer… and I did it without pointing.
Much of our discussion about acting is about trying to avoid the […]
Blocking… Blocking… Yes this stage is the most laborious for me. Blocking. Plunking in and posing the character’s main poses. The first step for this animation was to block out the feet and hips. Essentially this assignment is a walk cycle and dialog. Planning out where the steps go was mostly about shifting the weight […]
There is still something in me that calls out for flat images placed next to each other to create apparent movement. For me, it’s much easier to scribble in a bunch of lines to see how they move from one to the next rather than trying to tweek some three dimentional poses. This grease Pencil […]
