#advanced animation workshop

[danielmcclainy2]

Advanced animation skills workshop Reflection

For the animations skills project, I think most of my work was ok. I think that I struggled most with the weight project. I think that it was hard to show the character struggle and convincingly show the weight of the boxes the characters is holding. I think I’m going to have to look at a lot more references to fully understand the movement. For the quadruped project, I think that this project went a lot more smoothly then weight project. I went down to a horse range that was close to my house and got some references of a horse walking. This helped me with breaking down the different movements of the horse. I split it up into different parts and this helps me understand the movements. I repeated this process for the trot and run. I think that the movement came out well. I just think I need to make some adjustments and I can improve it all. For the obstacle course project, I started with a 2D obstacle course inspired by video games like sonic. But then I realized that I had to have some three-dimensional perspective. So I redesign the background and started the animation again. I used references from the original ninja warrior and some YouTube videos for the rope climbing. The animation ended as a full minute. But I was happy with what I did.

[anthonylavagna]

DOG WALK/RUN CYCLES

Very useful reference video I found on youtube showing all typical canters of a dog. I used this video as reference for the majority of my walk and run cycles and sourced other materials for the start, stop, and walk to run transitions. 

[anthonylavagna]

WORK PROCESS SCREEN CAPTURE

This is a screen capture of how I animated my skeleton horse. I had a video of some muybridge footage of a horse run cycle playing and I tried to animate it by eye. I later layered a skeleton over the horse animation.

[anthonylavagna]

QUADRUPED RUN CYCLE REFERENCE

I used this old Muybridge footage to animation my skeleton horse. This was for my first brief for the animated sketch. Looking back I think I sort of miss read the brief. This serves better as a run cycle rather than a loose animation that the brief advised I should only spend 90 minutes max on.

[anthonylavagna]

DOG TRANSITION REFERENCE

After finishing the animations for both the walk and run cycles for my dog, I had to animate a transition between the two and make it feel seamless. This was actually trickier than expected as I struggled to find any live action footage of a dog moving from a walking to run position from a side on perspective. I’m aware it’s not wise to use an animated video as reference but as I was at a bit of a loss and pushed for time, I used the above video as a reference. I noticed that dogs sometimes leap into a run and decided to animate this action and found it worked rather well.

[dacrazyhead1]

Obstacle Course Project Character design

I character I have created for my Obstacle Course. It is not finished so many details could be changed; added or deleted. This is just a base what I would want to animate in my Obstacle Course.

[dacrazyhead1]

ROOFRUNNING - French Freerun Family

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Obstacle Course Project Reference

I was really excited about this project, and almost instantly I had parkour obstacles in mind. I felt like I should try make the most of this project and started to watch tons of videos for inspiration. I was always interested in freerun and parkour and I love doing it myself. So understanding of the movement when overcoming obstacles was already in my mind. I just needed some references for better angles and nicer shots. Parkour origins comes from France. I was always admired of the rooftops in Paris. That’s why I chose it for my animation as inspiration. (Well, if I can’t do it in Paris at the moment, at least I can animate it!)

[dacrazyhead1]

Quadruped Project Final.

The finished animation of idle to walk, walk to run and run to idle. During this project I found out a lot of useful information about canines and really improved my animating skills on a quadruped walk cycles. Observing, understanding and  conveying the movement to animation was not easy but I am happy about the outcome.