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[crazydaisychook]

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[yoonichi]

Cooperation Project - Animation

For the animation I got Jenny’s design, which was a zombie type character wearing overalls and has his tongue sticking out and on his head is a pumpkin with a mischievous face. I was looking forward to this as I felt like I could include some fun movements.

To start off I re-drew the character so I could get a feel for it and make him face in the direction needed. 

I then moved onto drawing the limbs so I could focus on the walk cycle, to do this I colour coded the front and back limbs to make it easier to see. I also looked up a walk cycle of a zombie to suit the character and I suppose try and make it a bit easier.

This was the final outcome on the character, I feel it came out well as it still looks like the character handed to me. I definitely feel I could have worked more on it because I had some troubles trying to keep the hands and feet the same as the design.

Also, I did want to follow the walk cycle I used as reference where it was more of a 3/4 view but, the more I worked on the animation the less 3/4 it got. Animating the background was fine very simple to do it but, the background object was bigger than what was asked so it does seem to be going faster than the walk cycle itself.

The final look was fine but, there’s a lot more that I could have done and played around with. I could have made the walk cycle a lot cleaner as well. Overall I’m quite disappointed with this but, I think it’s acceptable in the least.

[yoonichi]

Cooperation Project - Design

For this project the brief was to come up with an overall theme in our groups, create a character and background object and animate another person’s design for a walk cycle. For this our group, the Crazy Costume Bash, spoke about different themes that we were interested in. Some ideas were underwater themes to space and magic, in the end we agreed on a costume party theme. This way we could be adventurous with the design, I really like this theme because it was fun to see all the different characters, everyone involved had great ideas and great designs.

For my character I originally wanted to do something based on the Pumpkin people in Over the Garden Wall, this eventually evolved into wanting to do something in the style of the black and white Betty Boop animations, where the characters are very loose looking and have a wavy flow to them. 

In the end I took a lot of inspiration from the old Betty Boop animations as I really liked the design of the clown and thought it would be a fun to play with. I ended up taking different aspects from different characters.

These were my firsts sketches put down from the image I had in my head, I feel you can see what came from where with the inspiration. Honestly, I was very happy with this design.

I kept my character black and white just because I liked the look of it really, I was thinking about having splashes of colour but I think this works really well with the character. For my background I decided to do a jack in the box, honestly it was the first thing that popped into my mind. I feel like it fits well with this character.