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Week 12 - Walk Cycles with Personality

Last week we had to create basic, naturalistic walk cycles so this week we were given the task to create a walk cycle with a personality based off of a character of our choice. I chose Eeyore from Winnie the Pooh. Yes, Eeyore is a donkey so he wasn’t exactly the easiest to replicate, so I instead aimed to portray his pessimistic outlook and melancholy tone. So I guess this is what I imagine Eeyore would walk like if he was a human.

It’s definitely not perfect and could use a little refining in the future but I think it conveys the tone pretty well. I tried playing around with timing; Eeyore is quite slow so I tried to show that as best I could. I also tried to have the character drag their feet a little.

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Video Essay

Here is my video essay on the 12 Principles of Animation.

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Video Essay Script

You can click here to find the script for my final video essay on the 12 principles of animation.

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Week 11 - Walk Cycles

This week was walk cycles! These took forever and they aren’t perfect, of course, but I’m pretty stoked with how they turned out. I included a 2D animated walk cycle I did about six months ago for comparison. I remember being so excited by how lifelike it seemed and look at how far I’ve come since then. I couldn’t have imagined it. I’m really happy with the hip movement and the general timing. Also, I think offsetting the chest rotation helped a lot. This was perhaps more of a sentimental reflection then you were hoping for markers, but hey.

Onwards and upwards.

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Week 10 - Character Weight Shift

This week our task to animate a character shifting their weight from one leg to another. We had the choice of animating in a side step but I feel like without one feels more natural. I’m pretty happy with how these turned out, I think it’s really good to get my head around these naturalistic movements.

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Week 9 - Pull, Push or Lift an Object

Saying this task was difficult is an understatement. I really struggled with this one. As you can see from the very little I’ve included due to both difficulty and time constraints. I’ll make sure to properly understand constraints for the future but unfortunately, this is all I have for this one.

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Week 8 - Character Jump (Polished)

From the photos here I’m sure you can tell I had a little bit of trouble with this one. Maya did not want to co-operate every time I tried to adjust anything. It was a lot of reverting back to previous saves and trying again. As a result, the jump isn’t as exaggerated as I would have liked but nevertheless, I think it runs fairly smoothly. Had to adjust the arm arcs to make them rotate the right way and generally look normal, adjust the timing and try to exaggerate some of the keyframes.

PSA: save lots of versions of your work, kids.

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Week 7 - Character Jump (Blocking Pass)

This week we were given a reference video of a man jumping and asked to create a blocking pass based off of the character’s key poses. I think this was a really good exercise for importing reference videos into Maya, as it was really useful to have the video so close to what I was working on. I also think it was a good exercise for recognising and interpreting key poses in movement.