Haydn Spencer

This is my final animation loop. I decided to expand the sequence by including another punchbag in blue for the cheese grater to punch. I feel this makes the sequence look more visually interesting as the colours match the character’s.

Young male form, ears, hands and foreshortening

Older male form and expressions

Using charcoal, pencil and chalk to map out light and shadow on the body

Female form and how light affects the body

Introduction to Life Drawing and drawing poses

Here is the final animation loop of the punch. I feel that I should extend it so that it gets closer to the criteria of ten seconds. Currently I am very proud of what I have achieved so far with this animation.

I feel this works well as it has the same boil as the character and matches the movements. It does need a few tweaks before it is finished so that everything stays on the same plane, but I am quite happy with this shadow effect.

To make the character and background fit together, I thought about adding a shadow under the character to ground him on the set. This is my first try. I initially liked that the shadow has its own type of animation boil like the character, but after a while I felt the shadow wasn’t as good as it could be, as it was varying too much each frame.

In earlier drafts if the animation, I included an impact flash, which I knew that I wanted to work back into the final animation at some point. I feel like this helps give the punch more ‘oomph’ visually.

This has turned out a lot smoother than my previous attempt and as a result looks a lot better.

I used a ‘Charcoal’ effect in TVPaint to give the character an aged roughness around him. I might revisit this before the final render to layer the grime on him, but I am happy with it in its current state.

This is the first render including the background. I think it works well, but there are some minor additions that I have to make to fully incorporate the character. These are elements such as a shadow underneath him, as well as shading to give the character more depth.

Here is the finalised animatic. It is now in the 30 second bracket, all that needs to be done now is export it in the right high quality format for submission.

One thing I feel like I might need to change is making the background a little less dark so that the character doesn’t blend with it. Whether I do this by blurring the background more, or giving it a light shade, I must keep in mind not to make everything the same colour or else it will all blend together.

Here is a test of adding shading to the character to give him more depth. I feel that this looks good, but could be improved by being done neater. 

In a tutorial, some minor changes were suggested to my design sheet, such as toning down the background so it didn’t clash with my character, and changing the biography so it doesn’t describe him as much as it did.