3D Character Animation

This is my final rap and clap video, although i like what i have done, i also feel dissapointed with my self!!! First i believe i coudl have done alot more work to it, but wanting to get it done and out of the way made me 'rush' a little. i spent alot of time animating the feet, but deemed pointless when i renderd it out!!!

Just done all my timings and got all the legs to where i want them to be on the animation, a few tweaks are necessaries but i quite like the look and feel, i want the character to be quite camp, as the song is quite campish!

This is just a quick render of my rough rap and clap, not everything is in the correct place, but the timing seems to be in the correct place.

Towards the beginning of my blog when i was researching i came across a Milt Kahn walk, which i found very interesting and the animation looked really well, sort of looked like a disneyesque walk. When reading the Richard Williams book, i actually found this animation broke down, with all the timings and key poses jotted down, i think this could be a really interesting side project i will work on!

When reading the Richard Williams Book, the animators survival kit, i came across this page and found it very interesting. If we are to make a piece of work look much better, then we MUST follow these simple steps. I will try and inappropriate what he says in these statements to bring more realism to my animations

Just some simple drawings of a story board and drawings of how i wanted the ball to look, it really helped having this story board as i knew what i wanted before i actually started animating the objects!

This was a first simple test i tried to create my personality walk, what i tried to do was replicate on of the videos i have refrenced in down the page!!! it works ok but the legs move a little too fast for my like

Wow, this took a while to figure out!!!, but think ive managed to get it the best i can, the end hand is MUCH betetr than the bigginning half, but when running in maya look alot smoother :/ althoughi think it still works ok. i particulary like the breath in when he is about to say whats happening

Personality Walk Cycle Front Camera Final Again after the feedback from the tutorial group i went back to the drawing board and did some slight alterationts and got this, from the front i think tyhis personality walk cycle has some really strong poses and works quite well!!!

My Final Personality Walk Cycle from Side view After a chat and some verbal feedback i went back and rejigged and re configured my female personality walk :) i think it works much better now, this is from the side view to go along with the front view!!!! i particulary like the arm movements now :)

My video reference for my rap and clap, i have not lip synced to the audio as this will be done later on, this is just to get a rough idea of what i am seeing in my head and best way to get it down onto paper

The Female Walk Cycle with the character walking towards the camera, will render out again soon with more steps! After todays session and speaking to my tutor's we decided that the arms where to 'flappy' so i am currently re configuring it to make the animation work better!.

One walk cycle with a female character which i have just created !

Today in a talk he gave to a small group of students!

After a discussion with my teacher, we decided that in the original animation the bounce 'floated' around in mid air, so i went back to the drawing board and redesigned and framed it all. Now with the faster bouncing the animnation feels much smoother and in y opinion gives the ball much more personality, i especially love the new ending :D

Inspirational words of wisdom!!! must look over when i get stuck!