#animationfundamentals

Obstacle animation project: these are my background/ character design as well as my planning, I was inspired with images like old antique living rooms. and I wanted to changed up my character from a bear to a cat and felt it was fitting for a scenery and the scenario, were the cat (milk) starts  to ruin the environment around her.

This project has been great for learning new skills in movement - something I’m not the best at! In terms of my animation, I like to avoid walking or jumping or any kind of part that involves seeing a full body moving. So this project really was helpful in furthering my skills in that department. I particularly enjoyed the obstacle course part of the project, it really helped me get a swift movement while tackling different areas of movement. I also enjoyed the animal walk cycle section, it was interesting to look into the bones & inner workings of a cat and how it differs from people walking and to me it’s much easier, I don’t know why, there are 4 legs! Maybe it’s because they are crouched down, who knows. Either way I have learnt a LOT and would like to say it really has improved my walking and moving, although there is still room for improvement. In terms of work, I still need to update some of the box pushing but with other things piling up with finishing up on my 2 minute film & grad assist etc - I haven’t done so yet although short hopefully the gist of it is there. I have updated it ever so slightly but it isn’t finished. I will do it over the weekend. Overall I had lots of fun and I’ll keep practising my walking, jumping and animal movement, hopefully I can stop hiding from using those things in my films!!! :-)

Animation fundamentals obstacle course - WIP

Complete background

Background outline

This was one I did before the other, I didn’t like it much but now I compare think I prefer it!

The cat 🐱 some wip sketches