Basic Foundations Week 9 - Human Anatomy for Animators

Working from the Blocking stage...this week I worked to Refine/Polish my Vanilla Walk Cycle:

Here is another revision of the Tailor assignment.

The sketchbook assignment emotion for this week was CONCERN. Here are my planning sketches for the Stu pose. Check Stu out below:

Basic Foundations Week 8 - Introduction to Walks

This week we were to establish the blocking of our walk cycle animation. Here it is:

Here is a revision of last weeks Tailor assignment. My mentor advised to eliminate the pendulum and focus on Tailor. 

This week the focus is on learning the intricacies of the walk cycle. Majority of walk cycle follow the same format of having a contact key, extreme down, breakdown key, extreme high, and back to the contact key. Below is my planning for the walk cycle:

The sketchbook assignment emotion for this week was PHYSICAL STRENGTH. Here are my planning sketches for the Stu pose.Check Stu out below:

Basic Foundation Week 7 - Walk Through of Splining

This weeks assignment was a lot of fun and very challenging at the same time. Here is a my first pass at the assignment.

Below is a revision of last weeks assignment...the pendulum swing. I was able to re-do the drag on the pendulum at the beginning and fix the path of the impact swing. Also, I made some amendments to the how many passes were on the final swing. 

The sketchbook assignment for this week was to plan an animation of the Tailor rig. Tailor is very similar to a squirrel and was meant to help further drive home the principle of overlapping action. Here are my planning sketches for Tailor. Check it out below:

Basic Foundations Week 6 - Overlapping Action

For this weeks assignment we were to get a firm understanding of the concept of overlapping action. Basically, when an object moves...not all portions of it move at the same time because that would look robotic. Thus, overlapping action is very important to making an animation look realistic and flow. 

This week I also did a revision on my obstacle course. I changed the ended to make it more realistic and to avoid the awkward back and forth ending. 

The sketchbook assignment for this week was to plan a simple animation of a pendulum. Here are my planning sketches for the pendulum. I decided to do  a very simple animation this week in order to grasp the concept of overlapping action. Check it out below:

Basic Foundations Week 5 - Anticipation and Squash and Stretch

This weeks assignment was to animate a bouncing ball going through an Obstacle Course. We were to utilize the principles of squash and stretch as the ball moved through the course. The ball was to maintain the weight and timing of  a basketball/soccer as it moves through the course. Take a peak!

Thumbnail planning for the ball route through the Obstacle Course. 

The sketchbook assignment emotion for this week was DEVASTATION. Here are my planning sketches for the Stu pose. I decided to do  a variation of pose 3. Check Stu out below:

This was the final pose I turned in. Below are some other angles/poses:

Basic Foundations Week 4 - Introduction to Timing and Spacing

Week 4 we were to again animate bouncing balls, however, the idea was to create two different types of balls to bouncing. I decided to go with a ping pong ball and bowling ball.  Due to the differing weights and sizes of the balls, they bounce completely different. To develop these differences when animating, the timing and spacing must be adjusted to show the contrast. 

Basic Foundations Week 3 - Planning & Blocking Methods

For this weeks assignment, we were required to animate a bouncing ball with the weight and bounce of a basketball or soccer ball. Check it out.

Above is a detailed thumbnail drawing outlining my thought process for the bouncing ball assignment.

For this weeks sketchbook, we were required to draw figures expressing the emotion of EXCITEMENT. The exercise was meant to get us thinking of ways to communicate ideas to the audience from a single pose. I decided to pose the Stu charactering using drawing 10 as a reference.

Here is the Stu pose I decided to go with. 


Below are a few other poses I experimented with: