Week Four: Run Cycle Rap-Up

Well, it was the final moments of my run cycle, and I am happy with some things, but also disappointed in some other things. I found it a very difficult to animate an animal that I have not had much experience drawing, as well as, not having studied the animal too much, but I did enjoy the project and am hoping to have time to correct the animation after obtaining some feedback from you ,and our classmates. This weekend I watched several videos on Ostriches, and helped me in many ways.

Week Three: Run Cylce 2

After working on this weeks speed exercise, I found that I need to manage my time a little better, and the difficulties in making a run cycle look correct. I am really hoping to produce a well done run cycle, which shows god solid leg movement, as well as, correct torso movement. I am hoping to make my character run smoothly, have some really good motion that includes a jump during the run cycle. Through the speed exercise, I learned a couple thing that will help me when working on my character run cycle. I found another run cycle that I liked, and I believe that can help in creating my own run cycle. At about the 50 sec. mark of the video, I like the way that Wile E. Coyote runs while chasing the Roadrunner.

Week Two: Run Cycle

This past week we started talking about run cycles, and after reading the survival kit; I found there are many different things that go into the run cycle. You have to worry about where each body part goes, and maintaining the size of each body part. Then you can enhance your run cycle by adding details such as hair, clothing movement, and adding personality to the run cycle. I was watching Disney's Snow White, and the run cycle of the dwarfs as they are racing after the evil witch is so well done. The amount of detail that is shown to the dwarfs and the witch as the are running is incredible. The run cycle happens in the first couple minutes of this video, and I really enjoyed the detail that was showed here and I hope to accomplish some of these details.

Week One: Flow

This past week we worked on a speed exercise that demonstrated the principles of flow animation, and I found the speed exercise to be challenging but fun. I found that I was able to get more work done than expected because I forced myself to work. Then as a follow up to this project; I decided that I was going to create a whole new project exploring flow animation, and demonstrate it by showing a rope under water. I found this challenging, and I also ended up fixing my seaweed and putting it in the new flow animation I worked on.