Moom Platform: Blocking Removed and Graph Editor Improvements
For this lesson we had to think about timing and had to try and a-just the animation to the characters movements by removing the blocking and trying to line up the time with the movement and the expressions. I found this lesson quite easy especially since I feel I am now more used to blocking and animating using that technique, however I am still not, I feel as comfortable with using the graph editor, but In the second video I think my attempt to try it on the hip CTRL worked well, and although I still feel like the animation needs some more cleaning, I think it's turning out rather well.
There's something about the combination of your loose style and then the line-art in those little supporting studies that I think is beginning to work nicely - and it feels like it could feed back into your rendering of your establishing shot and the rest of your scenes: take a look at these example of animation backgrounds in the UPA-style for a sense of what I mean and how you might embrace confidently what you've established so promisingly in some of those cute little studies:
ReplyDeletehttp://animationbackgrounds.blogspot.com/2009/12/
https://www.pinterest.co.uk/pin/491385009314703154/?lp=true
You'll see they're a combination of flat colour, intermittent texturing and strong line art - there are elements of this getting started in your work here - and I think you could dial it in more boldly :)