15/04/08 a soccer skill move I did Saturday morning

Saturday Morning Work

Soccer Move (Flip Flap)

3rd night 04/09/08

Well, I did erase everything and start again. However, before I got too far I started watching the clip I posted last time and I started to think about how I could fix it and I started to work on it. Suffice to say I stuck with it.



Tonight what you'll notice is that in the hour and a half I worked I only managed to smooth and manage some of the smallest things. I basically worked on planting and moving the feet, which for something out of the shot actually took a bit of time. I also started thinking a little more about the hips.

2nd night.. wasted? 04/07/08

Well, this was my progress tonight, but I don't like any of it. The trouble is the amount of movement I want out of my character It's too much for an old man and he's really zipping all over the place. I may have to rethink his action.





I'm erasing what I've done so far and starting again. I'm still going to shoot for the same blocking, but the way I added onto my animation did not give me the results I want. I'm going to go straight Key Poses and then tweak my inbetweens.

First Signs of life

Alright, I've finally decided on an audio clip and I've started to set my scene. I'm going ot be using 3 characters and no Props. The Audience...you... will be able to tell what is going on soley with the animation.

... I'm having trouble getting my Playbalsts to retain the sound information...
I may update this post later today with another clip.

UPDATE:

Final Night 03/26/08

Animation is finished and I'm pretty happy with it.

There are a few things, like body movement, that I really wanted to put in, but I realize now it's not worth the extra night of work for the subtle difference it will make.

C&C welcome

day three 03/25/08

I had a nice long break for Easter vacation and went home to visit my family.

I worked for about an hour and a half tonight to add finger animation. please excuse the arm at the end. I'm pretty happy with it, but it's the only thing moving.

2nd Night 03/19/08

Hey, I was actually getting some good work done tonight, but I have to get up early tomorrow for Yoga, so I'm heading to bed early.

This has the rest of the arms roughed in, but there is still a problem with the middle of the animation. I don't have the arms transitioning properly between the two major movements.

I started to play around with this rigs mouth poses, but I'll have to redo all of the mouth, but it was fun to play with.

I forgot to Mention that I did not build this rig, I got it off the internet, it was built by PJ Hogan.