This
walk cycle helped me a lot with my animation because I never knew how to do a
walk cycle. I spent a lot of time and this made me better.
This
is the image that I have used for my reference to help me to make my character jump.
This image helped me a lot because without this image I wouldn't get the timing
right or the positions.
1) This is my first plan for obstacle course.
2) This is my second plan for obstacle course. I think this plan is much better because it looks interesting and also it has more details.
I have modelled my obstacle course in Maya. So far it looks really simple i will have to make this more interesting and long.
For
this obstacle course I have used a ball instead of character because I’m just
planning how my animation will look like. Now will start to add more obstacles
and character.
I
have added more obstacles because I want to make it more interesting and long.
Using
this character is very easy once you get used to it. I'm using this character
for my animation because the height is perfect. I
never animated any characters in my life this is the first time I will be
animating and it will be challenging.
When
I made the character jump I was using right view but I made a massive mistake
by going to perspective view and moving the character to the right so
the character can hold on to the pole. Then when I play it it's like
his on the air and suddenly gets power from nowhere.
This
is where I struggled so much I didn't know how to rotate this character. I
never struggled that much in my life in Maya because I couldn't make that
character face the other way. Then somehow I managed to do it.
I
think I done very good animating the back flip because the timing is good. It
took me time to animate the back flip but it looks realistic.
Overall, my final animation is okay it's not bad or good. At first the character starts too slow then at the end it's too fast. To make this better I will have to spend more times and get more reference. I need to animate more and more to get better at this because the more you animate the more you learn and better you will get. Next time I will have to start the project well before not leave it at the last minute. My animation is too short it’s not long enough and it's not great.Next time i will have to read the brief at least 4 times because i don't understand most of the things are written in the brief. My next 3D animation will be much better because now I have an idea how to animate and I have learnt to spend more time animating. By doing this unit I have learnt so much things that I could learn in many years for example animating at home, Read the brief, spend more time on Maya, look at animations, watch cartoons, make every second useful not useless, while animating don't get distracted, no Facebook or YouTube. My next animation will be much better and interesting
