Animated By Me

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Here's the planning and images associated with this week's exercise:

So after the arduous torture that was the Vanilla Walk I thought it would be a brilliant idea to make life even harder on myself. This assignment, again spanning two weeks, was the personality walk cycle. What did I choose? Only the world-famous Ministry of Silly Walks walk by John Cleese.

Once again the first week was blocking the shot in (as well as putting Stu in an 'exhausted' pose) and the second week was cleaning up (along with a 'balance' pose for Stu).

Blocking went fine, as usual, although there was a bit missing from it, according to my mentor; namely a weight shift to the front foot. I ended up putting that in before going on to do the clean up.

This was the first time I was able to video myself and use that as reference. It turns out I can't do the Ministry of Silly Walks walk. Who knew?

Still it was good enough for me to get some good timing out of my animation and make the most of the assignment, so I'll be using video reference a lot going forward!

I don't know how this assignment will go down with my mentor, but I'm pleased with how it turned out. It is a silly walk. I also learnt a lot in the lecture, which was by a great guy called Victor Navone. He works for Pixar and the lecture was on how to tidy up from blocking, which was ideal since I suck at that.

Well that concludes Class 1 for me. Next week we hit Class 2 - the Psychology of Body Mechanics. Technical sounding, ain't it?