Week 3

This week I carried on with my idle poses for the ninja/samurai character. When looking back at the first two poses I did, I felt they weren't really showing that this guy was a samurai/ninja. I went back onto Google in search for more research images. My team mates Joe and Krzysztof showed me a game they had been playing called Mark of the Ninja.

As Mark of the Ninja was a cartoon style game, all the animations and poses for the ninja character were really over the top and exaggerated. This would help us as we're going a stereotype ninja/samurai character and the game's ninja idle poses would help too.  
I then transferred these references into my new idle poses. Looking at these reference images really helped me get my idle pose to appear more like a ninja. Compared to my previous poses I had done, these were by far better.

I'm happy to move on with these poses, however once I go into filming my primary research for my animation as I may want to make changes later on. Looking at both of these poses, I may have found a way to use. For my idle animation I may my ninja character in the pose at the top and over the 30-60 frames he'll end up with the pose at the bottom. This however is just an idea and I may not go 100% with the idea, Once I start filming my primary research I will hopefully have a better idea how the pose will play out.