Week 6 - Presentation

Week 6 marked an important landmark in the module for our group, this week we would have to present our overall progress and blogs to the class and Sam. In Tuesdays lesson me, Joe and Krzysztof stood up in front of the class and presented our work so far. The main objective in overall work progress that we had to have done for the presentation was to have our blogs all up to date and detailed with images and us talking about our progress and work. The other was to have two of our animations done for the lesson. The two animations I had done were the idle and my character opening a window. My other team mates Krzysztof and Joe both met the required objective to. So our group is currently on track to get the show reel done. The general feedback from Sam was positive with some handy tips to help with my animation. One thing for me was for my crouching/opening window animation I needed to be careful with how the head moves to the rest of the body. With the idle animation, she said that it looked fine and wouldn't really need to add much more to it. However the crouching/opening window animation is still kinda in the blocking out stage so I can add a lot more to make it better and interesting. This she would go through with me in next weeks lesson once all presentations were done. Overall I'm happy with how our groups animations are coming along and I know we'll meet the deadline.

This week I begin my third aniamtion, which will be the walk cycle that the ninja character goes into after the idle animation. I tried to brekdown my primary research video of me acting out the walk. I paused the video at the key points and took a screen shot. Below is an image of the walk cycle brocken down, showing the key poses.



I would then use this to help me with the block out of the walk cycle. I haven't done a walk cycle since the first year module for animation. I found it tricky at first, the walk cycle started to look clunky and a unlife-like. However once I collected some primary research and found some images that helped me last year, the animation finally started to look like he was properly walking.