Walks

It’s time to upload my new anim assignment – a full body vanilla (fancy way of saying generic) walk cycle. Everyone walks differently and there is no such thing as a normal walk. As far as the assignment is concerned, we just need to achieve a walk that is devoid of personality as much as possible. Walk cycle is hard, both with or without personality. (What will animation be if it isnt hard?) Before I post my walk, I want to point out some great resources on walk cycle.

ARC - my usual place to find help. Keith Lango VTS touched on walks too. And these set of Kyle Balda notes I found on my sch server. Speaking of Kyle Balda… I recently (a few months ago) saw his tutorial highlights abt acting with dialogue. Curious abt the diff approaches to acting scenes… before I start learning it.

(WOW, I just discover a new button on wordpress to insert a whole gallery of images. I can insert multiple images at one go! To do that, find ur gallery tab after clicking ‘insert image/video’ icons and scroll down. You will see the magic button.)

Ok, finally, my walk cycle. I animated 4 steps and looped it 3x. It looked pretty good to me on the day it was approved. The next day, it became crap! Haha, not that serious, but I saw quite a few unnatural areas… mainly the overlap at the hands and head. Perhaps even the torso and pelvis area. I can’t really pinpoint the mistakes. It will be nice if someone can enlighten me on it.

Pictures and a story

 

this post is kind of random… thought it will be nice to upload some pics, mainly taken from exhibition visits.

came across a nice (thought-provoking?) chicken soup story at a rare visit to library.

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this is why i havent been updating my blog (not sure if anyone noticed). any moment i get to use any com, i need to study and do my assignments, therefore neglecting blogging. now i have difficulties thinking what to write abt.

Animation exercises so far

we r getting into body mechanics, like walking, jumping… and i dont know what else (wait till i get to the rest). im excited that i finally can make a character move, not just plainly practising the animation principles. but i probably will practise the fundamentals more when i feel like im struggling with them.

the lectures (and assignments) are getting more challenging… which is good. i need to make my brain think (harder)!

Figure Dump

Spamming my blog with figure drawings…

1.5 min gestures

 

10-15 min studies

 

lighting studies, 20 min

 

drawing hw… lots of body/hand gestures. i didnt really do gestures, i was applying what i have learnt in vilppu’s videos, trying to figure out how the body is constructed with blocks. you can see from the 1st eight pictures below. as for the rest, they are less than 3 min gestures. we were to watch a movie and drawing interesting poses from it. the movie i selected was ‘the girl with a pearl earring’. the film has similar colour/lighting scheme as vermeer’s painting of the same name. pretty cool. 

i love movie gestures.

Drawings

Some couple of drawings from this week lesson… didn’t have any good ones (im still waiting for that one day to say i have improved). Trying exaggeration on the 4th drawing. my long poses (the 5th drawing) always look off. i think its the shading and the lack anatomic knowledge.

      

couple of sketches of PATO from POCOYO. i love the poses of the pocoyo’s characters! they look deceptively simple to construct but it’s so hard to draw them well! maybe it’s because i cant draw simple geometrical shapes properly.