20 second animation

character design, I sketched out a few different designs and asked what general opinion was on which was the best, I choose the rabbit ear looking one so I could pull him out the ground.









story board:



walk test reference

I looked closely at the reference video and I tried to make sure the knees go forward first followed by the rest of the leg swinging in to line in this short walk test clip. I think it was largely successful however looking at it now I think it could be improved if the steps taken were slightly bigger.


Final animation

anticipation

the purpose of this project was to show anticipation, usually through a short pause in movement before a jump or another action kind of movement. tom and jerry videos are a good example which show anticipation well, in the video below at 0:13 the cat raises the machete high in the air with a short pause to allow people to register what he is doing.

I made a quick story board to plan out what I was doing

I have tried to show anticipation through bending the knees and putting the arms out for balance. I think it would have looked better had I gone with some more like tom and jerry and had one of the characters raise some mallet high up and then pause as I have not really used a pause in this video. Although I do think the viewer knows what is going to happen next just before he is about to a backflip due to their position. one thing I could have improved on this was the knees of the man jumping, in the animation below he keeps his knees straight which makes it look unrealistic. I could have also added more images in to the actual jump to make if flow better.