Animation project

Hey people!

I am closing in on my last portfolio week and now we have a 3 week project with animation.

These 3 weeks we have to make a 25-30 second long animation, which is 600 – 840 frames long.

The first week i will have to find the business of the scene and make a character that fits it. I will also work out a reference and block out the scene.

Week 1

Monday: I start to make some short briefs and try to get shit in and shit out.

Tuesday: Decide the business of the scene and get feedback. Try to make planning for reference.

Wednesday: Make reference, finish reference, start with some key poses and then make the candy machine and make broom with controllers, to constrain the hands to.

Thursday: Start blocking out the scene.

 

Posing:

I have come a far part in the blocking part, and i can see the silouettes looks nice, and i have to keep that integrity for the character.

 

The broom:

The broom is gonna be a thing to solve. After some feedback from my teacher, we tought it was the best to make the broom have 3 controllers, 1 main controller which the two others are parented to and the broom. The 2 other controllers can only go up and down, and this is where i constrain both hands, so i always can move the hands up and down. This wil also make the main controller be the one that i animate.

 

Business of scene

The shop owner Willy.

Shop owner Willy has just opened his store. He is happy, sales went through the roof today and now its time to close. You can see that his store is in order and everything is sorted and looks nice. He is now sweeping the floor and is about to close up.

Willy is sweeping the floor with a broom. He is heading towards the door to sweep the dirt outside the door step. Hes happy and sweeps his proud floor. Now Willy opens the door and sweeps the dirt outside. Willie closes the door and turns the sign on the door from open to close.

Week 2:

Week 2

Monday: Keep blocking. Get more nice poses and some facial expressions.

Tuesday: Focus on refining those poses. Make breakdowns and inbetweens as well.

Wednesday: Make a new reference for the ending.

Thursday: Focus on the reference, delete some blocking poses and do them over.

Friday: Refine those new poses and keep working.

 

This week i am gonna try to get to blocking plus and get to spline before the week is over. I feel i had some good feedback so far and i changed a lot of the poses. I changed the pose where he touches the door handle and i also changed the putting the broom one down and the one that hes depressed.

The most important one is posing, and to get this right i needed some feedback from my teacher. The first pose that i changed was the opening the door one, where i lacked the line of action. It looked more like he threw a ball or was gonna hit someone.

 

I changed some major poses and saved lots of time. On the broom part i made it less stepping and more about throwing the broom so it can build up the crash.

On the broom, I dropped the constraining. This was because it was a lot of work for just almost nothing.

Week 3

Week 3

Monday: Go into spline, clean up graph

Tuesday: more about those breakdowns and arch and make the animation more alive

Wednesday: keep working on the same as yesterday.

Thursday: finish touches, polishing.
This week has been challenging, since i also had to make the last of the animation over again since the other one turned to stone.

 

Finished:

Now that i have finished my animation, i can see a lot of improvement that can be made. I can see where i missed everything and where i worked the most. I have tried to make it a even workflow, but its hard, but for my first animation, i am pleased. I planned, made reference, anticipated problems, started blocking out the scene, deleted some of the blocking, made them over again. Made therebetween and then went into spline and fixed the animation up.