Weekly diary of work for ‘3D Animation Fundamentals’.
This week we practiced how to make the poses more expressive, and also learned how to do chain animation. In posing, it is necessary to remember the line of action and curve to avoid stiff posing. Distributing key frame can create a more natural overlap when doing chain animation. The more distribute it is, the looser it looks like. And I think the degree of distribution is related to the material of chain.
Here is the links to these two blogs:
I’m trying to avoid mirrored posing even if the references gave mirrored poses. Two examples are drama pose one and three. I believe the modified poses will impact more on emotion than the references. For ball & tail animation, I placed my fox outside the camera in the initial frame to create a sense of jumping into and out of the camera. Perhaps this is not the best choice, as it is best to start and end the animation in a natural pose. But I still try because I like this feeling of motion. And the anticipation of not knowing where the character would come from at first. Maybe that’s my staging design. I just don’t know if it’ll work.