Tag Archives: Weekly Animation

Challenge 10 (Part 3 & 4): Performance & Pre-Viz In this stage, I began animating stepped and flat animation in order to shape good key poses. I chose IK handle on arms so I focus on the arc of the … Continue reading →

Challenge 10 (Part 1): Phonemes & Performance (Lip Syncing & Facial Animation) I found my reference audio on 11 Second Club. And here is the clip. Then I typed audio into text so that I could lip-sync it. Here is … Continue reading →

Challenge 9: Advanced Body Mechanics The reference footage I chose was a dancing clip. I edited it in After effect to give it a time code. Also, I found out the frame per second is 25. And I brought this … Continue reading →

Challenge 8 (Part 2): Adding breakdowns, converting, and clean up, Rendering & Motion Blur / Playblasting & Motion Blur Here is my final animation after clean up and AE modification. And I’m going to break down all the steps I … Continue reading →

Challenge 7: Record/find reference footage For the body Mechanic exercise, I have selected an online video reference on kicking a ball. In the preparation stage, I added timecode displayed in frame numbers. In addition, I rendered an image sequence in … Continue reading →

Challenge 6 (Part 1): Walk Cycle Blocking A five second animation to show the walk cycle before polish. Also, I adjust the dope sheet to make toe flop looks more natural by smoothing it at 4 and 10 frames. Challenge 6 … Continue reading →

A animation practice for overlap, follow through, and secondary action.

Here are 3 action poses and 3 drama poses. I’m trying to avoid being too stiff and mirrored when posing these poses.

This week I created two animations, one bouncing ball with travel and one in the obstacle course. Squash & Stretch was applied.