daniel-lim.co.uk » excitement http://www.daniel-lim.co.uk I am Daniel's lack of witty tagline Tue, 09 Aug 2011 14:11:36 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Class 1 Week 3 http://www.daniel-lim.co.uk/2009/01/class-1-week-3/ http://www.daniel-lim.co.uk/2009/01/class-1-week-3/#comments Sun, 25 Jan 2009 07:38:16 +0000 Daniel Lim http://www.daniel-lim.co.uk/?p=20 Continue reading →]]> Week 3. The very first animation of the term, the year, the course! Well, obviously not the very first animation I’ve done this year but you can see why this would be important! Our brief for this week: “to animate a bouncing ball with the weight and bounce of a basketball or football in under 100 frames using the side view only.” and “Pose Stu communicating excitement based upon one of your sketches”.

Let’s start with the animation then! Here’s some all-important video reference footage I shot in the office:

Here’s the planning:

Unfortunately the truth is often stranger than fiction and having followed the reference too closely Shaun thought there were too many bounces for a football. So here’s the revised animation based on his critique:

Right, onto the ‘Excitement’ pose then. Here are the sketches:

And here’s the final pose I did for the hand in:

I think there are some revisions I can make to this pose, but overall: a good week!

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