Week 12:Advanced Body Mechanics Planning

key pose and blocking in Week 2

This week, I mainly placed the key pose and made the first blocking. I completed the start frame, end frame and several key frames in the middle. Then I need to continue to complete the subsequent transition animation work. This part focuses on how to master animation time and animation form in the scene. And add a dramatic effect of movement to the animation.

For example, suppose I want to convey an emotional progression through body language. In that case, I want to control the level of expression of my body language, from mild disappointment to anger to a full-blown outburst of emotion. This part becomes crucial in blocking.

George’s feedback

1: The movement of the starting frame, the body curve, is unnatural. One hand can be on the wall, and the other can be slightly on the wall.

2: The rhythm curve of the body in the reference video was not made. The character had an inertial movement of pressing down when the character got up, which I ignored

3: Modification of hand movements. Initially, two arms shook together but changed into a palm, gradually sliding down the wall.

Problems with the model

When I started to make the middle frame this week, I found that the binding of this character model’s shoulder, neck and head was too simple, so it was a little challenging to make the part of the head movement driven by the shoulders. However, this experience also helped me to find some problems in the process of character binding for project2.

Project 2 :Dragon modeling progress

Creature modelling

During this week I started modelling the character creature, I wanted the character to be very cute and animated. Of course it took me about two weeks to sculpt the model, as it was still very detailed.

The main traits of the character are often similar to the guardian beasts in Harry Potter, which surround the scene and the main character.

Mask design:

I continued working on the mask over the Easter holidays when George suggested I make changes to the face of the mask, I thought it looked like a cute little dog rather than a dragon and I searched a lot about Chinese theatre mask culture from over 800 years ago when I was working on it and I wanted to give the mask a unique meaning