Character Walk- Balloon

This is a brief outline of how the character will encounter the balloon in the character walk, watching this I discovered that the character just grabs the balloon as he walks past it, I need to add some character to the scene (such as the character stopping and getting a good look at what he has just seen) I then need to animate how the character is walking now that it has found a balloon as it must have an affect on the characters walk, I will modify this walk so that the character walks in a different way, I also need to add more frames of the character walking with the balloon and then think of a way of moving onto the next scene of the walk.

Life drawing 360 animation

In the life drawing class we went around the room moving to the left and in each chair we drew the model from a different angle, we kept doing this until we got back to our own seats, I have since then line tested my frames and ended up with a 360 degree pan of the model laying down. I am quite surprised at how this has turned out.

Character Walk- Progress so far

I wanted to test the character walk to see how it looked so far, From this test I think I might start with a different object, I shot this walk on doubles to slow the characters walk down therefore suiting the character due to his size. However timing the animation to 24fps I forgot to add a frame to compensate for the 25 fps frame rate. I need to make sure I keep the floor straight along with the shape of the character which needs to be consistent throughout! 

Character Walk- Initial Walk

This is my Character for the character walk part of the unit. In this animation I just made an initial walk cycle, i tried to experiment and see what it would look like with an actual character walking. I found that it was better for me to set it at 12 fps as the character was walking at a much better pace which suited his character, I plan on animating the belly as the body bounces up and down with the walk. I can then include the 3 items the character has to interact with.



Lip Sync 3rd attempt- Flash Version

Here is my third attempt at the lip sync I made this one using flash, Again I need to add a facial expression and make the eyebrows move, The eyes close on this one, I am quite pleased with this, I can now work on this as a Flash version, I found this easier and quicker than drawing the character out on a light box. Overall i think this is a good animation and something I can easily go back to and work on for improvements.

Lip Sync: 2nd Attempt

This is my second attempt at the lip sync, this time I tried to include a tongue and facial expressions, such as the eye brows moving up. I think the basic mouth shapes work well, but the movement of the eyebrows isn't fluid enough and therefore isn't convincing. The head seems to wobble like the 1st attempt. Other than that i am pleased with the rest of the animation.