Motion Studies

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After handing in this weeks deadlines, i decided to finish of my showreel for Andy's and Kathy's Motion Studies brief, played againt Toby Keith's Red Solo Cup. Enjoy.

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Motion that Emotion

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I wanted to re do my Emotion project for Andy's Sea motion studies brief, as I felt my previous version lacked presence. My new character jumps for joy before falling over and have a tantrum.

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Motion Studies: Final Walks

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here are my three final walks for Andy's Motion studies brief.

Flirty 

Late For Work 

Good Mood:

(this is my least favourite)

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Motion Studies : Late for work

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here is my first attempt of my late for work walk taken from Andy's motion studies brief:

im not happy with one of the inbetween as the two legs are in a peculiar position.

but  here is my reference for it 

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Walk Cycles - good mood

for one of my chosen walk cycles I wanted to try an animate my flatmates weird shuffley excited walk. (see reference)

here is the start of my first attempt 

and here's the final attempt, she looks perhaps more distracted than in a good mood. 

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Flirty female again

here is my final flirty walkcycle, 

however before I got to my final version I went through this draft however i still wasn't happy with the leg positions as I felt that her left leg was in the wrong position.

Motion Studies

As part of our motion studies brief we were asked to create at least three different walk cycles featuring exaggerated performance.

we were given six different emotions to choose from:

- late for work
-  distracted
- good mood
- bad mood
- flirty female
- macho man

here is my first attempt at a flirty females walk.

as you can see it goes a bit wobbly around the 12th frame, as the gap in between the legs becomes to large and breaks the knee joint. 

above is attempt 2 as you can see it still goes a bit out on the second step but is much better than the first attempt but still needs minor improvements as well as the addition of the rest of the body.

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Motion Studies - lifting with emotion

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For the motion studies section of our second semester we are looking into motion and performance and what makes things believable, which involves acting workshops, life drawing and various bizarre workshops.

In today's lecture we looked at stability and your centre of gravity, e.g a big headed small bodied character would not be stable and a really tall character would have a less stable centre of gravity then a shorter stodgier character.

But the main aim of the lesson was to look at weight and inparticular  the motions and anticipation involved in a character picking up something which is very heavier, for example a character picking up a small box may be more concerned about how their clothing may get in the way whereas with a heavy objects you will see the character think over how they will go about it, as Richard Williams says its the action that tells us how heavy it is.

Anyway our 'homework' assignment was to animate in any medium a character sizing up and picking up a box. here is my short clip animated in flash so far, however im not quite sure i've quite got the weight reference right yet.

Thanks for watching :)