REPORT CA2

INTRODUCTION

This assignment had focus on animation of a bony character. We worked with a pre made skeleton/bony rig, which we should make two different animations from.

INTERPRETATION OF THE TASK

When i started on this assignment, I had to make some good reference and thumbnails, to actually know what I was supposed to do with the animation part. I choosed to go for a confident young man and an old guy walking with a walking stick in his left hand.

CONCEPT

There was no specific concept for this assignment, except for the animation part itself. We had to find and make some good reference to really show what we were doing with this task. My concept for this weekly assignment was an old man with a walking stick in his left hand, and a young confident man.

SCHEDULE:

MONDAY; Woked with reference and prepearing of thumbnails. 8hrs

TUESDAY; Worked with reference and thumbnails. 7hrs

WEDNESDAY: Worked with animation(Old man) 7-8hrs

THURSDAY: Worked with animation(Young confident man) 7hrs

FRIDAY: Worked with final finish on both animation scenes. 5hrs

RESEARCH AND WORK PROCESS

CREATIVE METHODS

When I started on this assignment, I had to find some good references or create the myself, which I ended up doing. I used also a reference of an old man walking, for the old man animation.

I used the bony rig for the main task in the assignment, which also was pre-made, so there was basicly to animate with the controllers and graph-editor to get the finished result.

ANALYSIS

The issue I had to work with on this assignment was to get every animation part as good as I could. I know with myself that I should have started earlier on the animation part in maya to get the finished result I really was looking for. The right hand of the old man character should have been tweaked and worked with in graph-editor, including his head and shoulders. I didn't manage to get that in place before delivery, but I am aware of it, so this will be solved in the upcoming assignments.

DESIGN

This assignment had only the basic design from the bony rig. I choosed also to keep it's original colour.

SELF- EVALUATION

REFLECTION ON FINAL PRODUCT

My opinion on this assignment, is that it was fun! really fun! When we started with the bouncing ball assignment, I felt that I had missed someting important. I failed bigtime, and now I know why. I wasn't even ready to step into animation when we really started to ''smell'' on it before christmas. After this two weeks, I just love it! really love it. It is fun, exiting and there's so much more than just work in front of a computer all day. When we went out to draw sketches last week, I just totaly fell in love with this part of the 3D industry. I'm still most into the 3D modellig and rendering part, but this is a huge experience to take in concideration when it comes to work later on in he future.

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