For George’s homework weight shift/walk
In this week, we need to use a ball with 2 2-leg rig to show the physics and body moving side by side. When I do the animation, I found that the angle always overrotates until I adjust my action.
When I did the planning, I realized the frame is important, because to be an animator, I never think about the timing and will make the animation “confusing”. The frame should depend on the action speed and others.
The Understanding and Personal Feeling
In the 12 Principles of Animation, anticipation should be more in this moving animation. When the right foot is first time to move up, the body should follow the Principle in this term: K.I.S.S ( KEEP IT SIMPLE STUPID) is means to do the simple thing to the highest quality and highest understanding, so that no squash and stretch would be better and natural.
When the weight shift to the middle position, the gravity is in the middle, so no routate and no side， just in symmetrical. Then, next move to the other side ( right feet keep, left feet up and straight), which looks like a triangle and stable. after that animation switch the gavitay and weigh to the right feet, so the body machanic would be in the right side, and show more anticipation.
After this week’s homework, I understand that the important things in this homework is to focus on the hip and legs of the weight shift(or walk), and the variation in speed between poses or frames.
For Ting’s Post to Post animation
First version:
In this post to post animation, the first version can see lots of problem, When I first made this animation, I didn’t use any video reference, I just based it on how my own body moves and what I imagined. Because of that, the timing and the way the feet float looked really unnatural and uncoordinated.
To be honest, while making this first version, I felt really stuck. I didn’t know where to start or how to adjust things—I was just moving controls mechanically, imagining it in my head. That wasn’t a good way to work.
Then I sent it to my friend Chichi for help. She told me the feet looked so weird, like “one foot was stepping while the other was doing a Michael Jackson move.” So I focused on fixing the feet.
Second version:
It looks much better now, but I still feel like something’s weird，I don’t even know how to fix it or why it feels strange.
This is the first time I feel like: I have no idea. My friend couldn’t spot it either, so now I’ll just have to wait for Ting’s feedback.