Senior Portfolio Spring Week 11

Senior Portfolio Post 11

4/18/19

This week I've taken a step back from animating Lego-builds and characters in order to focus efforts on other projects.  Priorities have taken a bit of my attention away from portfolio work.  I have instead devoted this week to working on my 495 Advanced Production character animations.  I have moved on from the Happy personality set and am now in progress working on the Nervous personality.  So far, four of the seven animations in the set have been blocked out and made into a presentable form.  These are the same for each personality, so each action should feel unique from one set to another.  Here are the walk, idle, sit down, and stand up block-out animations.

https://youtu.be/qmavVUmEVEQ


https://youtu.be/BOr0H4h81AE


https://youtu.be/62mHqrvKSAM


https://youtu.be/8-Wz-9bw4OI



In addition to the character animations, the time leftover for work on personal projects I used to instead start putting my newly learned rigging skills to use.  I am currently refining previous rigs to have a much more sophisticated and clean product. Some are old, like the mech and figures, while others will be new testing grounds.  Now that I have a bit more knowledge of the subject, I will be able to animate faster, more efficiently, and perhaps be able to better teach others how it is all coming together.  While none are complete just yet, I have a screenshot of a larger action figure which will utilize an IK biped-style rig.