Walk Cycle

Personality Walk Cycle

I looked at some videos on the internet for research into personality walks and watched carefully to see if i could see what type of personality a person has by simply watching them walk.
Here are a few links:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iK4VA_kt86I – military walk

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzyNESycy3E - Runway model walk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKQD2dDk7aw – SpongeBob walk cycle

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wt3tWLMWDXs – business man walk

I also looked at images on the internet to mostly look at key frame or points in different walk cycles to help me position my character's key frames when I animate the personality walk cycle.

 

Poses ( I think It's Dead)

Here are my quick sketch drawings to show the theme "I Think It's Dead)

Here is my final pose to show my character on all fours looking into a clear glass which is upside down to cover/hold a insect inside of it ( not sure if the insect in question is dead or not ?).

Poses (Waiting To Start)

Here are my quick sketch drawings which show the theme "Waiting To Start".

Here is my final pose to show my character sat inside the cinema waiting for the film to start, looking bored and holding some popcorn.

Poses (What's Under There)

 These are my quick sketch drawings to show the theme 'What's Under There' by simply thinking of different position and objects to which the character can look under to match the theme.

 Here is my final Pose shown at two different angles to show the character looking under the table whilst the character is kneeling on the table.

Dancing Animation

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4B_UYYPb-Gk

I took some inspiration for this animation by looking at the position of the artist singing the song which I used to dance my character along too to see how he danced along to the rhythm of the song and how he showed his facial emotions for different parts of the song and the artist general personality been seen through the way he moved. I paused the video a few times and did quick sketches of position he stands in to get a few ideas for the way my character would stand or move.

Lip Sync

This is my lip sync. I used basic movement to not overpower what the character is saying but enough to show what the character is saying is being betrayed with his facial emotions and movement of head and shoulders.

Observational Sketches

These are quick observational drawings I did, looking at different positions of people wherever I was like waiting at bus stops, sitting round university and round a park.

 

Bouncing Ball Animation

This is my storyboard for my bouncing ball animation. My storyboard includes basic animation with a ball including rotation, bouncing and squash & stretch action.