So another week and 2 more good animation exercises for the show reel. After we had a master class he made it aparntly that walk cycles are pretty boring even if its a quadruped or your new to animation. Its always beter to have the character walking to an object or in some way show how it can be used (unless its games in which case cycles are usualy fine).
So the first excersize was just to have the character pick up a coin. Sounds simple but we are getting into acting now, so the body mechanics are pretty apparent but it provides lots of differnt ways to make yours a little more personalisd if you can put emotion into the character. So how the character reacts when he see the coin, or after hes picked it up, Nervous? happy? sneaky? confident? regretfull? lots of differnt paths to be taken.
The next one is all about how characters act to each other. Its basically 2 people on a bench, they are the only guidlines, one person can already be sitting and another joins, or how ever you want it. Then show some kind of interaction and how the characters play off to each other. For instance a well dressed man reading the news paper gets joined by a young teenager listening to loud heavy metal. Or a young girl who has a crush on a guy, or visa versa. This one can be completly unique, after watching a few myself we wrote down plenty of diffent endings that could have happend to each of the stories, i expect mine to last about 8 seconds.
Looking forward to uploading my video soon and see what you guys think.
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