Animation 102: Week 6: Stopmotion suite: 9/3/18:

Barsheet of sit down stand up.

walking barsheet

In the stopmotion suite I executed the sit down standing up (airshow) exercise, followed by a revisit of the walk exercise. This time I was relying on the bar sheets for my work after realising how difficult it was to follow the reference footage. When doing the walk though I did at times follow some aspects of the reference footage, simply to see which arm moved forward as the left or right legs did as this was a challenging aspect for me in this instance. I moved the rig along but from looking back at the original animations I decided to have the walking stop at the end of the screen instead of walking off screen, as I remembered from 101 this wasn't a good idea. I was still having trouble doing the arm movement in the walk as I was having trouble seeing which arms moved first as the legs moved.


Clearly In future I would need to do a facing walk reference video to get an idea on arm movement to eliminate the stress of this issue.

In terms of the sitting down standing up it seemed a more simple task. I had the movements of the action I wanted to execute on the bar sheet but I also followed the reference video for extra guidance. However one thing I could consider a hindrance would be the lack of a head on the armature to show the character looking up and around. I felt that this was something being taken away from the animation, I may wish to consult with Joe on this matter to see if I could introduce a cube to the rig or a lump of plastercine as the head. Moved the arms in small frames to make them move at a slow enough pace.

I wasn't sure how to end the animation, I was going to have the armature standing in the looking pose but I decided instead to finish with a relaxing standing pose ending the scene. looking back on the animation I possibly would've done some things differently, I would have done a second sitting down standing up animation with a cube as the armatures head to see which one the tutors would prefer and confirm what I need to know. In hindsight looking at the bar sheet and reference video was a logical thing to do in order to do the animation since I could capture the movements and poses more easily.

In conclusion I would think I did the two animations very well, however I feel I still need to improve on the arm movements in the walks, I may do a forward facing walk reference video to get a better idea on the movements and which one comes first in the walk.

In future I shall check with the tutor first on the matter of using a wooden cube or a piece of plastercine as the head of the armature to get a clearer idea on head movements and posing.