3D Character Animation Project

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  1. What steps of the project have you completed? I have completed the part 1 of Animation Research and Animation Planning.
  2. Which steps of the project do you need to still complete/add more to? I need to complete a 2D/3D animation practice by creating a range of tasks and scan the storyboard for my animation plan.
  3. What grade are you aiming for? I am aiming for a Merit or, more ambitiously, a Distinction.
  4. Looking at the table, what areas do you need to work on to meet that grade? (e.g. In order to get a merit for my Animation project by the end of project/next week I need to ….) I need to complete my animation research, my animation sketches, a 2D/3D animation practice and evaluation to get at least a merit or a distinction.
3dwalkcycle
Screenshot of an animation walk cycle I made in Maya inspired by the image plane inside the scene.
  1. My animation was quite effective in telling my story because it shows a person sitting down. I could improve my animation by making it more expressive and entertaining.
  2. I applied the following principles of animation: anticipation, arcs, staging and pose to pose (automatically generated by Autodesk Maya), along with follow through and overlapping action. I thought I did quite well with these principles but I wish I could had added other principles such as my favourites exaggeration and squash and stretch and include more overlapping action to make it more realistic.
  3. I could have used the graph to make the movement smoother and add more movement such as walking to make it longer.  Also, I should have moved the chair so that it actually touches the mat and not float as you can see in the published video.

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