Neil's advice

Today Neil had a look through my stepped version of my animation. He looked futher into the reaction part of the animation, where the mum slams throu the door and shocks Roy.

I originaly had Roy do a large reactin where he bursts out backwards. Neil thought that a more subttle approach would work nicer. The following is a few frames nil drew to demonstrate how the reaction should go. We thought this type of reaction would suit his type of character better.

Animation progression post 4

Fromative assessment

I wasn't very confident going into this formative as I would liked to have got more animation together and complete, to get more reactions and to get further along my stage of animation.

Through showing my latest animation it became clear that both Neil, and Peter thought that my technique of animation was very different and was harder to see what the fnal product would look like. They thought the animation was far too robotic and even.

I do agree with that in many respects, my only argument was that although that is my style I have used previously that degree of animation was not finalised in any way. I tend to animte everything straight off using splines. I put the key poses and breakdowns in that way and then go through adding in any drag etc following that. I do think my style usualy works, woever the type of animation I have been subject to through my freelance jobs, have required quick and animation that is less demanding, so that was the best way for me to do those at the time. I have always however wanted to try the "proper" method of animation, just the situation hasn't occured for me to properly get into learning the graph editor properly and getting used to working on the stepped key animation.

From this feedback I am definately going to work on using the stepped method, and use the graph editor to follow this way of animation. It may take me a little while to adapt but in the long run this is how people in the industry operate so it's best to learn and adapt now before finnishing uni.

All in all though they both liked my key poses and the general idea of my animation, it's just a case of working to the new guidelines and using the new method to get it looking nicer.

Animation progression post 3

Animation progression post 2

Animation progression post 1

Begginning my fisrt scene of animation

I have now finally come to the stage where I can animate. It is a shame it has taken so long to get to the part of the project i want to do, but now I can finally make an impact in the group.

Video 1

First of all I started to get Roy's basic shuffling motion on the saucepan to test the rig and to find an easy way to begin.

Video 2

Next I began the movement of how Roy would sniff his food in the saucepan

Video 3

Finally today I got in the motion of Roy sniffing the food.

Reference for my first animation scene

coocoo clock fo rthe wall

I have been begining to create a coocoo clock for  the wall of the house, I have only got to this stage because it's now not going to be in the scene, so I'll move onto something else now.

More Kitchen Models

As I am taking it to myself to build a basic Kitchen I have decided to model some more items to fill it up.

Large cooking pot for the hob

Decorative pots for the shelves

Knife block for the Kitchen side

Various wooden spoons to hand from the shelves

Teapot

I just created this simple teapot for the scene, I just wanted to make it a bit more unusual so played around with the shape and moved the spout low down.

Decorative jar

Kitchen update 2

Plate stack for one of the shelves

Kitchen modelling post2

Tap model

For some reason this was simple but my favourite model. So simple but I like it.