Category: Maya

This is a planning and analysis for body mechanics.

Body Mechanics Blocking

Body Mechanics Stepped Motion

Body Mechanics Spline Motion

Hand Pose

Expressive Hand Pose

Walk Cycle Animation

This is a pose to pose motion. Especially, From Afraid Pose to Angry Pose.

This is a Weight Shift animation planning and animated motion.

This week, I tried to create poses using a complex body model. As a result, I struggled to adjust each bone and understand the functions properly. Recently, I have been thinking a lot about body expression, because these characters don’t have facial features, so it’s essential to show emotion only through body gestures.

In addition to this, I learned about IK and FK bones. However, I still can’t use them appropriately, so I would like to continue learning through self-study.

In this project, I created the juice box acting in the following the plan and storyboard.
This image is a plan for figure out the time and space each movement of juice box. Also, I focused on the story, which is fascinated with viewer.
But looking back the submitted the animation, it was boring and not well to convey my story to viewers. After the class, I asked the teacher “why the animation is not funny so much”. And then, during the conversation, I realised that the reaction and variations in tempo have a strong relationship to express the emotion and attract with viewers into my animation. So next time, I will be eager to explore the reaction and tempo more carefully, also, I would like to create the more fascinated one. 

<Plan for Time & Space>

<Storyboard>

<Submitted the first version as a juice box acting animation>

This is a plan for my ball and tail animation. In particular, I drew images to show the timing, spacing, and movement. During this task, I focused on understanding how the tail should move. Looking back, I thought the ball and tail looked similar to a squirrel. This animal is characterized by light weight and quick movement, so I tried to incorporate those features into my motion.

However, through my teacher’s feedback, I realized that the tail movement looked a bit unnatural compared to a real animal. In particular, the motion lacked the flexibility and suppleness, which made it seem less realistic.

Furthermore, after watching the tips video on Discord, I realized that I need to use the Graph Editor more effectively. I also believe that even if I think my motion looks good, it might not good work from other perspectives. Therefore, I will consider objective feedback regularly.

<Plan for Time & Space & Movement>

<The first version Ball & Tail motion>

<Fixed Ball & Tail Motion>

This is a sketch plan for Juice box animation. Especially, I wrote two graphs here like Full of Juice box and Empty Juice box. In terms of this sketch plan, I focused on the timing and space to express each material and weigh. Also, through this plan, I realised that heavy version is more smaller space each frame than light version. Furthermore, movement is also different between heavy one and light one. For example, heavy one is just bounce small only once. On the other hand, light one is three times bounce and movement is also big.

This is a plan for pendulum animation.

This is a Pendulum motion before I receive the feedback from teacher. I focused on the gravity and speed in this project.