Week 6 (Week 18)

This week, we got to watch Ethan Hurd (thanks Ethan!) take us through how he would go about completing a shot. He gave some awesome tips about how to move into splined and give some great animation tips for getting in the mind frame for a shot.

For homework, we were to move into a blocking plus phase of the animation. Basically take it from stepped mode and into linear or splined. Also, more breakdowns were needed to make the motion more fluid and add drag and other principles into the shot. Since I put it through Flipbook, all the poses I moved into Maya seemed to work pretty well coming out of stepped mode and into spline. Some things I had to address were his head moving around on the head flip and the speed that he comes out of the recovery from the head flip.