Fifth and Sixth Sessions

During these two sessions, we used one rig, Floury, to create a walk cycle. I especially enjoyed using this rig as I was able to get a lot of character into the animations using this rig. I enjoyed giving him a lot of character. At this point some of the principles was starting to click with me and I was finding creating animations more and more easy. This was the first animation I was properly satisfied with.

Fourth Session

In this session we practised follow through. This was done using a rabbit-like rig and to practice follow through via the ears. Getting the poses and timing right on this animation was difficult however I feel with a bit more time it would become better. I enjoyed creating the ear movements however.

Third Session

In this session we used a ball and chain to practise the principle of overlapping animation. First we had to rig the model by parenting the ball to the chain and then creating links upwards. This will enable us to move chain link to move all those below. I had difficulty with the timing of this animation , thus why it looks janky, however I feel like the posing went well.

Second Session

In this session, we went about animating a ball bouncing. Through this we used principles such as squash and stretch, as well as timing. We started by making the ball bounce at the appropriate heights and then went on to add squash and stretch and then added the final touch of making it travel over a distance.