Friday 25 February 2011

Movie C

Stylised Walk Cycle with character overlay - Sneak




Here I tried to demonstrate someone sneaking, as if they were trying to avoid being seen and doing something mischievious. I used the basic puppet and After Effects to create an initial cycle and then when I was happy I did a character overlay on top using Photoshop. I then imported the .jpeg sequence back into After Effects and rendered it out with a table. I used videos from youtube for inspiration.
I included pauses in the cycle to slow down the movement and stretched one cycle to just over 2 seconds rather than the 1 second in the other cycles. This was to make the movement seem more calculated and careful.
Basic puppet sneak cycle which I drew over:


 

Thursday 24 February 2011

Sneak walk cycle

59 individual layers used as the basis for the sneak cycle
Finished sneak cycle with simple background





Wednesday 23 February 2011

Muybridge animal rotoscope

Part of assignment was to rotoscope some Muybridge images to create an animation.
It was really interesting to see how much the cat stretched and squashed during the leaps so I tried to use the colours to emphasise this.

Monday 21 February 2011

Run cycle using puppet

This is the run cycle I submitted using the same puppet and After Effects again.


The majority of frames were hand-created, there is very little AE in-betweening as I feel this makes for a  more realistic movement.

Sunday 20 February 2011

Walk cycle using puppet

Walk cycle using a puppet in After Effects. This was a lot easier than hand drawing each frame but did not allow as much freedom and flexibility of the limbs - neck and foot movement especially. Overall I'm very pleased with the movement though perhaps the strides are quite wide.




Rendered out as Quicktime movie.

Monday 7 February 2011

Hand-drawn walk cycle test 1

First version of walk cycle which I completed over the weekend. Its made up of 25 individual frames with frame 1 and 25 being identical copies so that it can be looped when finished. Needs some sorting out in the crossover stage as the frames are a bit jumpy I feel.


This cycle along with three other interpretations is due on 28th Feb eek. Must keep going.

UPDATE:
The walk cycle when I 'finished' it. In the end I decided to submit the puppeted walk cycle over this hand-drawn one (only one was allowed) as though I spent a lot (a lot) of time on this I just couldn't get it to look smooth enough and jitter-free for my liking. For a first attempt I am sort of proud of it but it shows how much more practice I need...