CGTalk - Need Comments!!!

yamahoto

03-09-2005, 09:27 PM

Hi guys! I'm pretty new here. I'm a student in Quebec, Canada in a 2D/3D animation school and I wanted to have some comments on this animation I created for an exam. (took about 2h30 to create) (remember I'm really new to animation)

http://www.dufourcg.com/wip/exam_anim.exe (2 megs, high quality, BINK .exe format!)

Thanks in advance guys. Looking forward to be more active in this forum! :)

Totoro

03-09-2005, 11:47 PM

Hey yamahoto,

It's a nice start. But I think you should change some things:
He's got a relax run and his spine is a bit to straight, maybe you could have his upper body leaning a bit forward. Your character is a bit stiff right now, he doesn't have any sidewards movements. You could try and tilt his hips and rotate his shoulders during the run. His hands are just flapping along his body, in reality when people run the arms and hands go in front of the body.

The kick could aslo be exaggerated, his leg is just going in one straight line after he kicks the ball. Try rotate his hips, this makes it more dynamic and it gives you a feeling that he's really kicking instead of just bending his leg to kick a ball. Have his arms swinging forwards and rotate his waist.
I think a good reference is to watch a clip where a penalty kick is taken.
Keep up the good work!

yamahoto

03-11-2005, 07:23 PM

Thanks for the comments big! You rock! I'll work on it!!!

Thanks again!!

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