lowman animation - need advice

[nemirc]

do you happen to have a link? :shrug:

[mttjss]

it's right in my signature below....or here (http://mttjss.tripod.com/my3d/) ?!@#

[petertan]

Hi there,

I think that animation piece has too few poses to actually get the timing right, or to get any critiques really. I also saw your bouncing ball animation. The ball shouldn't be squashing in mid-air, it should be squashing on impact or maybe just a frame before it gets into contact with the ground.

-pete-

[mttjss]

petertan - thanks. The lowman is just the first rough poses to get the overall "feel" of the animation. Just someone sitting on a stool - sees someone come in - acts cool and falls of the stool.

I am trying to get the feel for character animation.

The bouncing ball was one of the first animations I did a while back.

I'll work some more on the poses tonight and update this post.

[pollywoggles]

hey mttjss,


looking good so far. A few suggestions,

for the first pose, the left leg isn't working for me, with the camera angle it looks like his torso is connected to his knee. If you offset the foot a little more, I think it would be more interesting. He's also sitting up pretty straight. It might look better to curve the back more.

The third pose -- you might also want to offset the arms and legs more -- it sort of feels like you're twinning. The silhouette, with the legs and arms so tight to the body is not really reading for me.

The forth pose (first one where he's flying back) -- the left hand is lost behind the torso -- I think it would really help the piece if it was flying more forward. It also looks like he is intentionally throwing himself backward -- as his weight continues toward the direction that he shifted -- in my reference footage of me falling backward, it seems that, if falling backward was an accident, the body would naturally try to throw as much of itself foward, to try centering its gravity to avoid tipping over (i.e. legs, arms, head, even shoulders and upper torso, thrusting the opposite direction of the backward momentum).

He's in a very stable, straight-back position, then he's flying backwards -- there's some weight shift pose that's missing.

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