DigitalDisciple's Work

[NathanHibberdCATK]

For a standard turn around I think the timing and poses are good, but there seems to be a problem with the overall motion. I'm not sure how you approached doing this but I get the impression that you may have set too many keys, and they are being hit too hard, which if I'm right would be very difficult to smooth out due to the number of keys.

My suggestion is to start again and key only the major poses, having only enough keyframes to hit all the extremes. That way things will be nice and simple to work out in the fCurve editor(or graph editor, depending on what program you're using). Then you can try to get the right motion using the curves and only make more keyframes if you really have to to hit a certain position. Hopefully that way you won't have that sort of jerkyness that is there now.

Of course I may be wrong about the process you're using, in which case my solution may not help. But considering the simplicity of your assignment, it couldn't hurt you too much to give different it a try. (In fact, that can work as a general rule. Whenever you're taking the time to learn animation you should try all the different techniques you can to see what works best)

[NicholasHarrell]

i think it looks good. Other than it being a little choppy, i would change that very last step he takes. It looks like the foot is going straight forward, you might think think about just moving it to the side. Just a thought.

[DigitalDisciple]

Thank you very much Nathan. I really appreciate the feedback. I'll work on trying your approach in the next assignment since I don't think I'll have time to redo the turn around. I'll be posting my assignments here, and I'd appreciate your feedback in the future.

Thanks!

-john

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