Walk and run with Miss Daisy

We had 2 weeks with  Sydney Paudua to do some quadruped animation (meaning animation 4 legged animals) and it was wonderful. We had to make a walk cycle, runcycle and later combine the two with some performance. I went a little bit cartoony with the run and I had fun doing the simple performance take.

 Walkcycle

Runcycle
 

Transition
 

The Roberto Challenge


I haven't really updated my speedpaints challenges here yet but i want to do it in the future. For now here is a few chosen pics of my progress in the first 2 months of daily painting.
This is the very first try i did: 



And the rest..
I am going to keep doing this, since it's much fun and I have been improving alot since the beginning. If you want, follow us at  http://robertochallenge.tumblr.com/ for some daily speedpaints. 


Animating with Hogan

After Lux we got introduced to Hogan, a charming robotic fellow. Since he is a bit more advanced, we started out with some basic excersizes. I was scared in the beginning but after getting more comfortable with Maya and and figure out graphs so everything here is a mix of experimentation and strict following orders kinda scenario. 

Our Maya introductionteacher Erik Schmidt really tried to emphasy on preformance even though we did basic excersize, which really helped alot and also made us better animators, than just learning a new tool. 


Here I focused on how to study and use video reference in to my own animation. 
The walk and run were strict from a recipe in order to learn the curves in the graph editor and also know the run/walk by heart for later use.

Luxo


We finally moved on to moving a more advanced character, the infamous Luxo.

This was also an introduction to ik and fk rigs so we had both a wallkcycle (not uploaded yet)  and a hop, stop and take scene

I really like this pierce so i went back to it later to polish it up a bit, I tried to experiment the visual with only doing stepped (no generated inbetween's) just to find my own taste.  

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