Blocking fun

I decided to make take my blocking to the next level. I am adding a lot more detail to it.

By this I mean getting ride of the posyness. What I am trying to do is add more ease ins, more ease outs, and more overlapping action in my blocking.

Also instead of just holding a pose, and keeping it there, with my new shot since he is moving around a lot, i'm having him hold a pose and transferring his weight with it aswell. Like his arms will be the same, but his hips will be moving in one direction. And I am also trying to make sure that when he hit a pose, its not all at once.

Like have his hips there, then his arms follow for example.

On a side note, its tough animating on a nice day! So much stuff to do outside like friz, longboarding. Sometimes I wish I still had my lappy so I can take it outside and animate in my backyard or somewhere else than my room.

Geesh

Whoa I haven't updated for a while. A lot of things are happening in my life. Like work, friends, hanging out with one special person, and animation duuuh.

Got a dialogue shot done but I didn't really like it that much. Because..I didn't plan it out enough. Man I need these shots to be alive!

One thing I realized that i need to fix is my pose to posyness. I need to add more secondary action to make the character more alive and not to frozen. Also it adds some personality. Right now to me its hitting the beats. But I want to add more. I want this character to breathe and live like me.

Other than that i'm checking the Animation Mentor website everyday to see when its my lucky day to apply ha.

Experimenting with second pass of inbetweening

So I am still animating the super hero, but this time its more blocked in. I see a pose from one point to another. Sure I could easily just add a pose inbetween it to make it smoother, but it would be a static pose. Like from point A to point B.

Right now I'm experimenting on how to get to point B in a more different way. Because if i want to get to one point to another, why do inbetweens? Because the computer can do that. So I tried to make it more cartoony, and added stuff inbetween "normal actions"

Like my guy wants to press down on a button. Instead of him just lifting his hand and pressing the button. What I did was i made his whole body go with it. But not only that. I make his body dip down, with his arm following, and kinda does a swirly thing then he is in the pose to anticipate the pressing of the button. then walla he presses the button.

Try it sometimes! It is fun! Makes the animation more interesting! Well I think it does anyways haha.

But I need to make sure not to over do it. So I'm just applying to the actions and the person personality.

And if you look at horton hear's a who...They do that a lot! Instead of like racing to get somewhere in a straight line. The animators make them swirl!