Tuesday, January 6, 2009

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!