Introduction
This week we worked on creating blocking of our Acting shot. Our main focus was to create blocking for the body first.
Blocking
This was my first blocking pass and I made some mistakes. Upon receiving feedback I got to know that I should add key-poses first and key all the controls. Right now the body parts are keyed separately.
Blocking Revision
After the last feedback, I fixed the blocking. Here is the new blocking pass of the animation
Introduction
This week my focus was to make the 2d VFX of explosion for my animation sequence. For that I watched several reference videos and then created some sketches to get a rough idea. Later on, I painted the explosion frame by frame in photoshop.
Idea Work
Ever since I have watched arcane I always wanted to create a 3D Animation with 2D VFX in it. So, now that I have got a chance I tried to give it a shot. I have watched a lot of reference Youtube videos to help me make the explosion animation.
Reference Videos
Sketches and Animation
I wanted to make a huge explosion which starts as small but then covers all the screen in the end. For that I made rough sketches first and then I made 2d sketch animation for the explosion.
Here is how the animatics look.
After making the 2d sketch animation I put it in my 3d scene to see if it matches the camera and perspective. It looks fine at this moment. Once I will light my 3d scene and color my 2d explosion it will make more sense.
Final Look
After the sketches I added colors in the explosion and that is how it looks now. I will do color changes and compositing later on as well when I will integrate it with the 3d animation scene.