Category: FMP

Introduction

This week I started working on the finalizing the story and choosing the rigs for my final major project. My plan is to complete the pre-production so that I can transition to the production phase smoothly.

Choosing Rigs

The character from my story is a primary school student. He is a 9 year old lean and mischievous boy. I want the character to look a bit sharp and cute. Because of the time limitation I cannot model and rig the character myself. So, my only option is to either get the rigs made or buy it online.

Upon searching it online, I realized that I don’t have very limited options for the kind of rig I need. My mentor suggested me to have a look at pro-rigs as the characters fit perfectly for my story.

I feel that the following character fits my story well and the rig looks very flexible.

Finalizing Story

I already have my story planned out into the form of pre-vis but I feel that there are some loopholes and gaps in the story. I discussed the story of the short film with a few of my friends and they gave me some feedbacks about the gaps in the story.

Final Moodboards

I finalized the moodboards for both real and dream sequences.

Introduction

This week is the final week before summer break. We got final feedback from our mentor.

Creature Animation

Here is the final version of the dog walk cycle. It still has some issues to fix which I will do in the coming weeks.

Introduction

I continued working on the dog walk cycle this week.

Dog Walk Cycle

I mainly worked on the feedback I received last week which was mainly around paws. In this iteration I also worked on the head and shoulder movement.

Introduction

This week I selected Corgi’s rig to animate the dog walk cycle.

Walk Cycle

I started animating the walk cycle directly in spline. I took the reference from the thumbnails I drew last week and from The Animation Survival kit.

Following is the animation and the feedback I received on the dog walk cycle.

Introduction

This week we started working on creature walk cycle. We could choose between dog or cat. I am more interested in dog walk cycle. Quadruped walk cycle always look very complicated to me so I am very keen to learn how to animate this walk cycle.

Creature Walk Planning

For any animation exercise, it is always better to record a reference to analyze how the body moves. Here is the reference I chose for the walk cycle to understand the basic fundamentals.

Thumbnails

I did some basic thumbnails for creature walk.

I further took references from Richard William’s dog walk cycle. It helped me a lot to understand the fundamentals of quadruped creature walk.