Week Two

Week two is going great. There is still not too, too much work being assigned but enough to keep me busy. I’m happy I have some extra time because it gives me a chance to get some personal projects done.

This week we talked about character animation. Posing a character in such a way that it is easy to understand quickly and easily. One of the most stressed things that our teacher, whose name is Dave West by the way, is that you should be able to see a silhouette of the character and understand what is going on. There is a picture below as an example.

He had us pose a simple character in 6 different positions and also gave us 6 different emotions that we would have to make the character act out. Now the character doesn’t have any facial features so we can only sure the body and its parts; legs, arms, hands, fingers, head, etc.

Here are a few shots that I did. The silhouette is on the left and the shaded on the right. See if you can guess what it is... anger, and a gymnast.