Week 11 - More Polishing

Week 10 - Polishing

Week 9 - Splining Disaster

This piece needs a lot of work...

Week 8 - Blocking new Stuff

Week 7 - Polishing Dog Walk and Planning next Animation

 

Pre-Final Dog Vanilla Walk

Week 6 - Weight in four legged Walks

poses "dogs playing":

walk splined:

Week 5 - Blocking a Vanilla Dog Walk

again, two sloan poses "in motion"

my mentors critique for the left pose was:
- bring the frontleft leg down, like this it looks like it's diving

he liked the right pose but said, that the left backleg has to be more dog - z-shaped


now: the vanilla blocking:

 

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i revised it according to the mentor critiques

- tone down side to side shifting
- bring front legs more together
- make shape of legs clearer
- when front legs reaching forward, make them reach more forward
- when front legs are kicking off, bring them not so much forward
- take care of the hip-pop that occures in front view


here is the new blocking:

 

to-dos in this version:
- feet are intersecting. to stop that, bring the back legs outside the front legs
- elbows are sticking out too much. bring the pole vector for the elbows in.
- front leg is reaching out too far forward, tone this down a little

THEN: HAPPY SPLINING :D

Week 4 - Planning a dogs walk

This was a relaxing week.. just planning and posing

here is my planning for the dog walk:

here some poses:

11 & 13 on sloan rig:

Week 3 - Vanilla Walk Splining

The new poses: Stella in motion :D

Again...

And: the splined Vanilla Walk:

 

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In week 4 we start with quadruped walks, yeah!

Meet Sloan: 

Week 2 - Full Body Walks Part 2

This weeks assignment was to do the planning and blocking of stellas vanilla or character walk. I decided to do a Vanilla.

 

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Comments from my Mentor:

- Tone down the Ponytails

- Tone down the side-to-side shifting

- The knees are pointing out too much

- Nice work :)

Week 1 - Full Body Walks Part 1

Yay, we're working with Stella, from now on :D

The assignment was to create two dynamic poses, that show movement.

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Critique from my new mentor:

Sketches are good, on the left pose with the Bo I should drop the front elbow down and straighten the back leg.

On the pose with the Snowboard I should turn the hips to an other angle then the soulders are to create a more interesting pose and the screen left knee doesn't read, so I have to turn the leg.

Aaand lifting the shoulder of course:

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FINAL POSE