Final Character Designs

Well I finally completed the final designs for both the snake and mongoose characters. I decided to give the characters a relatively simple design each due to the humour of the animation and also to make the modelling process simpler and faster so that I can concentrate on the animating. Now I can finally start modelling the characters!

Also in the last lab we had for the Advanced Character Animation, we were assigned a new animation that we had to complete about a rocket. I will post about that soon.

Updated storyboard

Well I updated the storyboard by putting more actions in. Here it is:

I probably would have benefitted putting even more actions in though. The drawings are a bit inconsistent too and that annoys me, but as it is only the storyboard I shouldn't be spending too much time on it. I will be posting the final character designs of the mongoose and the snake very soon so stay tuned.

Storyboard!

Well I have done a storyboard for my animation for the Advanced Character Animation module.

Basically what's happening here is that the mongoose opens a box that is addressed to it. It is actually a trick by the snake, which jumps out to suprise the mongoose. The mongoose knocks out the snake with one punch and the animation ends with the mongoose looking proud of himself. Later on I will add the character designs of both the mongoose and the snake. These designs will be used as references when modelling the characters.

First post, and first animations

This is my first post so first of all welcome. I am currently learning animation in Maya so that I can eventually produce animations of awesome and hopefully get a job, preferably in the video games industry.

Today I managed to complete these two animations and posted them on Youtube. I didn't make the models myself they were provided by the uni's Blackboard. They're pretty simple, but it's important to learn and refine the basics. The first one is supposed to be a light ball and a heavy ball but I really don't like how it turned out at all. I think the lighter ball might be too floaty. The second one is a waving hand, which I think turned out a bit jerky. Any criticism is appreciated.

This is an animation I made in my first year at uni. I really hate the lighting on this but it was my first proper full length animation.