Post 10

The final task was to create an animation ispired by an olympic sport. With some practice now in animation with all the tasks before this one I felt more confident.

I started by looking at many different reference videos for the sport I chose to animate, weight lifting. There was luckily a lot of helpful resources out on the internet which helped speed up the animation progress alone.

The video below shows the animation in its final form.

Post 9

Like with the obstacle course task a couple weeks back, we have been given another optional task, which was this week a lip sync.
I thought this would be interesting to try out and sounded fun so I gave this task a go.

I chose to do a line from the 90s batman movie from the joker which was "wait till they get a load of me".
It was short and also had an oppertunity to add emotion using max's face manipulation.

I picked up this quiet quick and was able to complete the task in a short amount of time.

The video below shows the final lip sync animation.

Post 8

This week we was given a task to create a Jump animation using the same max chartacter in maya. This innioally felt very daunting as I hadnt had much practice animating anything more than a ball before this. Luckily I was able to find some helpful tutorials on the internet to help get me through this trouble and with a couple of tests to get in the swing of things, I was able to create a decent jump animation.

The video below shows the animation I created, which took me around 2-3 hours to complete.
I could have possibly done it quicker if I knew what I was doing more but because of this disadvantage it took longer than expected.
Still though I am happy with the outcome of the animation.