CT6MAJAN - Animation

University of Portsmouth - Animation Yr. 3 - Major Project Animation

Having 3 characters on the screen, almost at all times, was obviously going to be challenging to animate. In order to simplify my work, I used a lot of cycles. The variation of their movements has been achieved with animation layers. 

Many of my references included Youtube videos and tutorials, my own performance in the mirror and reference pose sheets and filmed footage, for the run cycles. 

The final scenes mostly followed the animatic, with only a few exceptions (extra scenes, different camera angles etc.)

While animating, I realized that my rig wasn't complex enough and because of that it was limiting my animation (the hips could not rotate independently, the palm rotation was not blended with the forearm, the shoulders were quite stiff etc.). I did manage to manually compensate for some of those issues, and counteranimate some of the movements, but they are still far from perfect. I also played around with different camera angles and lighting setups in order to make those mistakes less apparent..