Month: December 2024

Content and task:

• Change the blocking to spline

My reflection:

During the week, I had some difficulty converting blocking to spline. For example, I didn’t get the Settings right and the whole animation looked very strange after the conversion.

Settings for blocking:

Settings for spline:

In addition, I had another problem, when I wanted to pace the animation, I selected all the controllers and they were all keyframed, but when I moved the animation was broken. I don’t know why it happened, but the whole body looked twitching and it seemed like some keyframes got mixed up as they moved.

This week is more about reflection and polishing, because my homework needs to be redone. But for the sake of documenting the process, I’ll put it down below

Side view:

As you can see in the video below, the whole movement is stiff and looks like a robot just learning to walk, and this week I still don’t know how to deal with the wobbling of my knees. That’s why the knees are shaking up and down.

Front view:

When I reflected on it, I realized that it was a strange walk, because the knees were turned inward, and ordinary people don’t walk so strangely.

Content and task:

Task 1: Plan and blocking Walk Cycle:

My reference is from the learning materials in this week’s powerpoint. This picture clearly shows the decomposition of walking posture.

What needs attention is the key frame of each foot’s contact with the ground and departure, as well as the position of the legs and the distortion of the knees. And pay attention to the movements of the ball of the foot and the heel at different times.

In addition, the movement of the center of gravity of cog is also very important. Similar to the principle of the movement of a small ball, the motion tail of cog should be undulating from the side, and the shape of an infinity sign from the front.

Blocking of walk cycle:

Side view

Front view

Feedback from teacher:

For side view: Be careful not to step under the ground when the foot touches the ground, and the knee needs to be more bent, for example, when the center of gravity is lowest, the knee should be more bent. Notice how the ball of the foot connects between each pose.

For front view: Notice that the shape of the changing center of gravity is not the shape of a heart, but the shape of infinity.

Task 2: Polishing of Weight Shift and Pose

Feedback from teacher: Make the cog movement curve smooth and adjust the pose when foot contact floor.

My final view of weight shift practice:

Task 1. POSES in Maya showing Silhouette:

Draft and pose in Maya showing silhouette and line of action:

Feedback of sihouette:

My refelction: The whole dynamic posture needs to consider the expression of the animation, for example, the movements of the hand cannot be blocked by the body, otherwise the silhouette will lose information, so the posture of the hand should be adjusted appropriately. The Angle of view of the entire camera is a bit too lateral, requiring 3/4 of the side to correspond to the Angle of reference. On the left foot, consider standing on your heels for better balance.

So I adjust the pose according to the feedback:

Task 2. Blocking of weight shift:

My plan and draft:

For example, when a person takes a step to the side, the weight will remain on the foot in contact with the ground, and until the other foot contacts the ground, the weight will begin to shift. The curve of the whole cog is a radian, not a straight line. For example, in my sketch, the center of gravity will first shift to the bottom left, and then after reaching the lowest point, the center of gravity will slowly rise. translate

Blocking:

In this week, I converted the blocking into spline and received feedback from my teacher. Below are some notes and my revisions.

Feedback:

1.The tail needs to follow the body’s motion trail：

2.The tail only needs to swing up and down once after landing, but I made it swing twice.

So I finally adjust the problems in my work: