In this shot, I tried to increase the viewer’s sense of immersion by having the character as close to the camera as Ekko is. She spins around in front of the camera and the fly machine is very close to the camera. But in fact, the character’s actions lacked logic, as if she was acting knowing the camera’s point of view.
Also because of the need to get to the camera for the flying machine, the character’s lower body had to be very close to the camera, which makes the scene a little awkward. And because it’s too close to the camera, a few frames get blocked. But the main problem is still that one of her spinning behaviours in front of the camera looks rather strange.
So George suggest me can shot in the begging when the character face to the camera, so she will not turn around, just follow the motion trail looks like below:
Also, there are speed issues. For example, when the police car and the character are about to collide, both sides slow down. George suggested that I could keep the police car from slowing down and make everything happen fast. I plan to adjust the speed this week.
So I adjust it like this:
I tried to make the character perform a spiral rotation. I adjusted some keyframes and curves, removing unnecessary keyframes so that the overall animation looks smoother than before.
Moreover, George suggested that I modify the design of the flying machine to be in the shape of a skateboard with some larger planes. That way the character’s lower body can come sideways without having to keep moving horizontally all the time. When the lower body is always facing forward but the upper body is turned sideways, the movement can be a little strange.
The third problem is that the character decelerates for a while after getting out of the way of the police car, and then doesn’t continue to fly in the same spiral direction as before. So I need to get to the bottom of this.
The difficulty with this problem is that the camera is moving at the same time to avoid the character being too small a proportion of the screen. However, when the character and the camera are moving at the same time, cranking out the proper motion trail in normal view doesn’t make the character’s position in the current camera correct. This is because both sides are making coordinate changes. I think I’ll spend some time on this part to make it look normal in camera view.
Also, the speed problem still exits. Before I followed the fast-slow-fast principle, which was simpler and rougher to deal with. After George wrote the notes for me, everything became intuitive. The changes in speed are not averaged over a whole shot, but are based on the character’s trajectory.
So, I adjust this shot: