Week 3 - Solid Posing, Timing, and Functional Breakdowns

 

 

In today's lesson, we learnt about Timing and solid posing, which was interesting and helpful as I was able to enhance my technique in animating. As a previous animator, I would always struggle with timing and moving to look realistic. In this lesson we turned on the infinity animation, to repeat the cycle. Afterwards, we started adjusting the distance between each keyframe. This is to focus on the speed and judge how fast or slow the character should move. I experimented with different techniques which I should have recorded. with the experimentation, I was able to see the difference in timing and spacing. For example, one had slower timing making the character look like he is struggling to do a push-up, Another example was having faster timing making the character look confident in working out. I was then introduced to Tangent stepped and Tangent Automatic, which I would normally ignore when animating. However, using this helped a lot in animating as I used "stepped" to focus on posing and the auto to focus more on the timing. Using this I have seen that animating was easier? However, time-consuming as I seemed to get carried away by focusing on every small detail. 

In the video, above you can see that I played with the timing and spacing, by making the character slow down in the beginning and faster at the end, thus making him look like he is struggling. Thus I would tackle this issue by working fast or timing myself to pose faster.

In conclusion, I had fun working on this as I was introduced to something I ignored and found useful at the end. What I would do next time is work more on posing faster. I would also learn more about animation graph editor as that helped a lot in smoothing the movement.