Challenge #1: Day 46

Walk Cycle Update:

Today I finished with some additional modifications to the walk such as animating the tail and provide a facial expression. Also, I do a pass on the back legs to be sure that the arc is well spaced.

I will upload the animation to social media to ask for feedback but I'm feeling that I can finish with the walk cycle very soon and include the walk cycle and the run cycle to my demo reel (to have quadruped animation on my reel for now) and continue working on the sequence on my free time.

So the next step will be polish the little things of the walk cycle and ask for feedback for the run cycle (I would say that my deadline to stop tweaking things will be until Day 51). Address the notes on my spare time, and finally start doing the transition from walk to run in one maya file by combining both animations into one scene.

Walk Cycle Polish Pass:

Final Blocking: 3 Hours & 20 Minutes

Final Polish: 16 Hours & 06 Minutes

Total Time: 19 Hours & 26 Minutes

Intro to Animation Journal

In this blog I will be posting work in progress of animations, life drawing and other pieces of art work that I develop in my time to keep track of my progress as an animator, artist and filmmaker. This will be my personal space for self-critique and improvement in which I will push my skills beyond my own limits.

I’m a 3d animator who admire the work of the traditional animators, like The Nine Old Men, in the early animation days and I wish that I can understand animation like they do and explore new ways to entertain audiences with animation. I end this short introduction by saying two phrases that have push me and motivate me since I decided to be a character animator 5 years ago:

“If you can dream it, you can do it” - Walt Disney

“Art challenges technology, but technology inspires art” - John Lasseter

(The following posts will be re-posted of my original Animation Journal blog on Tumblr, which started on May 28th of this year)