The Frist week was the pantomime project where were had to choose from 21 different scenarios. I decided to do the scenario of my Character walking to a vending machine to get a snack and the snack get stuck in the machine. My objective for the animation was to really explore exaggerating poses with my character to achieve good composition and staging.
The first step, was to make thumbnails which helped me plan out my composition, staging and important key poses
Exploratory thumbnails:
Storyboards thumbnails:
Action Breakdown thumbnails:
The next step, I written out a Characterization and Back-story which is and Document of my character development to get a better idea on how he will react is the scenario he's in.
After the process of prepro, I started to actually act out what the character was going to do in the animation. I did this with the help of quicktime, basically I turned on quicktime to record me doing the live reference with someone helping me film. I made there reference videos of my doing different action of my idea for the pantomime. Then i had to choose which out of the three to use as my main reference video.
After Filming the reference videos, I started to animate my scene in different stages:
Blocking:
Second Pass:
Third Pass:
Fourth Pass/Final Pass:
Finally, I finished my final pass of my animation is done after working small details in the animation and get suggestions from my peers and instructors.
