I struggled a lot with this one, I think mostly due to failures in the planning stage. But would still love some feedback on how to improve it. The focus for the exercise was on showing weight. Ignore the path of the axe after 85. Due to the constraint set up I will just bake it out and reanimate (appropriate use of reanimate?) it after I polish the body mechanics.
Also @waylow I am trying to do some rigging when I have spare time, and am wondering if you can point me toward a good solution for IK FK matching in Blender.
Thanks for the notes Wayne, and for the pep talk. I did get a little discouraged with this one. I made a pass to try and make some improvements before submitting it. Never really got it to a place where I was satisfied, but we are moving on for now. I always appreciate your help and encouragement. Sorry about your mouse cursor 😀
I figured out the mouse cursor! They added a setting and it is disabled on older files, which I started from your last review file and just updated the video.
Never forget that you can come back to it, or even start it again, or pick a new idea. All of the success and failures are part of your learning.
The biggest thing I see is the floatyness at f13-28
His weight needs to accelerate to get the lift off – and there’s a couple spacing pops.
If you are taking this from reference pay really close attention to the spacing on his cog. Also if the ref is a lighter dancer you will need to adjust the animation.
Blocked out my first acting shot this week. Pretty exciting! Will be working on it for the next 4-5 weeks, so still a long way to go. Let me know what you think.
It is still in block, if that is what you mean by laggy. It’s only showing one image for sets of several frames. Once it’s splined the frames should smoothly interpolate.
-Push the camera in to fill the frame with your character.
-The move at the start and his attitude isn’t clear what’s going on. It might be better to keep him more still (stay around the pose at about 1 second in – the leaning to the left) and make his attitude more warm and friendly on his face.
Well yes, i meant it was far from finished and only the major movements was done. Like a piece of wood that has been carved out to fit a basic shape of the final item, but needs refining and polishing to get the final look.
