For the last tasks of the paperwork rotation I had to create a walk cycle. For this I had to mainly focus on the transfer of weight as the character makes each step as well as the overall movement of a character taking a step. With this in mind, whilst making this animation I wanted to further express the figure stepping on the ground and pushing their body up as well as the swing of the arms. What I did well I feel is the looseness of the body as the figure takes the two steps with a few frames building up the the impact of the figure as the step up and down. What I would have done differently is add a small feature to them such as a hat or hair style to give them a bit more personality visually and whilst this task was only meant to focus on the movement I feel that adding a few features could have aided in selling the casual walk more to the viewer.
For the second part of task three I had to create a simple design to not only move their head from left to right I also had to include a secondary action which would follow up the main animation. For this I made a simple cat head with large sections of fluffy fur on its cheeks, the main action being the cat turning to the their left with the secondary action which would essentially ‘drag’ behind being the fur swaying as the head turns.
In my breakdown of how I wanted the animation to be like I first planted where I would want each action to end, the head turning ending around frame 17 with the fur movement following ending around frame 25. Doing this I was able to creating small ideas for what each frame would be like with a bit of drag as the face turns to the other direction. What I feel is successful of this task would be the main and secondary action which was able to add to the idea of the cat turning their head with their expression at the end looking almost surprised at something off-screen, I was able to add a bit of personality to the cat as they turn to the other direction which is important as other than visually the viewer has no other information regarding the cat so this is able to communicate a style to them. What I would have done differently would be to go over sections of the animation to make the cat look consistent as the turn from the first frame to the last frame the cat looks different which can be jarring and lessen the impact of the cat turning as they look different when compared. As well as this I would have changed the expression of the first frame to add the idea of the cat being surprised at something off-screen, maybe they start of sad and and by the end as they turn they’re excited or pleased? I feel that this would have added a bit more character to the cat other than them ending of surprised but a build up to it as they turn to sell the imagery of them actually being surprised to the viewer.
Overall my experience during this paperwork animation rotation was a mainly positive one. I had the opportunity to mainly focus on the movement of an object or character and explore real life movement to influence the actions within the work such as an arm moving or ball bouncing which focused on the fundamentals of movement in animation.