Noroff fagskole: CA2 - Character Animation 02

This week at Noroff, I am animating movement and weight into a character.

Time-budget

Reference & Idea development

My first idea was to make the character act drunk. But there was a lot of movement and difficult positions.

Due to time contraints, I made another shorter reference.

New idea

This is the reference footage I decided to use.

All though not as funny, way easier to animate.

These are my thumbnails, showing the biggest differences in movement.

Work

Here is my scene. A character rig (Not made by me), a floor, heavy object and a shotcam.

To summarize the work short, I animated the character rig by moving controllers around.

I used my thumbnails as reference, showing me what frame I should be on and how the character should move throughout the scene.

 My outliner showing everything in the scene.






















                                                 
Here you can see my graphs from the graph editor.

Finished Product

There are some issues with the animation, but I think the overall movement of the character is quite satisfying to watch.

I also made a comparison-video showing the original reference and the animated video.