Now that I knew what I wanted to animate, the next step was to jump into Maya! My peer buddy Lorenzo was a HUGE help this week and taught my some cool tricks to get my animation looking the way that I wanted it to!
I was pretty happy with how this turned out! Ray, my mentor, pointed out a few things to work on, mainly making sure that the tail part of the pendulum was never straight, to adjust some spacing issues, and to make sure my arcs were good.
The second part of the assignment was to do another pose, this time focusing on devastation. Now honestly I had a really hard time with this pose. I wanted something that showed devastation that wasn't cliche, not an easy task. I did a ton of sketches and tried a few of them out with Stu in Maya, but none of them felt right. Finally I came up with an idea like 5 hours before it was due and went with it. Here are my sketches!
So as you can see, the pose I went with had Stu clutching something in his arms. How about I just show you the final image.
I ended up having my pose set up so it looked like Stu had hit a squirrel with his car and was devastated at what happened. Ray suggested that to make this pose read more as devastated, rather than just sad, I should have Stu's head back and have him sitting on his legs.
Well I think that's everything! Oh before I forget, if you want to download that Squirrel rig I used you can! Animation Mentor has two rigs free for you to download (just make sure you credit the school)! You can find them both here!
As always enjoy!
~Josh
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