After chosing to proceed with the lift I began to develop my initial block further by creating a simple elephant rig so the animation would instantly make more visual sense as currently all it showed was a pink blob following the character while he pulls on nothing (see lift block video in the previous post).
I decided to keep the elepant rig simple in appearance to match the style of the character rig, while giving it some detail and a few links for the trunk. I also set up controllers to make animating it easier. I then began working on the inbetween poses for the animation as well as working the new elephant rig into the start of the sequence adjusting the trunk links and position to make it work as if the character is pulling on the trunk to drag the toy. I also added some additional animation to the trunk to show follow through movement from the toy being lifted. However, I did decide to leave doing that at this stage as I'd probably need to move the toy body around when I started working on the body shifting during the walk, which was my next task.
Next I'm going to:
- check my motion arcs on the various parts of the body
- do some more work on the walk
- animate the rest of the elephant
- make any needed adjustments after completing the above stages.
And to end, another short film I enjoyed :)
Les Dangereux from Daniel Klug on Vimeo.
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