I’ve done a lot since my last post. This should catch things up, hopefully.

This week we learned about the importance of planning. We learned different ways to plan and block shots, very cool. To go along, a ball rig was given to us, and we were supposed to plan and animate it bouncing. I used video reference of a basketball, and timed how long each bounce should be. Here’s the planning on paper that resulted:
Sketch for bouncing ball
After that, I was ready to animate. I did 5 passes on this animation, and you can see them here.
Pass 01
Pass 02
Pass 03
Pass 04
Final Pass
I don’t plan to always post ever single little step along the way, but I thought it’d be nice to be able to look back and see my progress on this first assignment.

We also had to pose a character in an excited way. I sketched several possible poses, trying to find one that wasn’t cliche:
excited pose sketches
Here is what I came up with:
excited pose
Yes!!!!

Also, I made slight modifications to last week’s pose. I’m not sure if they helped, but I don’t think they hurt.
Lazy pose revised

That’s a lot in one shot, but it’s what I’ve been up to most of the week. Comments on any of it are more than welcome.