Animation

This lesson we begun Character animation, the character i will be using will be fully rigged. We had a choice of three characters all with similar rigs. I picked a character called 'groggy'. 

I am to animate the character preforming some kind of task, i did a number of sketches in my sketchbook, drawing down ideas. I came to the idea where my character would be pushing a box and then while he would be doing that he would somehow fall over. I drew some stances the character could be in to push to box, like pushing just with his hands or using his whole body to make the box move giving the impression the box is heavy.    

Using the rig to move the character and key framing each movement so i could get the character to progress forward. At first i found it hard to get the animation going especially animating the legs since I've only animated using a rig once before. The more i did the more easier it became, and i got quicker at animating the character.    

After i had got the character moving the box i decided to make him slip over just to make the animation a bit more interesting, and made it a bit more harder to animate.  

I managed to get the character to fall over but its not a seamless fall, due to time i won't get a chance to adjust it. All i have to do is batch render the animation and then edit.  

I managed to get the character to fall over but its not a seamless fall, due to time i won't get a chance to adjust it. All i have to do is batch render the animation and then edit.