Hare Animation Update 04

Hare Animation Update 04

Today I have altered the walk cycle from yesterday to try and fit more into toon animation. Below is my version from yesterday before Brian had looked at it. It is a very muted performance, and one thing that has stuck with me from reading the history of animation is that if a character is feeling sad, then make him look even sadder.

This is my edit done in about an hour. The main things I focused on here was moving his down position even further down, arching his body more and also moving his hips back. This has helped to create more of a sense of his feelings at this point in time. There are some more technical issues with this in terms of the feet and the fingers. These aspects are not high on my issues right now. I am not sure if I will come back after Christmas with a different outlook on my project so I don't want to stress over smaller things when I have gotten what I need from this already.

This, below, is a nice view of his hips. (I will fix the left arm for the final animation). Looking at this now, I could perhaps have more joy moving his head up and down a bit more, to really push his emotions.

One thing I have struggled with in terms of finishing my animation (adding in the wall slide) is that I struggled with bringing the walk cycle into a scene and making everything click. Trying to make the character react to walking into the wall was particularly difficult for me for some reason. I know how I want him to react but getting the rig to do it has proven difficult. Below I attempted the wall slide anyway; I just forgot about getting the character to turn around so his back is up against the wall. So below you can see this attempt. I think if I worked on this properly for a week then I could perhaps get the desired performance but my passion works better for me if I was doing a full short animation I think. I just don't feel the desire to fully complete this animation with the deadline for submissions in



I enjoyed doing the walk cycle but getting to the wall slide, I lost confidence.