Category: Maya with George/Ting

On Tuesday with George, we looked into weight shifts. Why it is important to practice it and what goes into a good weight shift. He made us shoot references of ourselves so we can get familiar with the motion

On Friday with Ting we got feedback from our juicebox acting shot as well as golden poses from last week. She loved my juicebox acting shot and only suggested I make the animation snappier in some places. Finally we looked into pose to pose animation and she introduced the assignment we would be submitting the next week.

My golden poses for the week

This blog post is about the anatomy of a walk cycle. A walk cycle is an effective way to describe a character. Every walk style is unique, and the mannerisms shown in a walk cycle often gives insight into the character demeanor, confidence level and much more.

Walk cycles are made up of 4 main poses. The Contact Pose, the Passing Position Pose, the Up Pose and the Down Pose.

Critiquing Weight Shift

Below is my attempt of last week’s weight shift exercise.

Overall a good attempt at a first pass. I was advised to make the poses a little bit more extreme to better show the effect of the weight change, especially when the weight moves to the left leg. I was also advised to make sure the heel leaves the ground before the rest of the foot to give that “peeling off” effect.