Uppercut!

For this week's Morpheus pose, I decided to go with a good old fashioned uppercut. I tried something new with this pose - I curved the arms and legs. It's subtle, but I think it really improves the pose and strengthens the line of action.

I kind of wanted to copy in another Morpheus character to be the one receiving the uppercut, but I decided against it. Better to focus on a single pose for now.

Dino!

I have to say, I'm a little relieved to be animating something that's not a ball. I understand the importance of perfecting the ball bounce (and I'm actually very grateful we're spending so much time on it), but it's nice to take a break and animate a real character! The Dino's rig is extremely simple as well, very fun to animate.

Here's my first mid-week blocking pass. I haven't blocked out the whole thing yet. I'm going to have him jump to the final platform, lose his balance, and fall down to the ground.

Catch up time...

I'm a little bit behind this week. I've been pretty busy the last few days and as such have missed a mid-week deadline and will miss tomorrow's first pass deadline for Assignment 3 (unless I get really lucky tomorrow morning and have time to work on it!). I'll be spending this weekend catching up.

I have, however, done this week's Morpheus pose. I at first posed him with both feet flat on the ground, but I thought that was a little bit boring. So then I realized that sometimes when you're lifting something, you'll use one of your legs to support it for a bit until you can get a better grip on it. I think that resulted in a much more dynamic pose.

Squash & Stretch

I have to admit, I like squash and stretch. So much so that I over-did it a little bit! I followed the critique and reduced the squash and stretch for the first week, but just for fun, I think I'll post the original one with over-the-top squash and stretch. I just think it has a pretty neat whimsical feel to it. Though, I did somehow miss the "zero stretch" frames at the peak of some of the jumps, so that part of it doesn't look too great.