My Project

From having a look at the brief i have decided to work with the third year animation students, i believe that as they will need a lot of animation I can do help them and also help myself. there are a total of 73 shots to be animate, obviously there are harder ones than others. i hope that i will be able to participate in the more challenging shots. some of the shots will also have more than one character at a time, allowing the animator to experiment with different walk cycles and body behavior.

I also hope to be able to gain some more experience with working with others in a group, i found that the last project where team work was required i was able to learn loads of others and return the favor by sharing what i knew. when it comes to working with the third years i believe that i can experience this again but in a more professional level, reasons for this is that i will in a way, be working for a client, and the fact that they have more experience in animations than i do and i hope i can learn from them.

Another important reason i would like to work with the third year students is that when the movie is finally finished it will be exhibited at the end of the year, this will allow others to see my work and hopefully get a little recognition. I've never really had the chance to show my fellow students my work, hopefully this will allow them to get an idea of where my skills lay.


from my understanding there will be no walk cycles in the movie, i would have liked to polish up my stills a little more in that area. however, as there are no walk cycles there are a lot more expressional behavior than usual, there is a scene where a gourd is electrocuted and shakes all over the place, i can imagine that this would be a lot harder to animate then a walk cycle. the team chose not to have walk cycles as there isn't enough time to perfect them, i see this as a very realistic choice.