[YEAR 2] First Attempt Walk Cycles

(HD PLEASE) 

My first go at animation a walk cycle :D I like the female walk but the guy I think has too much arm swing.

Thoughts? :) 

[YEAR 2] NEW Norman Storyboards and Animatic 2

I have just added in a scene of anticipation.. 

[YEAR 2] NEW Norman Storyboards and Animatic

Norman/ The Man has had a hard day at work, he is walking down the town's streets with his umbrella.

The wind is blowing and starts to tug and pull on his umbrella. he is fighting back with it to try and get the umbrella back under control. 

He manages to get in under control, sighs and continues walking until a piece of paper flies into his face.

He removes it looking quite angry, and throws it to the ground.

*says a line that I am currently unsure of*

He takes another step forward and steps in a puddle, he looks down at the ground and then screams in frustration. 

He begins to step his feet in angry until he stamps to hard and falls through the puddle. 

[Year 2] Street Sketch Prop Sketch

I wasnt completely sure how many sketches I needed at this point but I did the basic idea of my street using some buildings from my research and many sketches of bins from my research... I have no clue what bin I like the best :P

[YEAR 2] Research

Location: I decided to look at a location like Etterleur, Delft and Breda, because the buildings have great detail so it would be interesting to model in maya but also have a mixture of modern or traditional buildings.

Props/ Items in the scene: 

Street Lamps: 

 Bins: 

[YEAR 2] Maya - Medieval Door

[YEAR 2] New Idea for Norman Maya Project

The idea has changed so that there is more emotion and a point to the story,

whereas before it would have visually looked good but been overly bland.

Idea: 

Norman/ The Man has had a hard day at work, he is walking down the town's streets with his umbrella.

The wind is blowing and starts to tug and pull on his umbrella. he is fighting back with it to try and get the umbrella back under control. 

He manages to get in under control, sighs and continues walking until a piece of paper flies into his face.

He removes it looking quite angry, and throws it to the ground.

*says a line that I am currently unsure of*

He takes another step forward and steps in a puddle, he looks down at the ground and then screams in frustration. 

He begins to step his feet in angry until he stamps to hard and falls through the puddle. 

Character:

Norman.

Setting: 

Town street, old fashioned buildings.

Motivation: 

To get home and relax.

Obstacles: 

The uncontrollable weather.

Emotion: 

Anger, annoyance, tiredness. 

[YEAR 2] Story Board and Animatic

Idea: 
The scene starts as rainy evening in the city.

The animation starts with 'Norman/the rig' coming out of a building or from walking down the street, either way he is holding a umbrella (and maybe a briefcase/bag), he is looking rather down since its been a hard day at work.

He is in a world of his own until he steps into a puddle and comes back into the moment. He looks down at the puddle he has stepped into. He pauses a moment and then taps his left foot again in the puddle, then repeats until a smile slowly appears on his face.

He then drops the umbrella (and extra item) and run and jumps into many puddles in front of him down the street until he reaches the last puddle.

He jumps into the last puddle and goes all the way through leading on to the next scene. 

[YEAR 2] Maya - Pocket Watch

Here is my attempt at making a pocket watch in maya.

Next time I think I need to have more subdivisions so that when I smoothed the object it would be smoother.

[YEAR 2] -- ANI2025M-Digital Layout and Character Animation -- Idea!!

Year 2!

-ANI2025M-Digital Layout and Character Animation-

Idea: 
The scene starts as rainy evening in the city.

The animation starts with 'Norman/the rig' coming out of a building or from walking down the street, either way he is holding a umbrella (and maybe a briefcase/bag), he is looking rather down since its been a hard day at work.

He is in a world of his own until he steps into a puddle and comes back into the moment. He looks down at the puddle he has stepped into. He pauses a moment and then taps his left foot again in the puddle, then repeats until a smile slowly appears on his face.

He then drops the umbrella (and extra item) and run and jumps into many puddles in front of him down the street until he reaches the last puddle.

He jumps into the last puddle and goes all the way through leading on to the next scene. 

Artist Inspiration/Research: 

Leonid Afremov

I found his work really beautiful in the way he has over emphasized the colours of the lights and how they bounce off the streets, trees and other object.

I think this look would be very hard to translate into Maya but the idea of warm and bright tones could easily be used in the lighting and design of the set for my character.  

 

Monet

I, again was attracted to Monet's use of warm tones that I would like to include for my scene but these are more 'realistic' compared to Afremov's pieces above. 

-NeonSkulz Intro Finished-

I have finally finished the animation of Neonskulz :) 

I am pretty pleased and it looks great in the project it is being used on!

You can see it on NeonSkulz youtube here: LINK!

Also here are some mini add-ons that have my drawings included I thought I would show off here and to make this post longer! :P 

Thanks for looking!

Emma :3