Working From Realistic Reference - Tweaked Animation

Today I carried on tweaking my Charlie Chaplin animation. I had to look at the graph editor to clean up some of the jittery/ quick movements in the previous playblast I uploaded. I'm a little happier with how the animation is coming along, but I still need to wrap my head around the wrist movements in the reference video and the slightly awkward movements in my animation when the character is sliding down the pole.

Chaplin Tweaked Playblast from noah greenhalgh on Vimeo.

Working From Realistic Reference

We've moved on from weightlifting to Charlie Chaplin, and working from a realistic reference. Below is a playblast of some rough animation I did using MooM. I used a clip of Charlie Chaplin as reference. It needs a lot of tweaking and a few more in-between poses to sort out the jittery hands/wrists and the body movements when the character is sliding down the pole.

Charlie Chaplin Rough Animation Playblast from noah greenhalgh on Vimeo.

Cleaned Up Weightlifting Animation

This week I cleaned up my weightlifting animation. I had an issue with the hands last week, they looked very jittery due to adding too many key frames to try and fix the barbell moving in weird directions in MooM's Hand. I discovered that adding more and more key frames is not they way to go.... it actually just made things much worse. So, instead I deleted unnecessary key frames and then cleaned up the animation in the Graph Editor and parented the barbell to the right hand control. After cleaning up and tweaking the poses a little, I'm a lot happier with how the animation looks. Cleaned Up Weightlifting Animation from noah greenhalgh on Vimeo.