(T3) Week 10: Body Mechanics

Today’s Lesson

4-5 weeks later will do lip-syncing

show Body Mechanics Shot Planning next week

• a motion, a movement
• can shoot video reference/ online references(combine)
  • keep doing it until good takes
• should be detailed
• when see it —> know what’s happening
• eg throwing a snowball
  • excited before throwing —> then getting scared when he get hit

From point A → B

• make it hard create obstacles for the characters
• make it hard for audience to guess what happen next
  • entertaining to watch
    • eg jumping into a pool but ended up slipped and fall
    • Contrast in personality
      • eg killing but take care of flower

**wont be doing blinks

Pantomine:

• exaggeration

Lock the camera in place(at this point, may change later)

• good reference but some are pure body mechanics without personalities
  • need personalities of character

Workflow Checklist

• planning
• blocking
• Journaling
  • note down what Ive done to make sure not changing some key parts

**all of the body parts needs to be keyed together!!!

Anamotolong timing tool

• before making the animation
  • imagine the animation in mind and voice record yourself put it into Maya and keyframe according to a few timing of that

watch things in playblast instead of Maya

Working in sections

Do 1 second a day for animation(Spline)

The most important body movement is head, hand, weist

• lower part of the body is not that essential

if want to use blocking without changing keys into stepped

—> can use spline but use “. ,” to check pose to pose

Progress on my shot

This week, we are asked to complete some planning for a body mechanics shot. I have came up with a few ideas, and relised that I the ideas that I have in mind’s timing is way more longer that the limit and my expectation.

On top of that, I also wanted to continue with my