11 Second Club: January 2017

Debt to Society

January 2017

This month I have entered the 11 Second Club competition. I have mentioned this club in a previous post, this month’s audio is:

Listening to the audio, I planned the shot construction and what character(s) I would animate. I chose to animate the single character as a realistic goal; otherwise I may not have completed the challenge at all.

I chose to animate the male voice because I could see an opportunity for emotion change and responses between the two characters.

From my work I can see that I need to practice more, and refresh my memory on the principles; because I can see that the scene is lacking. It looks rather wooden and plainly see how the sections of the scene are split. To improve this animation I would have overlapping action on the arms, back and head.

Evaluating my work flow, I rushed this month’s challenge because I was eager to complete it unlike November’s challenge. However this lead to complications and I had to go back on myself several times. I know for next time to plan the whole scene first; even animate it on paper then to apply to 3D. I found that working with 3D makes you forget, or makes you lazy, because I did not apply all of the principles making the scene lacking. Planning the scene allows me to incorporate all of the principles and apply them to the model in Maya; with the benefit of tweaking where needed.