October 01, 2006

One frontal walk cycle down!

Go google, yahoo! search, or anything, MANY sane animators FEARS walk cycle. this is just a quotation from other animators, but i feel the same way. furthermore, i'm green in this animation business, and mann doing a walk cycle really really makes me cringe.
I've been up since 3.45 am this morning, up till now, 10.59 pm, the longest hours i've stayed awake since i've been pregnant for d 2nd time. and this morning, i started my experiments on walk cycle, not just a walk cycle, A FRONTAL walk cycle. i did walk cycles in sideviews before, quite easy, but never a frontal! senior animators, yes u can laugh at me and be reminded of who u were when u were an apperentices yourselves. i had to really flip through the Animator's Survival Kit book by Animator Richard Williams to really understand the walk cycle. I painted my character, frame by frame. my 1st experiment sucked. i was frusrated. i went to take a nap for barely 20 mins. handled Jazz, did some other chores before i decided to try again. after berbuka, i did. and here's the result...

yeah i knoe itsa bit rough, but... i'm proud of it! she's Kim, my main character for my Major Project. She's suppose to be an ugly dull girl, who gets mocked all the time by her skoolmates.
to some of you this might be a shitty post, but i'm just sharing my victory with u guys.
moral :: DUN EVER GIVE UP! and i still haf a long way to go for my Major project, I won't give just yet!

6 comments:

Izham Miyake said...

Dear eejay,

3D is a skill you won't be able to gain overnight.

You can do it!

(all night long.. hehe.. if you remember from which movie)

-zaza:o:binxz- said...

ada rupa 3D ke abg izham?? 2D lah tuh!!!

hehe :op~

Izham Miyake said...

hmm

what i mean was, not only 3d la.. i dah ter generalized 3d to all the animation work. like 3d people, 3d artist.. padahal tak buat 3d pun.. but surely they're able to do 3d like a thunder.

well, i'm supposedly to say, it's a skill you won;t be able to master overnight.

so kipidap.. hehe.. (keep it up)

-zaza:o:binxz- said...

yeah i knoe 3D is d in thing and it's awesome if u can really animate 3D, i haf friends who are REALLY REALLY amsters of 3D, and man they are good!

but..

3D jest dun get into me. tak minat sangat. tu pasal i Major in 2D Animations.

p0dracer said...

wahh... tgk walk cycle ni teringat Saturday nite fever.. hehehe.. good job mama binxz

-zaza:o:binxz- said...

faren! apasal la pulak saturday nite feverrrr... ada ropa disco dancing ka? hahah

tapi okla eugene kata ok aritu, cantik. jest dat when i put kat composition, i tak adjust dia nye stopping and pausing, jadik cam moonwalk hehe, but now i know how to do it alhamdulillah...