Bowling Ball Bounce

A sneaky animation...

I have been thinking about developing a good characterised walk to accompany my standard walk cycle. I feel that the latter is at a good level and therefore have a little time to create a more entertaining walk. I wanted to try a sneak based on Richard Williams principles and I really like how this has come out. Though I stuck mostly to the aforementioned's guidelines, I found that a little head turn gave a greater sense of worry.

Tennis Ball Bounce

Some ace development...

The development of my tennis ball bounce.



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Shuttlecock Bounce

A fancy looking walk...

Working in the tram lines...

Development of my shuttlecock bounce (?) as so far.



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Striking developments...

Here are some videos showing the progression of my bowling ball animation so far.


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Lifting it further...

Here I have continued with the "cartoony" acting piece and given it more of an ending.

Starting to pick things up...

Here is my first effort at the lifting sequence. I think this has a good sense of character to it, and though perhpas does not stick rigidly to my reference footage I do believe it makes quite a nice characterised piece. However, now after having been shown Softimage's rotoscope tool I will perhaps attempt a more realistic animation.