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Week 8 over and done...

Sunday, August 24, 2008 by Daryl Hunter

Week 8 was pretty killer. A "Vanilla" or basic walk cycle and a "Physical Strength" pose...

The walk is only half way done. Its in what we refer to as stepped keys mode, which is just the key poses with no inbetween poses. Its jerky, but that is because the key pose is being held over multiple frames, ensuring we see only the work we have done with no computer assistance. Next week we add the inbetweens, tweak it, and finish it up.

Here was my planning for each:


Physical Strength Sketches Vanilla Walk planning


And here is the final results of what I've turned in:

Physical Strength Pose Vanilla Walk

Week 7, Tailor

Saturday, August 16, 2008 by Daryl Hunter

Hey everyone, Wow, time sure flies when you are having fun. Its week 7 now, and we've got a new character. Everybody meet Tailor, or bouncing ball with a tail. This character allows us to utilize everything we've learned so far about motion. Our assignment is a simple 3 bounces with nice overlap on the tail. Simple...I took it a little farther trying to incorporate a little sense of character...
Tailor Bounce

Week 6

Thursday, August 07, 2008 by Daryl Hunter

Hey everyone, I'm in week 6 now. Working on a pendulum assignment. We have the option of doing a basic start stop, or any kind of crazy motion we like. I went with the basic start stop this time because I really want to nail the principle of overlapping action and I think I will best understand it in its most basic form. THere is time to play later ;-) So what do you guys think?
Pendulum Refining

Friday, August 01, 2008 by Daryl Hunter

Fixed an area around frame 48 where the ball hovered at the apex of his jump. Good for really exagerated cartoony stuff but it didn't fit with the rest of the piece, took some frames out and added tem to the front where Ive added a hop to help sell the distance he is able to travel on his first jump.
Obstacle Refining Movie

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Daryl Hunter

My name is Daryl Hunter, I'm a 23 year old animation lover, character animator, and constant learner. I'm currently taking the character animation program with Animation Mentor, I'm in class 1 now. I'm also a former graduate of The Vancouver Institute of Media Arts, in their 2 year commercial animation program. I seek employment in digital character animation in either 2d or 3d software packages.



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Feel free to contact me via email, at daryl@dhpictures.com



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