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Month: October 2025

Categories
Character animation Uncategorised

Week 1: Golden pose

  1. clear silhouette
  2. line of action
  3. balance and weight
  4. asymmetry
  5. (extra) EXAGGERATION EMOTION PERSONALITY

Analyze the golden pose from an animation:

https://syncsketch.com/sketch/FxIU0hVkcpPC

Try the golden pose:

Feedback from Ting: the first is fine. For the second one, the body should twist more to have an arc, for now, it’s straight. The supporting leg should not bend that much, because it will lose force and power.

Categories
Body mechanics

Week 2: Pendulum

Planning:

  1. I focus on the overlapping action of the tail of the pendulum, and each joint is 2-4 frames delay in succession.
  2. I did 2 anticipation actions before the pendulum move forward.
  3. I did a few follow-through actions to slow down the pendulum.

animation:

Categories
Body mechanics

Week 1: bouncing ball

Planning: I take reference from basketball, try to have stretch and squash not too heavy but in the proper place. And I pay attention to the ending follow-through that the ball has a slight pullback.

animation:

Feedback from George:

  1. The angle of the arc for each bounce can be smaller
  2. The rotation of the ball should be aligned vertically on the motion trail
  3. The pullback of the ball in the end should decrease the translation

Revised version: