Week 3 – MA 3D Computer Animation

19-10-2022 Parenting and constraint

Today Nick taught us about doing animation with constraining. I complete a short animation of picking and throwing a ball by setting up a parent relation between the locator and the object.

Firstly I create the first finger. I set up the group between the bottom and the top so I can control the animation better. Also, it is important to keep freezing transformation.

After finishing the first finger, I build up the whole hand.

Nick also told us a quick way to rename objects faster.

Adjusting the size of the forearm and posing the arm.

Parenting the hand locator, ball locator and ball (following by order).

Final animation after adjusting the keyframe to make it more physically accurate.

20-10-2022 Anticipation

Today we had class about anticipation, George gave us the squirrel video as a reference for animating a ball with tail.

Real squirrel reference

Other helpful reference

Final animation:

On 27th I had my feedback from George through syncsketch:

https://syncsketch.com/sketch/dccac5cb5ae7/#/13453954/14066547

I fix my animation accordingly:

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