Blogpost 7: Weight Shift Animation

For this activity, I am tasked to shift a weight of a simple model from the right leg, to the left leg. Making it into an animation, I have to focus on mainly the hip movement to give the motion of the model a realistic one.

This is the model that I will be using for this activity.

By focusing on the hip movement, I am able to complete the task but there are a couple of things learnt. Recalling on the Animation Principles that I have learnt in Introduction to 3D, I added in Anticipation at the start of the animation. Also, having Secondary Actions are found in the animation I made, seen in the video below. Keeping track of the time intervals for the different poses are crucial to creating a realistic animation. Before starting the animating, I placed keyframes and marked down them for the different start/poses. And frames beside them will be used with Anticipation in the animation. Through this activity, I have recalled all the Animation Principles and made me understand there are many different things to look out for in an animation.

This is the result of the activity.