Dr. El animation

Posted by on Mar 12, 2010 in Blog

Dr. El is filming himself presenting new substance which is hopefully going make him taller.

I’ve been working on this for about 5 or 6 days so far. It was supposed to be 340 frames, but it kinda stretched. There’s been some major changes today, but it certainly looks much better now that in the morning. I can start cleaning up the curves tomorrow and then onto polishing. Particles are just a placeholders so far. They are definitely not going to look like this in the end.

Critiques and comment are always very welcome…

3 Comments

  1. Toke Jepsen
    March 13, 2010

    Looking good Milan:-)

    Personally I don’t like the pose at frame 80. Not that its a bad pose, but since its so early in the animation it kinda sets the tone of the character. BUT that’s the only place the doctor consciously behaves like that. I would that you need to either push your other conscious poses a lot more, or tone down the pose at frame 80.

    The reaction at frame 121-128, is way too quick. Within 7 frames, you have the mouse growing bigger, the doctor seing what happens and gets frightened about the change. It would sell the emotion better if you allowed for more reaction time.
    The animation of the Doctor in this part, also seems quite pose-to-pose and I think you are missing the opportunity of nice overlapping action and some follow-through. The same goes for frame 134 to 140.

    Since the reaction at frame 267-290 is so big, I would have expected a quite big anticipation but I don’t see any??

    I think from 295 and onwards work well. I especially like the investigative looks at frame 368/376. Though again I do feel that you are missing an opportunity for overlapping action. I like the sudden stops with no follow-through. I would keep that, and just have moving holds to keep the character alive.

    Lastly to really nitpick I would have a look at the right arm at frame 338, and create some more negative space between the arm and the torso. Just for better silhouette reading.

    Hope you don’t mind, that I pick you animations apart:-)

  2. Milan
    March 13, 2010

    No worries Toke…You’d have to go much further with it for me to mind :).

    Thanks for great feedback. I’m definitely going to look at those things. The only place where I could possibly oppose is the steam bit. He has no idea that it’s gonna happen, therefore cannot really anticipate it, can he? I get your point, I just felt that this was selling the effect a bit more. Anyway I’ll try adding some anticipation and will see.

  3. Toke Jepsen
    March 14, 2010

    hehe, np. About the anticipation for the steam bit, although he doesn’t know its going to happen, you still build in some anticipation. Since its his body reacting to substance, the body might automatically do an anticipation. It doesn’t have to be a bit one, might be a small wave action coming from his belly and going to his head (a bit like when someone is puking).

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