Assignment #8: Shot Assignments Phase 3 Continued
Assigned: Thursday, Feb 23rd, 2012
Due: Thursday, Mar 1st at 4:30pm
Resources:
- Richard Williams Animator's Survival Kit
Production Shot Breakdowns and Polish
In this assignment you will add breakdowns and some will also polish your assigned shots.
You have a number of shots to animate to full completion for this phase. Follow these three steps:
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Use the reference that was taken, and always feel free to
take your own reference. Draw out planning sheets to help you find the strongest poses and
motion.
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Add breakdowns. Have a good amount ready for your motion check-in
so you can recieve feedback on them before moving
forward. Do not move forward before getting this feedback.
If you move forward prematurely it may result in more potentially wasted
work, since timing/spacing issues may be overlooked and be hard to identify.
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Add more breakdowns/polish. There should be enough inbetweens such that the
we can get a sense of the motion arcs, timing, and overlapping action. Polished work
should be fluid and smooth (ie no popping knees, floaty interpolation, jerky movement).
Turn-in Checklist:
- MOTION CHECK-IN:
- Production Shot breakdowns ready for review
- Please name your files lastname_firstname_assignmentnumber_partnumber_filename.*
(example: doe_john_a1_p2_character_ball.ma)
- Motion Check-in with breakdown poses for production shots.
- Include at least one shortcut to a piece of live-action reference you used.
- Playblast of your production shots with padding.
- Playblast of your production shots with music and WITHOUT padding.