Revision of “vanilla walk” & “concerned” Stu pose

Wow, it’s week 10 allready, I’m learning character walks, listening to Gorillaz’ new album, the sun is shining and the snow is melting outside!

I got feedback from my mentor, Eric Lessard, on last weeks assignment, and he wasn’t too pleased with the Stu pose and sketches. It didn’t show a concerned emotion very clearly, but it’s a tough one, and I’m not the only one who struggled. From the critique I figured out that you need to have one hand to the head to show you’re concerned. Agree to disagree? 🙂 It’s interesting that so many students struggled to show this emotion in a pose. Well, I’ve done more “concerned” sketches, and made two revisions of the pose. I’m not sure yet if I’m handing in both. The “vanilla walk” just needed a tiny bit of change on the feets.

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Week 9 – Exaggeration & Weight

Week 9 is almost over and I have finished my “vanilla walk” and posed a “concerned” Stu (as a girl this time!) I have to prepare myself for week 10 & 11 when I’m supposed to animate a walk with character. I’m not sure what to do yet, but my thoughts have been on doing a moonwalk (MJ style) or a drunk girl on high heels…but I haven’t decided anything yet. Anyway, here’s what I handed in this wek;

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Week 8 – Introduction to walks

Hello readers! I’ve just got back from skiing in the mountains, so I just uploaded this weeks assignment to hand in. We had to start making a “vanilla walk” by blocking out the main key poses, and hand it in as stepped mode. A “vanilla walk” is basically a normal-everyday-walk without character. “Oooh that’s easy” you might say, but hey, there’s a lot of details in a walk! So in week 9 we’re taking the blocking further to finish this walk without character. We also had to make a Stu pose this week, showing “physical strength”.

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