AM Class 1 ( Week 5 )

PENDULUM  WEEK

Before you start animating Pendulum i would suggest you to do a detailed planning for this assignment because when i had started this assignment i hurried up during the planning and later i was around so many problems . So, if you want to go through this assignment really well then focus more on planning.

Here are few tips which will help you in this assignment-:

1. When you start planning think of some creative idea and what path are you going to take your 

     Pendulum through  or if you think you want to keep it simple then also it's ok , 

     I myself  kept the pendulum assignment really simple because i wanted to understand the 

     principle of overlap and not stuck in assignment by making it more complicated.

2. When you start animating the Pendulum then you should first start with animating the 

     Platform,which is at the top of the Pendulum. You can have the Pendulum do some

     Anticipation before moving forward by making the Platform go slight back .

3.  After you have completed with animating the Pendulum then start 

     animating the joints . 

4. Think of what is leading and what is following ? Understand the force . As the Platform moves 

     forward the joints will follow in delay .

5. Very important point don't have the Tip of the Joint go beyond the position it was before it 

     started moving.

6. When the Platform stops the joints will keep on moving and gradually come to halt .

Use the Overlapping Family to make this assignment rock !

Devastation Pose

I have already mentioned in my previous post in Detail about how to pose your character.

I will add on two more points to remember while posing the character  -:

1. Avoid Tweening in arms and legs.

2. Avoid Cliche Poses.