I am starting to work a little bit more. I'm working on a surprised animation. This is around 3 hours of work, I tried a new way of animating which has been working out pretty well, it quickens my animation time and makes everything a bit more fluid.

The animation's hands have not yet  been animated as they should. I need to work on the speed of the feet coming up and down as he jumps at being startled.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykKNRh_7ll4

I definitely saw what you meant when you said it could be faster. I've somewhat finessed more of the animation the hands are still not animated. The feet and the timing overall I believe is better.

I'm going to be adding on to this for an emotion change or two.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_N2wFqFees

It has been entirely too long since I last posted an update. I've worked 2-3 more hours into the project. I've sped up the animation even further and I think it's starting to get a little more "suprised" each revision. I made his hands finally animated (at least for the first part) and his feed have gotten a good look through.

Mathias I completely see what you mean, I hope to have a second animation either as a second scene or a very off center and close the screen scary face. To give a good idea of my mental image, picture the movie beatlejuice when he has to show a scary face, and it shows the back of his head as odd little tentacles launch out of his face for a second and go back in. I'm trying to picture something that would actually cause someone to jump that high and cause that much of a commotion.

As always critiques and criticisms are always welcome.

Edit: I think something went wrong in uploading the movie, please let me know if it seems to skip or just ends abruptly.


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Howdy again,

I do agree with you Mathias, but it wasn't him coming to a relaxed state so much as I didn't animate much past that and I forgot to correct the time slider  .

I added around 3-5 seconds on to my last revision. Some of the body still needs a good finessing since I did so much extra time and body movement with 1-2 hours.

I need to work on his transition from being puzzled to being sad. His facial animation could use a bit more work as well.

Thank you guys for all the critiques on my work. It's making me annoyed with the animation so I fix it right after wards