Pot Luck Practice 02 ~ Norman Moonwalks

It's strange how somethings come around in a odd karma~tic sorta way. Before going down to Singapore for CGOverdrive last month I picked out MJ Moonwalk from my pot luck practice and come 3 weeks later MJ passes away.

It was going to be such a cliche animation but either way it would be great to study MJ's illusion of walking while gliding backwards, so I pulled out my Double Gold Disc MJ History album and MJ's one and only Moonwalker the movie. Things I'd had to take care was to make sure it looked convincing and that Norman was doing a sliding walk and not just floating backwards and the other thing was to make it look as though it had the illusion of weightlessness while trying to maintain some sort of weight to the animation itself, which in a way is an oxymoron for animation principles.

Anyway here it is, any feed back would be appreciated.

Pot Luck Practice 01 ~ Diving Into ...

Randomly picking a piece of yellow paper with something written on it to practice animation. Time taken about 5 days on and off. Overall I still feel its a bit floaty..... :(

Oh it's also my first time animating majority with Forward Kinetics (FK) arms and switching them to Inverse Kinetics (IK) when they contact surface, I still feel much more comfortable with IK arms being an IK animator from the begining. With FK arms I had to change a bit of how I usually animate, had to really start with the body and then work my way too the tip of the fingers, make sure the body animation, including shoulders, is more or less there if not you're just wasting time and going to have to reanimate the arms from shoulders onwards caused by FK.




Critiques and Comments are welcome.