SELF ASSESSMENT

Overal I did not found this module very dificult, but it was my lack of time management that frustated me more, I supposed.
Every part of this  project was very chaleging, from the walk cycle, running cycle to the push and lifting moovements.

For the quadruped workshop, I think I should had work a little bit harder,  it looks sloppy, and I am very sorry for not be able to finish or improved more, because when I started feeling more confortable with it, I start running out of time.
I am not pleased at all with any of the outcoming of this projects, because I belive, or better I know that could have done way better, but it something that slid out of my hands, and
I lost control of the  of the entire project.

Regarding The Lifting, Push, and Pull , it was way bad, it was not difficult, it was again TIME!!
After I managed to so some work for this  project I had my USB corrupted, and all my files were deleted because I had to format the USB in order to use it again. However I managed to save some files on my Onedrive but it was not much, so I had to redo it all over again, which only increased my level of stress more.
I tried to do as much as possible for this one, but I had to move on to my obstacle course, which did not took me too long.
If I had a little bit of time to improve this work, I would it slow it down, and clean the line for the Obstacle. I would finish my Weight workshop, and improve the dog locomotion.  Right now it looks all very sketchy and the transitions are a bit sloppy.

Obstacle Course WEEK 5 and 6

Ok.  For the obstacle course I chose the damn dog again, I did not wanted to animate a person, I guess because I felt that making the dog running and jumping around would be easier, and as I did not had much time I had to take advance of any easy way to get this done as soon as possible.

I researched loathes of videos, from dogs events, to police dogs training, whatever I could found I used it. 

First TRY

Did not worked that well.

2nd TRY

Finally I managed to have something worth showing.

I could not clean the lines and make it look "prettier". I feel that many things could had been improved , but I have to admit my time management for this project was beyond horrendous.

WEEK 3 and 4 WEIGHT

Oh the wight Week!! Awful Week!!

I don't know How but I managed to miss this day, which was terrible, I could not catch up, and I just managed to get behind in the project.

I managed to do some research 

 I found very helpfull footage examples. In the other hand my colegues record themselves doind the pulling and pushing moovements, which some of them shared with me. Unfortunatelly I did not had time to finish the entire cycle, or improve the TEST version, but I already had a few sketches and psd files,.


TEST 1 

Week 1+ 2 Quadruped Locomotion

I was a little bit uneasy regarding this project.
The reason why was because of my own choice of animating a dog .
This project proved to be quite a hard task.
As I never  animated an animal before I believe I should go to animal more simple to animate like a skirell, not that skirells are super easy, but I believe it would not give such an hard time like he dog did.  

 

 I used the footage of an actual dog to sketch out the cycle. Finding References for the Dog was not the dificult part, because to be fair, there is enomerous reference around the internet.

I first looked at the structure of the dog skeleton, to see how the bones were positionated, and located.
After reserching I start sketching, . I realise after a few sketches and already knew how to draw a dog without looking at it..  Finding References for the Dog was not the dificult part, because to be fair, there is enomerous reference around the internet.

  Mooved from the researching and sketching part I  finaly felt redy to animate. There was when everything start going wrong. At first the cycle never match, and after a few atemps I start getting frustated. The walk cycle was the hardest part for me .

After a few more atempts, ad changing the dog drawing loathes of time, I start trying to put them together, which still look odd, but my time was running and I did not had much time to improve it
 anyway.


FINAL VERSION

 

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