I spent the day animating the run of the woman in the light purple dress. The shot is just short of two seconds long so there is more time that will be needed to animate. I thought I could get away with animating three strides of the woman’s run but when that was complete, it looked like she was running in slow motion. I had to animate one more stride to liven up her run.
I had also plotted out her run to start rather far to the right of the robotic leg. I changed my mind and had to move all the animation drawings to the left so she starts her run right next to the leg.
The run of the man turned out much smoother and I didn’t have to alter timing as much for his run. Much of the woman’s run had to be put on ones to speed things up but his run worked out fine on twos. I just put several drawings on ones when his foot slaps had down on the pavement. That added a little snap and weight to each stride. His animation will be what I strive for with all the other runs.
I will start out today figuring out his arm swings. His right arm will often hide some of the woman in purple. I have four more people to animate running in the foreground, I might finish three of those today. Folks in the front row I label A1, 2, 3 etc and then Row B is B1, 2, 3 etc. I have about a down animations to consider.