Yesterday was another 2 Santa day. There is one Santa who is further back in space and largely blocked by a foreground Santa. Since he is blocked I didn’t have to animate his arm. I discovered that he seemed to jitter a bit in relation to the Santa in front of him. He was partly on ones while the foreground Santa was on twos. I had put him on ones to add more weight to his steps. Since he is blocked that weight isn’t as important so I decided to match his animation lockstep with the Santa that was blocking him. This resulted in much smoother motion between them.
The second Santa was animated as a demo as one of my virtual students worked on inbetweens for her scene. She is doing amazing work and next week we animate a walk, step by step, together. Pun intended.
Well this scene has just passed the halfway point so I better get busy and animate a couple of more Santas.
I have been watching effects animation tutorials, so I suspect I will be animating fire soon. There are lots of fires in the film, so I might be opening Pandora’s box.