Pose-to-pose - blocking tutorial

For this exercise I followed this tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hS426Cw2GoE



The tutorial was more of an exercise for how to produce good poses for the character whilst doing a pose-to-pose animation. The person talked about how you should make the character express their emotions through the poses you make them do and you should make sure that the audience recognises this so they can empathise with the character. He also mentioned when working with the camera, you should get used to the ‘line of action’, which is where the different limbs of the character follow a line and different camera angles help to capture this. With this information, I went into the ‘Max for Maya’ scene and did five different poses myself (including the T-pose) and expressed four different emotions with them. I feel as though I got some strong looking poses, which clearly show how the character would be thinking in the scene and I was also able to express this through the character’s face. Using the ‘Max for Maya’ file was very useful to play around with and it allowed me to practice with a rig for how to move the different parts of a character to suit to the emotion you want to express. What I would do differently is to somehow tell a story with the poses and to then figure out the spacing between the different poses to have a blocking animation with a story.

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