Tia Whitehead - BA (Hons) Computer Animation Arts

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Character posing For the first part of the day we focused on how characters are posed and how their poses relate to their emotions and status.  In the lecture we were put into groups of three and given 10 poses to complete. During this part of the lecture one person stood in front of the two other people in the group and posed while the other two drew. Below are the drawings that I completed. We were told to draw stick figures so that it was easier for us to draw. For the second part of the lecture we focused on our own characters. I decided on how the story was going to unfold in my animation and selected the bugs that I would use as characters.  The villain - A centipede. This is as a centipede has multiple legs and due to this he would be able to carry multiple guns in the story. Justin and I also looked further at centipedes and Justin suggested that as the character is long it could almost act as though it is two separate ...

In the Maya lesson we were told to do 5 weight lifting poses. We had a reference video to use to help recreate the poses. Weight lifting poses: Weight lifting play blast:

For this Maya lesson we looked at how to pose Moom to replicate a dramatic pose from a film or TV series. Pose 1: Rachel - Friends Pose 2: Joker Pose 3: Jumanji Pose 4: Legend Pose 5: Ready Player One

While posing the Moom character I looked into each person's posture and how their body's shaping would help me to position the Moom character correctly. Action shot 1: Kicking a football Action shot 2: Karate kick Action shot 3: Tennis hit Action shot 4: Ballet Action shot 5: Hockey