Week 7: Getting A Leg Up...

Arcs and path of action are the topic we're most concerned with this week. Getting the animation to flow well, making sure all of the paths of action follow natural, convincing arcs, and how to enhance those arcs in poses to more effectively "sell" the action and make it "readable" to an audience. To help us begin to understand these concepts we're doing a one-legged jump, using all of the principles we've learned so far, and now adding arcs.

Here's the blocking, I actually did two sheets of blocking this week to try to get this right:

And here's the animation. Warren had a few good suggestions, like breaking up the leg movement to give it some rhythm. A few others suggested adding a small hop at the end. One of the campus mentors told me he thought this was one of the best jumps he's seen this semester, so that's cool.

Click the image to see animation.