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The Kixx Rabbit
I really like the exercise that Eric Goldberg did in his book where he takes start and end key that are identical and then puts a different breakdown between them. The result is completely different motions and feels even though it's the same pacing, same character, etc.
I liked it so much that I decided I'd try doing my own version of it.
I also decided I was tired of Mr. Minimalist and that I wanted to do something that was still simple but had some nice secondary motion. Rabbits are particularly nice for this. The ears can be expressive or simple follow-through but more importantly, they're generally up out of the way of the rest of your drawing, unlike a tail which is always crossing the path of your hands and such.
So. Here's my first motion. I'll be using the same start/end keys for the next couple pencil tests I draw. Though hopefully I'll generally be doing them on 2's rather than 1's. I've been having a mad tendency to draw on 1's lately. :)
Mmm! Look at that secondary motion! ... Just don't pay attention to the business, which kind of fails.
This is interesting really. The motion is nice and smooth and lively, and if you single-frame through it, there's a lot of stretch and squash happening. That rabbit gets really stretched.. But when you watch it at speed, it doesn't appear that he got much more than a nudge. Definitely doesn't read as a good hard kick.
This is a funny thing about animation. The individual frames here look pretty wild. If you deformed that much after getting kicked in the rear, you'd be in the hospital. But for a cartoon character, it's barely a tap. This is why motion-capture looks so crappy. With a real person, we just kind of accept that the way they move is how people move, but our brains actually tend to encode motion as much larger actions than what we really see, so to make something that isn't human move in a 'lifelike' fashion, we really have to deform it.
Ohwell. Comments, critiques, criticisms, or heck, even praise would be much appreciated. :)
I liked it so much that I decided I'd try doing my own version of it.
I also decided I was tired of Mr. Minimalist and that I wanted to do something that was still simple but had some nice secondary motion. Rabbits are particularly nice for this. The ears can be expressive or simple follow-through but more importantly, they're generally up out of the way of the rest of your drawing, unlike a tail which is always crossing the path of your hands and such.
So. Here's my first motion. I'll be using the same start/end keys for the next couple pencil tests I draw. Though hopefully I'll generally be doing them on 2's rather than 1's. I've been having a mad tendency to draw on 1's lately. :)
Mmm! Look at that secondary motion! ... Just don't pay attention to the business, which kind of fails.
This is interesting really. The motion is nice and smooth and lively, and if you single-frame through it, there's a lot of stretch and squash happening. That rabbit gets really stretched.. But when you watch it at speed, it doesn't appear that he got much more than a nudge. Definitely doesn't read as a good hard kick.
This is a funny thing about animation. The individual frames here look pretty wild. If you deformed that much after getting kicked in the rear, you'd be in the hospital. But for a cartoon character, it's barely a tap. This is why motion-capture looks so crappy. With a real person, we just kind of accept that the way they move is how people move, but our brains actually tend to encode motion as much larger actions than what we really see, so to make something that isn't human move in a 'lifelike' fashion, we really have to deform it.
Ohwell. Comments, critiques, criticisms, or heck, even praise would be much appreciated. :)
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