A blog about C.A.V.E
The fifth week was quite fun to me as the drawing below reminded me of all of the Pixar films. This drawing is of movement and staggered frames. This means that all the key poses are drawn and then all the in between frames are drawn as well.
After this we moved onto pose and balance with a wooden mannequin. we put the mannequin into 3 different positions, a natural stance being one of the poses, and then drew the pose.
In week 4 of the module we moved on from human anatomy to animal anatomy. In a way this was briefly touched upon in week 1 by drawing animals in their basic shapes. However these had to be in more detail. I went online and had a look at some drawings and real life pictures of animals and how their bones were structured.
Below are some drawings of how the skeleton varies from an Ape to a Horse. 
The drawings also show how an animal such as a dog or a cat would look if they were to be on their hind legs. I found this quite interesting as no matter what they all seem to follow the same line of action straight down the middle.
During this week we took a look at the human body an all the muscles that allow us to move the way we do. we looked at certain muscles groups such as the pectorals, biceps, triceps and latissimus dorsi. 
During this week we started working on drawing that where in perspective. we took the basic shapes that we were working on during the first week and we added dimensions to them. In order to do that we had to involve construct lines. these allow you to draw 3D images by following simple lines to something called a Vanishing Point
Below are some sketches that I managed to do using perspective. 
The introduction week to drawing for animation was a session of getting to know the tutors and getting to know our abilities in drawing. we started off by drawing some basic shapes for a while before trying to turn them into something. I realised that everything that you see is comprised of basic shapes. Then I started to follow the plan and draw animals such as cats, dragonfly’s birds etc. with only basic shapes.
We then incorporated shading into the drawing making them look 3D and give them a bit of perspective.
in this final week we had a choice of which animation we wanted to do. There was an animation of the character surfing or him interacting with another character. I chose th surfing one as it would be more of a challenge
This was my attempt at the animation.
This week we went back to some simpler animations such as a walk cycle. We had to make the character seem as if they were walking casually. I added small tweaks to the arms and torso to give it a more cartoon-y feel.
During this week we were given the same character however we were introduced to props. The prop used was a big box/container that we were mean to portray as heavy. We had to make sure that we used the Squash and Stretch tool and make the object look immovable.
This is my attempt at the animation.
In this week the challenge was to make the character pick up a ball that was quite sizable. I went to google to research and looked at some videos on how people interacted with objects bigger than them in terms of lifting them up and they all seemed to fold around the object. So I tried the same with my character
I made him lift the ball from the bottom sides and use his whole body to get it off the ground.
For this weeks challenge we stepped it up a bit and were told that we had to animate the same pre-set character but make it balance on one foot. If you looked at someone balancing one one foot they may be quite rigid and able to keep their balance. However I chose to go with someone who had trouble keeping their balance. This was to add a bit of realism to my work.
C.A.V.E 