A blog about C.A.V.E
Below are the animations that I think best show my creature and how it moves, hunts and thinks.
In the last animation the creature makes little to no noise until it is right up on the victim, this is to instil fear into its prey which then makes then act stupidly and make mistakes. This makes it easier for it to hunt.
For the past couple of weeks I have been doing research on different sorts of animals to see which one would most likely move like my creature. The animal that would be most like mine would be a bird, such as an ostrich. They have the same leg and bone structure and they move quite similar as well.
Using the research from the previous weeks I was able to come up with a final design or my creature with colour. The colour is a pale skin tone which, when accompanied with the saggy skin, makes the creature look very unsettling which is what I was aiming for in this design. I changed the feet to be more based on the moorhen. I did this because I like the idea of the feet being closed to a point when lifted off the ground. I feel like it makes the creature look elegant as well as unsettling which is a strange match up. Below are the designs for my creature
For my creature I thought that I would go a bit out of the ordinary and do something that looks very weird. I decided to myself that what people find the most disturbing and strange is the human from that has been disfigured or messed around with. I researched into monsters with a human from and came across something that had leg joints going in the opposite direction. This gave me an idea to create this big bulking monster with awkward joint.
I started to research dinosaurs such as Velociraptors and Parasaurolophus’ seeing as these two have the leg design that I was after. then by trying to follow the extract I had to come up with an idea that made it look weird and disturbing but still recognisable and distinguishable. then I remembered one of the monsters from Doctor Who called the Slitheen. I related my monster to this one heavily as it had everything that I needed to reference. I made the limbs shorter and moved some anatomy about.
The mouth of my monster is located on the forearm and it doesn’t have any teeth. It eats its prey by dissolving it in acid and then feeding on the liquid.
Some other reference images that I used are shown below.
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.
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