Character Rig Walk Cycle 2

Improvement of my character rig Phil's walk cycle.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHLXv6DUmOw&feature=plcp

Character Animation Practice

Some extra practice at animating my rig Phil to do something more complicated than walk.

Character Design Idea's

Character Refference's I got from Google Images for my Character. So far I have 3 idea's, I'm not sure which one to go for yet.

Knight

  

 Robot

Wizard

Dynamic Character Pose Refference Sketches

A collection of dynamic pose sketches I can use as refference and maybe inspiration when designing my character.

Geometry Practice

My attempt to create a human over the summer is a good example of bad geometry. He may look ok as he is, but if he was rigged he would be very difficult to pose or animate due to the lack of edge-loops which allow models to deform smoothly.

Character Design page3

A quick practice at drawing the correct body proportions on a simple standing character without adding much detail, simply trying to get things the right size and length.

Character Design page2

Second page of character designs. Practicing some development of face and head shape drawing, concluding that it i would be easier to model a character with a simple hat and/or no hair.

Character Designs page1

Page 1 of initial character designs. Unsure of what kind of character to create.

Walk Cycles

33 frame character walk cycle plan. Frame 33 is animated but not rendered because it is the same as frame 1, so the final render can be played in a loop.

Character Rig Walk Cycle

My first practice at animating a rigged character.

Walk Cycle Animation

3D character walk cycles to guide and influence my character animation.

Normal
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1-oktjC03M

Happy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ua5ehIJl0DA

Angry
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KS634XtXGO4

Sneaky
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4xYRJiTXPg

Geometry Examples

Examples of Geometry to guide my character model.
Good geometry requires a good number of polygons to make the model smooth, but not so many that rendering takes longer than necissary. Also extra polygons are required on the front/outside of joints so it can bend properly.

Character Design_ Influence2

A second character model moodboard to influence my ideas.

Character Design_Influence

A moodboard of character models to influence my designs.