Tuesday, 1 November 2011

My walk cycle evaluation

I found the walk cycle very exciting and is quite a new thing for me, i really enjoyed making it and drawing up my character to make it.
I found it quite hard to do a good drawing to put onto photoshop as im not the best at drawing but i still did the best of my ability, i also found it hard to get used to photoshop as i've never used it before but after a couple sessions i got used to it and became familiar with some of the tools we had to use and the layouts we had to use, i also learnt how to scan my work and upload it onto photoshop, another thing i learned was how to put a soundtrack onto my animation. These are my original drawings for my walk cycle.



I found it rather easy to actually animate my drawing once i was familiar with how to edit on photoshop and import my work onto adobe flash. It was pretty straight forward and easy to understand how to use adobe flash and i caught onto it very quickly and started to animate my walk cycle.
Here is a short clip of my walk cycle.


Walk cycles are very useful in the world of animation, if you can understand the basics it will help you so much when your trying to make a full length animation sequence or a short movie. A walk cycle is where it all starts, if you cannot do a walk cycle you will not be able to animate much else, which is why you must first learn to do it correctly.

Feedback. 

1.  You could imrpove your art work in order to make your animation better.
2.  You should give your walk cycle more detail, which may get you a higher grade.
3.  You could improve your skills with adobe flash player which will make your animation "walk cycle" look a lot better.

Thank you for the feedback, i will try my best to improve my art work as i go, and as i progress in the course i will hopefully learn alot more skills in all aspects. I am trying my best to understand these new programmes which i have never used before such as photoshop and adobe flash player.