In this week’s session, I fixed some poses from last week’s assignment and learned to turn my blocking animation into a spline. Here is my polished blocking play blast:
And here is my note written from the session:
While developing the tail animation, I found it important to understand how the tail can possibly follow the motion trail of the bouncing ball (body), and how the motion trail in Maya guides the movement of the animation:
In the blocking stage, I found it important to check if all the keys were not in a linear line (even for the distance):
In the end of the animation process, I can clean up the graph editor to make the curve much clear: