Final Post
This semester, I originally set three goals for myself: animating a quadruped walk, creating a dialogue piece with three characters, and capturing a close-up interaction between a female character and an animal. I found that I really struggled with planned projects keeping my interests. Once I saw a peer doing a face expression test, I knew that I wanted to do that too. I then started playing around with metahumans, so I planned to scan a friend’s face and record motion capture of him doing basketball themed actions. My goals towards the end turned into animating a polished cat’s quadruped walk cycle with a runway model’s bipedal walk cycle, blocked flirty themed face expression test, few shots of the custom metahuman doing various basketball moves in a park environment, and blocked small interaction between characters without dialogue. The quadruped and biped walk cycle took a lot longer than I thought. I wasn’t paying attention to how the muscles interacted with one anoth