Friday, May 16, 2014

Week 6 - Creating Weight in Four Legged Walks

Continued with dog poses and blocking out the dog walk this week. Sketches and Poses:

Dogs @ Play!

Sloan with Bird Ball


2 Sloans 1 Pic


I realised I hadn't put up what I was using for reference for my dog walk. Most of my influence came from studying the first part of the video as it gave me a perfect profile view of a dog walk. It's easy to see the shape of the legs and the ups and downs of the chest, hips and head. I couldn't find any good reference of dog walks from a front view, so I filmed my cat to get the body mechanics right for the feet curls and arcs. For the rotations I spent a lot of time watching lectures (copyrighted so I can't put here) and really breaking down what was happening, even more so than my planning. My cat was also blessed with my presence more often as I gazed at his walk pattern endlessly.



Here's what it looks like at the moment:

quadreference compressed from Aaron Skinner on Vimeo.

assignment 001 from Aaron Skinner on Vimeo.

It kind of looks like he's limping, likely due to too much movement in the neck, but also bad video editing as I was having issues rendering the cycles correctly. I've still got one more week of polish on this, then it's onto our final assignment for the term XD

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