Friday, June 22, 2012

Roundhouse Kick


roundhouse kick from kwabena sarfo on Vimeo.

I officially hated 3D animation whilst working on parts of this. I came to understand just how TOUGH it is to get a dynamic pose when the model and rig you're using isn't really capable of being twisted in such ways. Then there's all the interpolation stuff! Sheesh! Anyway, I'm really happy with how this turned out. It was our first real body mechanics exercise. I used one of the kicks in this video I found as my reference. The only thing I wish I'd done differently was exaggerate it a little more. I shouldn't have stuck so slavishly to the reference. Below are the prelim drawings I did...









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