For the final animation project, I decided to follow the
reference video of Rowan Atkinson’s ‘Mr Bean’ character practising different
handshakes and preparing himself to meet the Queen. I chose this because I
thought it was a simple, yet challenging animation with some snappy movements. So,
I thought I would use this reference video to further aid my animation skills
and to gain a better understanding of how to make fast motions in animation.
At first, I started key-framing the main poses of the
character, using the reference video, and then I changed from step tangents to
spline to see what it looked like as it follows through to the main key-frames.
After that, I just added more keys where he would pause, step around with his
feet, or quickly move his hands and head movements. This allowed me to make the
animation more accurate to the reference video and as I went through the
different control curves, I found that there were quite a few errors with them.
I used the graph editor to change the different tangents that I had placed on
the key-frames, which helped me to get the snappy movements of the character
and to get it to a good state for the rest of the animation.
Therefore, my overall animation included the correct poses I
needed from the reference video and some snappy movements of the character, but
it did not have all of the right movements that Rowan Atkinson did in his skit.
If I were to do this again, I would improve by going through the different
tangents to fix them and adding in some additional frames for the pauses/ quick
movements.
Link to animation video: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BwApOYubPZ5QVWFNSWowV2JoUFE/view?usp=sharing
reference video:
