Ok so for the last week i have decided to take some time for Rest and Recuperation or gardening and helping out and catching up with jobs around the house.
Anyway enough about that. Today i have started my run cycle. Looking back at the run it does look a lot like stop motion which would be brilliant if i was doing stop motion maybe.
There is a few things wrong. Now this is an early stage blocking. But i can't help feel that even for blocking that something just ain't right. You today i have been using the Animators Survival Kit by Richard Williams as my main guide. Which has been helpful and is the best book ever. But i think i have been reallying it too much.
So that i haven't been thinking of all my other attributes to my run that would be specific to the how Diamond Standard would run. Now yes this is the massive duh moment in that i haven't looked at a run. You see we just assume that we know what a run looks like and you a thought in the mind and you run along with that. I mean i have been running since i was walking. The logic was combine what was in ye head with the principles of the book and boom a run. But no and was stupid to think so.
Another reason why the run looks a little bit weird is a tried to run on the spot. I thought i could possibly cheat death my running a step animation then copying it and doing the movement later. I reckon this could be a key reason to weirdness. When you think about it unless ya on a treadmill running on the spot flat out is impossible. A run is a movement across space and physiques blah blah. Now on a computer granted you could run on the spot because the laws of gravity aren't real. But for the purpose of my animating ability i think an actual run across digital space would benefit more.
So a few lessons learnt today. Yes some could say a day wasted but we days like this to figure out the mistakes. As the wise saying goes a fool learns by his own mistakes while the wise man learns by watching the fool.
Tomorrow is another day and i have started researching runs and the type of run the standard would have. Already i feel take 2, is gonna run a lot smoother.
