This term we were asked to create a number of new animation exercises meant to test our understanding of movement, timing and all the animation principles.
Character choice – Mimi – Kaori Watanabe
I chose to animate Kaori’s character design as I designed a human character for this assignment so wanted to use a non- human character to animate. I love Kaori’s whimsical style and the way she does her line art.
Reference footage
Again, I always struggle with the filming of my own reference footage, as I don’t feel confidence as an actor. I’m getting a bit better with practice but still have a long way to go! But here is the footage I’m using for the body acting animation.
Below I’ve attached my initial sketches from my sketchbook of the concept. I tried to keep them loose and filled with movement.
1st pass
Final Animation
After quite a few revisions, this is the version I will be uploading for submission.