Project 2 - Animation

Robot Simple Walk - Front View

Robot Simple Walk - Side View

For the first part of this assignment, I find that it is actually quite easy to do. There is a word document that I can refer to. It was quite straightforward actually. However, I did encounter two problems. The first one was that, I realized that there was a slight jerk at one part of the video. In the end, I found out that there was a mistake on the graph editor. I managed to solve it after doing the respective changes. The second problem that I faced was the movement of the robot. It looks a bit stiff at first, but when I added movements to its shoulders, it looks much more realistic. I also added the background just for fun. Hehe.

At the end of it, I am satisfied with the outcome. I hope you are too! :)

Robot Walking Happily With Confidence - Front View

Robot Walking Happily With Confidence - Side View

Initially, I thought of doing the robot with the box. However, it was a bit too advance for me. Haha. So in the end, I decided to do the walk. At first, I was a bit stressed, because I find that it's actually quite difficult to do a walk. So, I have decided to imagine a walk whereby the robot is actually skipping happily. Unfortunately, it didn't look too good. Haha. There were a lot of mistakes. Mr George even mentioned that "This work will not pass." Thank goodness I showed the video to him first before burning it into the CD. After hearing his feedback, I re-do the whole animation. I referred to this PDF file that can be found on OLIVE, and I followed the steps carefully. The outcome is not bad actually. For a student who is not good at animation, I am actually very satisfied with both outcomes! :)

Anyway, I would like to take this oppurtunity to thank Mr George for teaching us 3DPF. I gained a lot of knowledge from this subject and I am starting to get interested in animation. Haha. So, Thank You!

The Walk

The Walk (Side-View)

The Walk (Front-View)

The next lesson, we were then told to animate this headless robot. We were supposed to make it walk and also, sway left and right at the same time. Above are the results for my animation. At first, I did have difficulties making it walk because I missed the first lesson. With the help from my coursemate, Nurqiah, I was able to animate the walking part. After that, for the swaying left and right, it was quite easy to be done because there was actually a step by step tutorial which was actually quite easy to understand. In fact, Mr George also demonstrated, so it was quite easy to complete it.

Big Dog Walk

For this particular exercise, we were told to animate the Big Dog model just like the one we have watched in the video. Personally, I find that it was very easy to animate Big Dog because I just have to adjust the leg positions. It might not look exactly like the one in the video, but I feel that at least it still looks quite similar. Towards the end, I did rotate the model a bit so that it looks as though it is going to fall but then it managed to balance itself.