notes from underground

Current ratio: 7 hours of animation time to four seconds of footage. w00t.

The project we’re working on for our final is a comedy piece dealing with a knight in armor, who has to find some way to get through security. I’m responsible for animating the sections where the knight, realizing that he carries a sword and is made of METAL, takes himself apart and puts his sword and the armor through security.

Worked last night on the first part of that shot, where he backs up from security before deciding to put down his sword. Spent four hours on it, got it looking OK, then it got messed up… spent another three this morning, still a little jerky and maybe even slow, but it’s there. Take a look if you’re interested.

I’ve uploaded both the original animation of my first try at the clip, and the more successfully animated version (with more fluid movement). Hope they work, they’re in quicktime format:
Good animation, bad texturing
Bad animation, good texturing