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Aspiring animator, Agreeing Machine here!
Coming off of iAnimate's series of Games workshops, I thought I'd carry on practicing in the open and get what feedback I can.

I still need to master the basics, so expect plenty of idles, walks, runs and jumps for a while. In the meantime I've been refining the last shot I had going at iAnimate. It's a segment of a longer piece that I might return to when I'm better equipped!

https://syncsketch.com/sketch/a7170a716bf1/

(Anna, a psychic, stops an attack by Legion and throws him into a truck. This was a more cinematic assignment.)

In the meantime, I've picked out some Idles to practice basic posing, here's the first, with reference:





So please, I invite any critique or comments, and I'll try to leave a copy of every WIP on Sync Sketch. Will come back with updates at least once a week!

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Been wrapping up the Psychic Throw, definitely not polished, but some day I think I'll be able to lay the foundation of this shot a little smarter...





For now, I can work on the basics. Finished some Idle poses, will have to try to animate one soon.

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One idle is animated:





(It might be worth trying another crouched pose at some point. I bet you can get a lot of mileage out of the simplest side-to-side bend with a lot of offset)

I've been following along with a Kevin Rucker lecture on walks, so these are the bare minimum keys of a vanilla walk from Rhino House:





Notes from the lecture that stood out:
The "treadmill" did seem old fashioned, but it really gets the job done keeping a walk on pinned to your root controller.
There is an emphasis on getting compression/extension in your down/contact poses, as well as basically skipping the usual "pass" pose. It works fine!
The fact that a character tends to pivot all parts around their center of mass is something I hadn't realized for a long time. Seems applicable to most actions.

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The finished walk,





Definitely not my last walk, pretty vanilla.

The Injured Idle,