4x Movement Sketches

Movement: Walking

 Props: Kicking the ball

 Gravity: Crouching and jumping up to kick the ball

 Velocity: Running and walking

Chair Movement

Researching Movement

I researched human and animal movements to see how to rig and animate my character. I will be referring to these a lot while I animate because they are so helpful.

I started looking at human movement but it was hard to apply it to a creature with four legs. I couldn't figure out how four legs moved together.

Human Movement

Animal Movement

I looked into dog and cat movements and found this fitted more with my chair.

I found the last image of the dog movements the most helpful because it showed a range of velocity movements. 
This video is incredibly helpful also.

Weighing him down

I was taught how to weigh the model and completed this quickly. I struggled a bit with the weighing of the front legs but I fixed it in the end.

Finished Rigging the Chair

Finally finished rigging! 

Rigging the Chair

 Trying to figure out how to rig my character is difficult because I'm not hugely sure how I want him to move or what I want him to do. I want him to have a knee joints instead of walking with rigid legs. This will give the character more freedom for more different actions. I want him to be able to turn his "back" and be able to bend over to sigh. 

I am still figuring this out at the moment. I will research it further and look up tutorials.

The Story

The Original Story:

• Chair minding his own business while walking
• Ball comes out of nowhere and hits the chair in the "head"
• Ball falls to the ground
• Chair gets angry
• Looks around to see if anyone is around
• Kicks ball away, angrily
• Running to catch up with the ball to kick it again
• Chair slows down because it is tired
• Jumps up and down with anger
• Pauses again to catch his breath

Edited Story:

• Chair minding his own business while walking
• Ball comes out of nowhere and hits the chair in the "head"
• Ball falls to the ground
• Chair pauses and tries to remain calm
• Suddenly turns to the ball
• Ball bounces playfully away
• Deep sigh from the chair
• Starts shaking with anger
• Starts running after ball
• Catches up to the ball
• Chair kicks the ball away
• Turns around and starts to walk away
• Ball starts following the chair without the chair knowing

Modelling the Chair

Characters Traits

Primary school chair

• Worn out
• Fed up
• Short temper
• Maybe with a slight limp from being battered around by children/Wobbly
• Rough
• Scratches 
• Interaction with the ball would be either a "can't be bothered" vibe or so fed up that he'll kick it away, or be angry with it. I can imagine the ball being thrown at the character and hitting him unexpectedly

Character Concepts

 Playing around with different personalities 

Final chosen inanimate object: Chair

An older, pompous chair. Intimidating

A preschooler's chair, playful, excited, messy

A chair based on a scorpion type form, pounces, sneaky

Primary school chair, tired, mistreated,

Primary school chair -different style

Researching the Objects: Visuals

Lamp

Vacuum Cleaner






Clock

Unicycle

Toaster:

Chair:

Espresso Machine:
 
Dial Telephone:

Holiday Exercises: Tower

I found these instructions really hard to understand. I couldn't finish the exercise because I found it too difficult.

Here is my progress though: