Final Animation

First I'd like to say, this animation has taught me so much about animation. I've learnt how important it is to plan out the animation with key poses because it makes it easier to follow the 12 principles, for example I planned out my key actions at the start, so I had decide on what anticipation was optimal before the action, after I researched and animated my anticipation I then followed to apply secondary action. I achieved this by offsetting the top half from the bottom half to achieve a desired elastic motion.

 

The rig used was from creativecrash.com because I felt the rig I created wasn't good enough to get the animation I set out for.

 

The timing is accurate, it gives a good sense of weight in the animation. One of the strongest parts of the animation are towards the end, when its lifting the object, this works well because of how the weight of the object reflects in the characters movement as it tries to balance from left to right.

The weaker points of the animation are at the start because the rig is limited to expressing an emotion to show confusion which would help the viewer to understand whats going on.

The creative aspects of the animation are displayed through the yes and eyebrows. The eyes and eyebrows managed to display the characters frustrated emotions when lifting and suprised/ curious emotions when investigating the shapes.

Although lighting doesn't represent the ability of an animator, it polishes the animation and makes it look more professional.

Overall this animation appears to be successful because it uses the 12 priniciples and body language to bring a cube to life.

Done