Storyboard

This is my Storyboard for my animation.... changed from my original idea but i think this should work better... i hope....

Will have it that when he is clicked on, the camera will jump to a close up of the woman (side view) before she passes him so that I can avoid the complication of which posittion the guy is in when he is clicked on.
eg. if my animation triggered by the click starts with him with his right leg forwards and his head tilted back, then when viewer clicks on him when his right leg is behind or his head leaning forwords, it would just jump from one fram to another and have no smooth animation so with the camera changing first, that body posittioning is no longer a problem.



Here is a clip of an embarrassing baseball player falling after confidently running to 1st base. I specially like that he felt quite confident and relaxed about running to 1st base and the unexpected fall he had. Very similar to what I want to have happen in my own animation and this is a cid that could deffinately help towards my animated fall.


Can't remember where its from... Britain's got talent or somthing like that... anyway..
This is very close to how I want my character to fall over then bin... basically having him hit his face first and his legs arch over his back so this is very helpfull to me... and very painfull for him.

Background

This is the background that I'm going to be using for my animation. I am going to have the camera zoomed and focussed on the character and have it panning across as he is walking.

Interactive Cycle

Here is the character I thought of for the cycle.... tried to keep it simple so nothing to complex :]

This is just a sketch showing the way he walks... supposed to be all cool, confident and relaxed.



This is mainly where I got my character idea from....
It's not too complicated and I like that his entire body is just one long line instead of curves and shaped to show different parts of his body.
Still I wanted a bit more than just a line and a face for my character and since i like big, baggy clothes I desided to give my charater those clothes aswel and the had and sun glasses as a cool look.


This is the 'Mr. Soft Advert'. Looking at his walk cuase he has a really confident/relaxed walk... not quite what I'm looking for but definately elements I can add to mine ^^

1st Animation: Walk Cycle

This is the first walk cycle I've done however everything (the feet in different positions as symbols) was provided by my teacher so I just had to place them in position and repeat.
It came out squashed together but please ignore that :]


Here are some ideas I had for the character that I was going to use for my own walk cycle...

Wanted to exagerate the way our spine's are shaped, pushing his hips far forwards.


This one Just wanted to have more of a cartoony cute walk to it....


Then played Prototype and liked the whole serious, dangerous walk he had so wanted to try that out for myself :]



This is my Walk Cycle..... (if you'd call it that)... i prefere limp cycle :\
Came out soooooo different to what I aimed for :(. but failures are lessons I guess...

THE BEGINNING OF FLASH ANIMATION!

Just started my new project where I will be using Flash Animations.... :]
I'll just be uploading and keeping track of my work that I create in Flash, on here.