Animation Progress: Ring Masters Performance and Turnstyle Pushing

We are finally ready to go and got characters rigged for animating! I have two scenes that I have been mainly working on, the Ring Master's first performance and the basic turnstyle walk cycle.

Little test of the Finn Rig!

None of these have the effects or lighting or textures, so please keep that in mind because those will be added later. Also the cameras aren't in the right spots, this is just basic to show off what I have been doing.

The Turnstyle has a lot going on because its hard to get characters walking in a nice circle, but I figured out a way to keep them from sliding around on the bar and its going really well! Now I gotta polish the characters and make their movements better. This scene will be used in a lot of shots so I will also have to duplicate the scene and have the changes for some of those for it to work.

This is the turn style walk cycle blocking:

The other scene I worked on was the Ring Master's first performance (and maybe the second performance) This is three shots combined into one from our first sequence. I think there is a little downtime where he is just standing there before the lights turn on that might be cut, but thats up to the editors.

The Ring Master's Performance almost finished polish (just waiting on feedback from one of the professors):

This one the magic bubbles are there for my timing, but I did not move them so they are not alligned. I had to change the size of the Ring Master so the bubbles were aligned to the bigger version and not the current one.

There were some issues that we worked through with the rigs (some are still in progress) that took a little time but otherwise everything is working really well! I have been able to get animations working and next I will go through and block in the rest of the shots.