I was looking for existing animation reference for a different module when i stumbled across a blog done by an animator for Pixar detailing his planning process for the shots he needs to create. It's really nice to see someones process in so much detail from his initial research to thumbnails and even including some of his own reference footage. If there's one thing I'm going to have to get better at its creating my own reference footage. Its tricky to get my ideas about movement and facial expression out of my head without it. As I've been explaining in the previous post I've been trying to find better/quicker ways to thumbnail while getting all of the detail of the posing in. also being able to get the subtlety in is quite hard. I'm getting better though!
Link: http://www.carlosbaena.com/resource/resource_tips_planning.html
Another webpage that talks about workflow is on the animation mentor site. It has a short video talking about two animators from tippett studios workflows and how they are different depending on whats needed in the animation and what is most important but also advises adapting it constantly to help improve how you're going about animation. They also mention that just diving in is probably the worst thing to do... I agree. It has been something that has tripped me up in the past.
http://www.animationmentor.com/tips/jim-brown-brian-mendenhall-tippett/
I've had to abandon the box lifting clip unfortunately due to a pretty rookie mistake during blocking. I'm a little disappointed as it was starting to go quite well but at least I can try and plan a new one out better. I've already started to block a new one in and I've been fairly ambitious, I'm trying to produce a subtle performance displaying a characters sense of loss. Being able to demonstrate emotions without needing to over act or exaggerate hopefully will help show range in my abilities.
Here's the blocking pass for that:
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