Personally, this personality walk is quite personable.

This last week's assignment was a.. PERSONALITY WALK. So, naturally, I chose the moonwalk. (and yes, I can mooonwalk..) Maybe not as crazy good as MJ, but still..

It was actually quite harder than I thought to create it, and I think it might still be a bit slow, but it's in stepped mode right now and this next week I need to work with spline and make this walk... just glide across the screen. So here's my blocked out version of the moonwalk and also STU posed in exhaustion. Enjoy, and let me know what you think.





oh yeah.. and one more thing. I've decided to start an idea book. You would never guess how many interesting characters or situations I run into working at a department store. Sometimes I just have to laugh to myself, or just inside, otherwise others might get the impression that I've one too many screws missing. ha. But I was just watching "Planet Earth" on tv last night and got so many ideas for characters and short animations. (by the way, that show is ridiculously good, and if you haven't seen it yet, you should. Amazing.) I was explaining/acting out some of the crazy animals and their behaviors to my family and my mom probably explained my personality to a tee when she said "Sarah, you think just like a cartoon."

Maybe, just maybe, I am one.

(or just at heart.)

mmm... Vanilla.

So the past couple of weeks were devoted to learning a vanilla walk cycle.

"Vanilla walk?" you say.

yes, that's right- a vanilla walk. No chocolate chip cookie dough walks or superman.. just a plain ordinary vanilla walk. simple? well..I've heard that if you can get a walk cycle just perfect, you can do just about anything. (hehe.. or something like that.) The walk cycle involves EVERYTHING we've learned thus far and so it was VERY tricky getting this little ball with legs (Ballie) to walk across my screen. (frustrating at times also, especially when I switched from stepped mode, where it would play just the certain poses i keyed in, to spline, or playing normally. Oh man, when I first played it back, Ballie's body parts went flailing about! ha..

I figured it out and was on my way to making a full walk cycle. There's much to be changed with this first walk, but at least I've come to understand how to go about it. It's a good thing, too, because these next couple weeks our assignment is to animate a personality walk. This is going to be a lot of fun! So here's my assignment from the last couple weeks. We also posed STU as "concerned." enjoy!