Extended Practice: Animating Scene 2

The next scene following a POV shot of the drunk driver, was him walking along the city, to reiterate his mental state. I began with redoing a walk cycle for my new character, and doing it in DUIK as this was advised to me during the feedback of my crit. I found that animating the legs first, to be way more fulfilling than rigging the whole body first, and for the first time ever, I was happy with the walk. I did think it was a bit bouncy, but it was much easier to control and edit this way, but rigging the legs first.

 To make the walk better, I added pupper pins to the feet as well, and animated them so that there was more of a 'slap' when the foot hits the ground and curve when he bends it to take the next step. I really like this walk cycle, so I began to experiment with a drunk walk which I knew would be quite tricky.

With this walk, I made sure the strides were slower and wider. I wanted him to lean back at times as if off balance as if someone drunk would be. But I didn't want him to be falling over the place too much as people who usually are caught drink driving are people who have not drank tons and tons, but have drank enough yet still think they can drive. If I animated him as if he was extremely intoxicated then it would come across as silly, as he obviously wouldn't be able to even operate a car, let alone drive one. 

I also added a bottle of beer in his arm as suggested in the crit, but also to reiterate to the audience that he has been and still is drinking.

I then added a background to see how the walk would look against a backdrop, along with a camera following the character and a bit of blurriness and I am happy with the progress. It much better than my previous attempts, so I was happy to develop the scene further.

I decided to create a completely new backdrop for this scene which was very fun to make. I think that there is a lot more depth to this scene in comparison to what I presented so I hope that my peers are much happier with it. I also made sure that the colours of the character and the building contrasted each other so that the audience could see exactly where the character is and what he is doing! 

And this is the walk with the new background. I like this a lot but I feel like there could be some blurriness and camera panning to emphasise the drunken feel even more. But even as it is, I would be happy to show to the class.

This is the walk cycle with some blurriness and camera panning. I will again, ask my peers and teachers what they think of the two and make amendments.