Animation Tests!

ANIMATION TESTS

RUN CYCLE

I realized that in order to do a run cycle I need to get Nova's personality down first. I realized that if I worked on the stance first, the run cycle will come to me more naturally because I will have figured out the way she moves in the stance.

While I was testing the run cycle, I wanted to show weight when Nova touches the ground with her leg, making her lean slightly more up straight, and once she pushes off, her body leans forward again. I tried it in the one below, but her body is still leaning forward too much.

STANCE

I started on doing some tests for Nova's run cycle and stance. I have decided to do both, just so I have a variety to show. The first couple of stances didn't quite work out, either there was too much movement and too much going on and looked more like for a fighting game. I looked up "Jotun" the game where I realized that the stances are very minimal. I tried to minimalize the movement, I will have another play around tomorrow and also show the Tutors.

I wanted Nova to constantly be leaning forward to reinforce her curiosity. While I started animating, I wanted to show how heavy the hands are by timing.  

In this one, Nova looks like she's falling asleep while standing, I originally wanted to wanted her head to go down further than her body, almost like her body follows her head.

This one looked too much like a fighting game, the arm movement and legs were too much.

I took this one, and tried to simplify the movement, but I think she's crouching too much in all of the tests. I want to try another test where she's standing up-straight, but just her neck that is leaning forward. 

BIBLIOGRAPHY

I started doing the Bibliography for the game design document yesterday... why did I use so many images?? :(

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