So! Got the sleeves on him now. It ended up being a mix of inbetweening, straight ahead and gut feel to make it work.
I started to touch the hands and getting the amount of drag in them that i want. I only spend about 10mins putting down a few lines, mainly for the backside if the hand to have a reference point when I have to actually draw the hands.
First pass on the arms and I think it turned out well. I had a little trouble with the arc and also the spacing of his left arm and wrist and had to uneven the left arm cycle in comparison to the right. Meaning that the up poses are not identital (reversed angle though) anymore. The reason why I chose to do this, is that I needed the room to actually ease his hand and arm in to the extreme pose.
Next step will be to put the design of the arms on top of this skeleton and get into the overlapping of the sleeves and successive breaking of his joints. This will hopefully be done today so that I will have tomorrow to put on his face, give him a butterfly, a scissor in his belt, add some flimsy chest cloth and finally do the cloth covering his hip and upper thies!! Busy day tomorrow it would seem.
The assignment I am currently doing is a walkcycle. The timing is as I want it now and not too many things need a bit of tweeking before I can move along and do the arms and head.A fix on a small spacing issue with his right leg towards the passing pose, a clarification of the arc of his right foot as it pushes off and some care to the left heel on the up pose, this combined should make me happy! The walk should be done end of this week.
Long days ahead with this one!
Here is a link to a version in a higher resolution : http://www.vimeo.com/2759414
This is where I'll leave the scene. I learned more than I hoped for from this exercise and I am already eager to take on my next assignment... a character walk!
Check out the full-screen version here : http://vimeo.com/2583663
Enjoy, and feel free to leave a comment or questions
Frederik
This is where my scene is at the moment. There has been some changes and it has helped shape the scene up. I am going to spend tomorrow finishing up the rest. I am fairly suprised how fast the animation goes by when having a solid base of roughed out main action. I am having a great time putting all the fun little gestures in now that will make the scene come alive!
