Refrence Pictueres!

These were so much fun to take, thank you Emma, you're an excellent poser!

I took more photos than these, but most of them weren’t very good; ether because they involved jumping or crawling. As you can see there’s a definite follow through with our silly jump/raised leg poses and my final idea though. I should definately use a worms eye view for this one.

The Japanese fan girl “Kowai” poses were allot of fun! (which is probably why we took so many) I still can’t quite decide which my favourite is, I like the camera poses at the top, as well as the leaning one on the bottom left. I don’t think I’ll use the leg lift ones though, simply because they are a little too similar to my “what’s under there?” pose.

The "Face-plant-desk-in-despair" troubled by result poses! I think these are all pretty expressive, but the bottom right has to be the best. I think it’s the floppy arm that does it.

Last but not least, here is my pose plan for "whats under there?"

Sketches...

Here are some quick sketches; i did just to get a feel for the poses. This is the one I’m having the most fun with, the fan girls for my "pleased to see" poses
Because fan girls seem to travel in packs i also sketched out some poses grouped together, this makes it easier to see what’s going on, but i would rather concentrate on doing one really good pose, than several not so good ones. I particularly like the second pose in from the right, but it could also be fun to show them holding a camera.

This is just a quick look at how my "troubled by result..." pose would go. The story is that they have just finished an exam that they know they have done terribly in. As you can see i already had a pretty good idea for what i wanted with this one, and just adjusted my sketches slightly to make it a little more effective. 

Some quick Moodboards to get the ball rolling...

At first i was thinking of showing a child worrying about the monster under the bed, but i think it would be more fun if it was an adult (especially an intimidating looking man) adopting the same child’s pose.

“Troubled by result” I think I’m going to have my character sprawled across the desk in despair after handing in their exam, and knowing they failed.

“Pleased to see…” - I had a few ideas for this pose but i think it would be cool to do a crazy fan girl, freaking out a celebrity. (I just really love that picture in the middle!)

Coming soon... some planning and development sketches!

Next up- Task 2, Posing!

“Using your character create a series of 3 still poses demonstrating emotions/ situations.”

We could choose from:

Waiting to start…

Late for…

Whats under there?

Troubled by result

Pleased to see…

surprised

The ICA specifies that it’s important to build an identity and context around your character pose.

The first part of this exercise is obviously the idea development through sketches...

Box and Ball almost finished!

Untitled from Amanda Mongan on Vimeo.

It took me ages to get this thing to upload properly! but here it is. I'm going to add a very simple texture to the ball before i render it, and might make some additional tweaks to the timing if i have time before the hand in. Overall i quite like it. I can definitely see a big improvement from my first attempts anyway!

So i heres my blocked out box and ball Animation. I'v added a little squash and stretch, but I still need to tweak it here and there. I also need to sort out afew issues in the timing.

 I might add an extra bounce before the ball jumps onto the box, for better anticipation. I also need to add in the little celebratory hop my ball does, once it’s up there. All in all thou, i think it’s looking ok.