Kickstart My Heart

This week really showed me how we are slowly ramping up the complexity in the shots we are doing week to week.  For example I took two pictures from Maya comparing my graph editor from my week2 bouncing ball assignment and my week 7 Zorro assignment.

 Very clear to read this one! Green line is the vertical motion showing the up/down movement of the ball. Blue shows the horizontal or momentum of the ball slowly easing down over time. Finally the red line just shows the general rotation of the ball. Well that's not so bad at all! Animation is easy! ^_^

What is this I don't even....

I must say I liked the increase in difficulty and am really looking forward to my critique this week.



I decided to go with simple again this week and decided to make my pendulum just do a slight Z action. At that point it became obvious my pendulum needed to be Zorro (Duh!). Also Zorro always gets away on horse so I had to add a horse (Duh!). Finally I added a little cheesy fire effect to sort of replicate the scene in Mask of Zorro where he lights the hillside on fire in a giant Z.

Planning....

Fairly simple planning.

By the time I got to the Z idea I had gone through about 3 Ideas. The first was just to move the pendulum from left to right which was oh so boring. Second I was going to try and have him swatting at a fly, problem with that idea was.... well I'm not really sure what happened I kind of just wanted to put a bit more story or emotion into my shot. Soooooo I came up with a whole dance routine between two different pendulums dancing to some salsa music. The idea was great it had some emotion some fun and interesting ideas, however I quickly realized to get the types of motion and quality I would require from myself that this project would take at least 2 weeks to plan and execute properly. So I scrapped in favor of my simple Z.

Next week we get to some tail action!