Animation Workshop Feedback - AK #2a (2023)

[Music] all right new shot here with reference no sound this is early blocking here or just blocking focusing on posing I like it definitely a fan of just that elongated moment there a nice pose for sure that's all clear too careful on like passing poses like this where I like this a lot we're kind of missing it where I think you can rotate that character around a bit more and even because of the color silhouette you can even have that elbow in front of the body but you're meaning like the shoulder area chest area stomach and then your your arm bends over there kind of the way I have it here totally work was that like that that hand cuz that way it's not just o like that would be a nice telegraphing of what he's about to do so imagine that hand is here and then it grabs or goes for the saxophone here I will probably lower it just a bit more to to get some negative space there it's a bit too compressed for me and then this is going to be tricky like once you are in spline mode I think how you go back and then immediately shoot forward that's going to be a fairly jarring cuz your your timing is fairly realistic not saying for the real more naturalistic type of cartoon animation with some push poses but it's nothing crazy so but here you're going to have a a very strong oh what is this ah should I yes which I like in terms of contrast but watch out it it's very strong you're going to need one or two more break Downs there to kind of soften that I would separate these again in terms of kind of avoiding tangents same thing here just that connection on the thumbs here just bring one arm lower one stays up there and even that could work go o no might be a bit fast but it could work it could work I'm not not ruling anything out yet I'm a fan of this just because with the the Tilt you're taking the reference in pushing it and I like all the posing the line of action the asymmetry but then we get to this and it's a bit of the dreaded W pose it's very even though there's a change here it's it's fairly mirrored and even here and I I would have on even on that drop here instead of Landing here already I would already have a turn so that your lowest position is already getting into this so that we have more of a a 3/4 asymmetrical view versus that's again very mirrored so if he goes it could be like what what you doing ref going ah okay it's C down bummer okay so you can still have a where this is more like maybe up and maybe have a little gesture like ah like a like a grabbing and then that's just could be that low it could even be just only one like I wish and then he can just snap one arm back on his way down to here that's where he rests a bit and then he goes into this which is fine I like that surprise movement here which could work it's crazy in terms of the face we covering the face I I was wondering what if he kind of shows up like with an arc there instead of straight up but it's not too bad cuz I like the slight twist a little bit I think that helps and here I don't I don't know for this it's also very subjective I don't mind the symmetrical nature here and the mirroring of posing there's just something where it's like oo don't mind even though we're a bit close here so you probably have a slight turn in his spine so this arm is a bit a bit uh higher That Elbow only so that to me it seems like or you can do the opposite maybe this way the way he will grab it how does he grab it it goes this way yeah to me instead of going straight up because it's funny to go straight up like this where it just kind of appears the way you have it in your reference but we don't quite see the bend that you have in your body where it's like this like ooh and it's a tricky thing when you have something rotated to or away from camera in a such a flat pose so you might consider something where that is the reveal but by the time he's there what if he took a step and I mean he can also be here and have a bit of a oh what's over there pose POS you can also have a bit of a side pose where maybe here we can see only one leg but he's a bit more bent over where you have a nicer Arc and then we can have arms here even if it's just a little bit but even if just a tiny bit so we can bring that elbow a bit higher that could work this one watch out this is a bit tricky given that it's hidden and the bend is so straight I would try to find something where we're a bit more bent like that and even here bent like this and even that gets a bit muddy in terms of the silhouette so I what is he doing he goes up straight into this so that's a good one so to me it's just these two poses where you want to show the structure of the arms a bit more even here why not just Bend It Like Beckham and if one arm is covered by this I understand but one will be just bit cleaner that's fine of course I have to laugh at this because I am immature he crack me up and then his last little oh this could even have a little bit of a shoulder drop but uh-oh yeah I think that works you might also instead of a forward move it couldi a stop and then imagine he goes if I play this backwards he goes uhoh like goes a bit backwards and down that's like a super you know subjective piggy thing here but that could be something but other than that as you were asking about the posing I think this is all very very cool again picky things like you could have the the stick here I'm losing my English the um cane maybe here a so it doesn't have a tangent but it also kind of has uh a a line that is diagonal towards this like everything goes back to to this like you imagine you can even bend the head down a bit more if you want to exaggerate it more so so you have the cane everything is pointing and going up to the head which goes back into this I do like how it just lets it go yeah and the other poses I talked about yeah I don't know that's kind of that hope that helps this is really fun I can't wait to see this plan out and that's it for me thanks all right there's an email you can sign up you can start whenever you want you can submit whenever you want you get 16 submissions either way a like And subscribe would be awesome all right thank you w