Freelance Week 18 Character Turntables

Now that I had all the other animations completed I moved onto creating the character turntables to finish off my work. I first start with the turntable with just Desy's model which would act as a basis for the second animation. I decided to recreate the poses of Desy holding the ball under his arm for this animation as its a very simple pose that incorporates another prop in a very simple way that being the old football. The actual animating of the turn table was very simple as the only movement was the player and platform coming down, spinning and the player slightly bending his knees up and down for some extra movement. I exported this animation in a .tiff format as this file format combined with the sky sphere's exposure being removed cuts out the character just like a green screen except this way I'm saving the Organizer a large amount of headache cutting out each and every frame as seen in the images attached in this post.

For the second turntable I again used the same pose for the old player and I used the ball under the girl player's foot for her pose as again it is a very simple pose. I also added the trophy to the base of the old player just so the prop had some use in the animations. I created the same turntable for the old player however I had the girl player spin the opposite direction which makes the animation more aesthetically pleasing. I encountered a few problems in this animation for example, the RAM usage in Maya was so high that it eventually ran out of memory and Maya began to run slower unfortunately I couldn't find anyway to fix this, also initially the girls left arm was more forward facing but I moved it back to be at her side as I thought it looked better however when playing the animation the arm would move back out so when I delete the key frame to start from scratch I found out that multiple component in the girls model stored the key frames so I had to go through each component to delete the frames which was time consuming. Eventually after I fixed all this I got the animation I was happy with and sent it to the organizer.

When the Organizer sent feed back she asked that I remove the trophy from the girls hand as it looked awkward in the animation so I removed it which was the better decision.