Sofa Scene In The Jungle..

This week was very challenging.. I worked very hard to MEET MY DEADLINE of finishing the jungle scene by the end of this week. The reason i had to finish it this week is because there is still LOADS and LOADS and LOADS of animating to be done for the temple scene. BAD TIMES. The end of this week i animated the start of the jungle scene. I have already completed the end and the middle of the scene... !WONK I SDRAWKCAB but the reason i started with the end first was to make my life easier. Because the majority of it was a run cycle i thought it would be a good start to get into the swing of the jungle scene and give me a good foundation to complete the rest BISH BASH BOSH.

The begining part of the animation which i completed this week!! GOOD TIMES. Is the scene where the guy wakes up all startled and is shocked to find himself in the jungle and jumps off the sofa.

I started of by animating the guy slowly waking up and then startled by quickly looking around at his surroundings:

The next challenging thing was to get the weighting right of the character as he lifts himself off the sofa. The hardest thing of this animation was his hands. Because the way the character had been rigged.. if you moved anypart of his torso then his hands would move aswell. But to animate the guy climbing off the sofa i had to keep his hands still on the sofa. So a lot of keying had to be done on his hands to make sure they were kept still as the rest of his body moved:

The next part of the animation is of the guy looking down at the piece of paper that had fallen of his chest as he got up off the sofa. As he sees this he then runs into the depths of the jungle and thats where the rest of the animation begins: