Assignment 6: Headturn

This assignment, despite looking simple, it was pretty challenging. I still believe the flour sack assignment was more challenging (for me) to this one. But that is going to vary from person to person, since the flour sack assignment had much more freedom, you can get as complex as you want, so you can end up getting too ambitious with the animation. But for this one, it's just a headturn, so there's not a lot of freedom or really much more you can do other than a headturn.

I actually think I did a good job at drawing Benson from Regular Show. Then again, the character design is very simple, so it's hard to mess up the facial features.

As seen from this original drawing, I think I did a good job at showing it's actually Benson from Regular Show. Regarding the actual animation of the headturn. I think I did a good job at making it look somewhat smooth, but at the end there is an abrupt movement in which I could've added a couple more frames in between to make the last movement smoother. Additionally, I could've added a blink to show more emotion because it looks a bit robotic.

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Introduction

I started watching anime around Fall-Winter of 2020 and I really fell in love with how much emotion a series of drawings could be conveyed to the watcher. My first anime which was "Violet Evergarden" was such a masterpiece. The music, the voice acting, the animation, the art, etc. I was very surprised at the fact that this anime was able to make me cry so I decided to keep watching more and I stumbled upon animes that were less drama driven like Violet Evergarden, instead focusing more on action, superpowers, perhaps comedy, but also serious shows with dark stories like Attack on Titan. As of right now, my current top 10 animes are: 1. Vinland Saga (by Wit Studio) 2. Demon Slayer (by Ufotable) which is my favorite studio mainly because of how good and consistent every show is from this studio, they always delivers quality even if the source material isn't good, it is always a treat for the eyes. 3. Fate Zero (by Ufotable) 4. Attack on Titan (by Wit Studio) 5. My Hero Ac...

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Assignment 8: Walk Cycle

This was a fairly straightforward assignment. I actually think this one was easier than the weight assignment, despite me getting a lower score on this one. But the reason for that is because I spent way less time on this assignment. I spent considerable more time on the weight assignment. The reason as to why I think this assignment was easier is because you can look up references to guide you while drawing each frame. For example: I followed this guide, and my animation came out fairly smooth, the only inconsistencies were in the drawings but I think I did a good job with the animation. To make this better, I should've added a background. I was actually thinking of drawing some buildings in the back and some cars passing on the road to demonstrate even better the walk cycle. Overall, I still think I did a pretty decent job and in my opinion it looks smooth.

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