A friend from the 11secondclub sent me a link to an Animator's site by the name of KC Roeyer.  On it was this neat little gymnastics test he did with a cylinder that had a pivot point in the center.  I thought I'd give it a shot!  I ended up not planning it's bones out well (I'm not sure how KC had it done) but it was quite a chore to get it spinning in the air correctly.  Hopefully there's a shortcut out there to make animating flips easier!  In the meantime here is my attempt:
It's cool how after posting it up I want to fix so many things haha.  Maybe tomorrow.  I tried doing this all the way through without looking back at the original as reference.  If interested you can see KC Roeyer's test here:
KC Roeyer's Gymnastics Test
 
Great test man...
ReplyDeleteall the fundamentals of animation can be used in the making of it....
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