Simple Block-In Animation

Here's a block-in of a simple jump and climb animation I did today. The goal was to do something more elaborate than a walk or run cycle but nothing so complicated I'd get all tangled up and quit in frustration. It was just going to be a quick jump from a hang (like you see in a game) but I decided to make it a little mini-movie after I got going. I believe I'm getting more fluent in my tools, because I had to shuffle time, add stuff at the beginning after I got the main thing done, then add stuff back at the end. There was a lot of compression and decompression of time - rescaling and adjusting the major beats. While it was challenging to do all that stuff, I never felt overwhelmed or like I wanted to just throw my hands up in the air in frustration. The camera stuff was something I just threw on after the fact (and found it to be quite fun and satisfying to animate). So it's a very rough first pass, and there's a lot of errors all over the place, but I dig it. It's fun to watch and I am now feel more confident in my working methods, which makes me want to keep at this. :)