Weight lift

Idea fase, simple idea, Finn walks and stumble upon a rock in his path, he thinks for a moment and decides to move it out of the way. He lifts it up and tries to throw it out of the path, but the ball/rock is too heavy and falls straight down onto the path again. 

                                           Block

Animated walk frame by frame before animated with pose by pose when I did the lift.

On the walk I started out by figuring how many steps I wanted him to take before he got to the rock, and then I moved him approximately the distance away from the rock. After that I made a simple walk, starting with the feet, then animated the arms and ended up with the hips, spine and head. Later on after I blocked out the lift I went back and fixed what needed fixing on the rough walk.

With the lift I began blocking in the key poses without thinking on the timing. After moving him into each position I moved the keys to different frames and kept looking on the animation and moving the keys until I got the timing down. Then I could fill in the details between the key poses and get a smoother animation. 


 Going into rough is always tricky, and I like to often block with auto key and don't do step key, I did do step key in this case, but I'd rather not normally.  After I gotten down the main movements I started on the feet and hands (fingers) to make it look slightly more realistic, and I also added some hip movements and a minimum of shoulder moments. The ball I animated by itself and didn't link it to the hands, I find it better to have it work then having a small change for something glitching up because I wanted to go the quick easy route. The rest of the time I spent on making small tweaks, but left most of the initial animation alone.