Animation Exercises: Peels
Each week we had to do 5 different animation, all based off a concept. Week 1 was Speed poses, Week 2 was Takes, and Week 3 was Peels. A Peel, is when you show a hand or a foot, peeling off of a surface. We were shown lots of examples, but there was always something missing with each new example.... Personality. Every example showed only a hand and an motionless object. No story, no emotion, just a hand and a table or pole. I chose to do something different and add in my own humor. Now the animation of the man in the orange shirt is not the focus of the exercise, the hand is. I just thought that the guys reaction was hilarious when his lip gets touched haha
The next peel I did was mimicked off of me, and my natural habits or ticks. I often touch my face, or more specifically, stroke my beard without even noticing it sometimes. I cant help it, it's just so soft! But I figured I'd want to practice a character touching their own person and see how it went. I could have done more animation on the rest of the body, but never got around to it.
And here we are on the final exercise that I will show. After spending time do hand peels, I wanted to try my hand (pun totally intended) at a foot peel. The original thought was to get across a more shy, or bashful girl, and getting that emotion across with just her feet, but it was just out of my skill level. I was trying to have her swivel on her toe, like she was talking to a crush, but couldn't get it looking right. It made me mad that I had such a clear idea, but couldn't replicate it. But I think it's important to show what I would consider a "failure", so that I can show that I know how to move past it, what I can learn from it.
Well that's pretty much it for this post. I have more things I could show off, but don't want to bore you. Hope to see you again, for my next update!
