Week 2: Animating a Character

The tutorial is starting to get interesting. Today we learned making movement of a character on flash. We made a character walking just like the ones we have seen on the other famous animations.

These are the four principles of walking:

1. Contact
2. Down
3. Passing
4. Up

These can be seen better if the animation is focus on the legs. if the legs is animated perfectly then all the other parts will have no trouble animating. For the other parts, all that we have to focus on is the posture of the movement such as its hands. Further explanation can be found in the animator's survival kit.

This is the one I did during tutorial. It was not so great but it explains. My apologies for the length of the video.