Fail

I don't feel like and animator at all this week. Mainly because everything I touched this past weekend fell completely apart - and all I had to do was a "simple" walk cycle.

Seriously, I question whether I can do this now or not.

So, all I had to do was animate the Astronaut walking onto the train, then turn, and walk off. Simple, huh? Not for me. I just could not get it to look right. I'm not sure how many hourse I put in on it, but it was not enough. I'd start and restart this mess and it just never worked. I even took a day off and came back to it. The movements were all wrong, the shape of the character was all wrong. Everything was all wrong.

I failed, and was freaking out about it.

But, a client is never going to accept that you can't do what they want you to do. Sometimes you have to go around where you had intended and come up with something new. Well, Monday night was when I came up with the "something new." I cut the shot into three smaller shots - the Astronaut walking onto the train, the Astronaut pausing, and the Astronaut walking into the train. They are all close ups, except where he is standing which avoids me animating the walk cycle.

But I'm still not happy with it.

The timing is not right, I don't quite like the last shot in the sequence, and it looks rough. BUT - I do like the door closing the way it does. It says something to me about the previous part of the film being "closed off" or "being over." Hopefully, others will see that too.

We'll find out. Stay tuned...