Wonkey Donkey - Progress.

A slightly bigger post than usual, to bring everyone up to speed with my progress on the song and dance assignment. Step 1 - Blocking The first major issue pointed out from the blocking phase is the characters jig at the end of the shot, just before the kick. We agreed too much may be happening in too small a time frame, so I think I'll end up chopping that segment, in favour of a less active performance. I really wanted to capture the jig performance Hershali gave in our reference filming session, but it looks like I'll have to tone it down a notch. Part 2 - Bridge Dialogue I really enjoyed working on this part. There's still some tweaks to do, generally just polishing curves, getting rid of some "noise". I Wasserstein really surprised how fast this shot came together, in just over six hours worth of work, a personal record for me. I really wanted to push the mouth shapes here, after all, anybodies mouth movements are exaggerated whilst singing, and even though this prt isn't strictly singing, the exaggeration still fits the mood of the piece, doesn't look out of place. Part 3 - Opening Strut Walk cycles. We meet again. I'm still finding walk cycles difficult, I still can't seem to pull of a smooth walk, without it looking slightly jerky in places, perhaps I just need to really polish the curves on the characters leg effectors, I think as the rig is such a leggy, lanky character, any little stray movement seems to be exaggerated. I've also ran in to a spot of trouble regards the legs at the end of the walk, his legs seem to pop for about 4 frames, at round about frame 170. I've inspected the graph editor at this point, and nothing erroneous is showing regards frames, and even if I go in to adjust the frames manually, the legs are locked, almost like the knee joints have vanished. This will take some time to figure out. Other things that need work are details on the hands, particularly the fingers. Just to add the little bit of extra secondary motion.