The Knight Animation Project (WIP)

This project was cre­ated many years ago for my stu­dents of ani­ma­tion.  It was designed to cre­ate spe­cific sit­u­a­tions to animate.

1. Step­ping up on some­thing.
2. Walk­ing in a straight line.
3. Illus­trat­ing bal­ance.
4. Step­ping down.
5. Walk­ing up stairs.
6. Change of pace on plat­form.
7. Jump­ing to a lower ele­va­tion.
8. Mov­ing past and object already ani­mated to con­trol tim­ing.
9. Make an attempt to remove sword.

Mike Duhatscheck and I worked together to cre­ate the lit­tle green knight char­ac­ter.  He designed and mod­eled the char­ac­ter. I rigged it. We had fun using this char­ac­ter in class for sev­eral years and feel that there is more in store for our lit­tle green knight than mov­ing through an obsta­cle course.

I have decided to cre­ate a few new ani­ma­tions with him.  One being the old assign­ment and another that I will reveal in another post. The fol­low­ing exam­ple is obvi­ously in the process of being refined and will be final­ized and pol­ished off soon.

Mike and I  are also in dis­cus­sions about rework­ing him and devel­op­ing new char­ac­ters for a game.  How much fun will that be… huh?!  I am really look­ing for­ward to work­ing with Mike again on some­thing that was a good con­cept from the begin.

Craig