In today’s lesson with Matt after we went through each others work and peer assessed it, Matt gave us time to improve our animations. From the feedback I got, I was told that the lamp hangs in the air for a while at the end of the animation so I went and I changed a couple of key frames to make the lamp look like it comes down on a clean landing. However I still need to exaggerate the landing by moving the lamps head because at the moment the lamp head is just still as it lands which isn’t the most realistic thing.
Here is the updated animation!
and here is the old animation.
As you can see at the end of the old animation, the last part of the lamps jump stutters for a second as it hangs in the air which I didn’t like and the person giving me feedback also noticed. So when I got the time from Matt that is the part that I instantly went to so I could change it and make it look better.
Now to improve this further, I can add more exaggeration at the end of the overall animation by squishing the lamp down further than what I have and also adding in the head nod.
I can even improve the animation further at the beginning as my lamp only crouches. This is anticipation but to make it look better, I can add in a little wiggle so the lamp looks like it is actually preparing for a jump.
Next Gen Work 