Week 8: Start of Animation

I finished the rigs for the characters but I have to fix the proportions for two of them so they fit with the cop. I could just fix the cop's proportions, but his rig is complex and it'll be easier to do the stick and the skateboard. I'll bring the cop into the town just to get an idea of how the scaling of the town should be. After that, I'll start animating the motion paths of the two vehicles. Once the motions are done, I'll bring in the characters and start animating their actions. I'll probably do the simpler animations first, which is when the stick and skateboard are in their car doing their little motions with the glovebox, the candy eating and their little hand/eye motions. That should be simple. After that, I'll work on the primary scene, which includes some walk cycles, various parent constraints with the candy box and particle effects with smoke from caughing and car speeding off. Another sequence I want to add is a dance sequence with the cop. That'll be somewhat simple and may even be animated in a seperate file just for the black background. Here's some pics of the rigs.