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Animation the character limping

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One of the design goals that I set for myself was to create animation prototypes for my game, this can range from character movement to the animation of the environment, admittedly I have been quite nervous starting this process because I am not very well versed in animation. But never the less I began looking at different youtube tutorials for animation, it was quite hard to find a youtube video that had the right content because a lot of the character animations that were available on youtube had normal walking cycles, but my goal was to have my character walk/ run with a limp, then I found this youtube video of a man walking whilst limping, So I sketched his movements in the video, I think I made about 20 - 30 drawings of the man's movement. Once that was completed I began sketching the movements in procreate, I have been using procreate for the last 2 years but I didn't until very recently that has an animated assist section, how it works is by sketching a layer and adding another layer which creates the illusion of animation. I had a work process when it came to creating the animation, and it goes a bit like this:

1. Sketch the skeleton.

2. Sketch the clothes and how they would interact with the body and air drags.

3. Create a final design of the animaiton

I have to say the animation took me a lot longer than I imagined, I was doing it for 2 hours, that being said it is my first attempt with the animation so maybe that duration will increased over time.

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The final design of the character limping and idle:

Kai Thomas > art video >

Animation the character Jumping

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This process didn't take long as well, at first I sketched the stick figure fo my character jumping, then I sketched how the coat, scarf and hospital gown will interact with the character jumping.

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Here are the sketches that I did, on the left-hand side it s the drawing of the coat, the right-hand side shows the stick figure drawing and the ones in the bottoms shows the scarf drawing

The final design of the character jumping and leaping:

Kai Thomas >

endlessreference . (2012). Walk Limp Young Adult Male: Grid Overlay - Animation Reference Body Mechanics. Available: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AG_eITx8miE. Last accessed 4th Dec 2020.

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