Sumo Digital Rising Star 2018 - Games Animation Finalist
This is my submission for Sumo Digital Rising Star 2018. I was a finalist in the Games Animation category. We were to create four animations, which looped individually and seamlessly connected together. These were an idle, a power-up, a release and a recovery. I decided to animate a drunk character who decides to take a swing at an unseen (probably innocent) aggressor. I first gathered video-reference of myself and then created storyboards of the 'key-poses' I wanted to capture, before animating inside 3DS Max using a pose-to-pose workflow.
Below is a video render of the entire 'loop-able' animation sequence, presented twice to show its looping nature. This is followed by a video render presenting each stage of the animation in isolation.
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Rig courtesy of P. Starostin, retrieved from: http://www.11secondclub.com/resources
