Tuesday, 17 February 2015

Applied Animation: The Model Part 2

In last weeks modelling session I moved on to adding the body of my character to my armature. This was exciting stuff.

The next part of making my model involved padding out the middle section of the frame in order to reduce the amount of weight of the overall model to prevent it from toppling over when the Plasticine was added. I literally taped newsprint to the poor guy.

Then came the most fun bit; bringing my character to life with Plasticine. I really enjoyed this part and I feel that it has been the best part of model making so far. However, I did find that I got very frustrated towards the end of the day with my model, as it takes a lot of time to achieve the shapes that you want. Having said this, Plasticine is a great material to work with and I found that it was very easy to manipulate once I got the hang of it. I'd used Plasticine before when I was taking a foundation course, yet I never managed to achieve what I did in the first few hours of this session and I was really pleased with my progress and how well I used the material.


Once I had completed the body of my character it was time for clothes. I was really worried about the hood of my character as I thought that it would be too heavy for my model, however, it wasn't and I'm really glad that I managed to create the character exactly as I wanted him. I am, overall, extremely pleased with my finished outcome and I am impressed with how quickly I have learnt the skills required to do this. 



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