This week we were tasked with creating a short story board for a jumping flour sack sequence. I drew mine out on post it notes. I wanted my flour sack to open the sequence by tapping his foot on the ground, and finish with a pose where the “arms” would look like muscle flexing. I also watched this video to better understand staging.
I also found this video on how to use the camera sequencing tool in maya incredibly helpful! I watched and paused to copy each step, which worked well.
I took this assignment as an opportunity to learn how to pose cameras and create camera sequences. I enjoyed this aspect, and pictured are my notes taken at the time- I wrote down how long I would like each camera shot to last in frames before creating the shot. This was to save time when entering values in the options box as I created the shots.
The finished playblast is below. I was happy with how it turned out. I would definitely like to revisit this scene in the future to add more aspects to the animation, also I feel that in the last shot, I panned the camera up too quickly, and the viewer can’t really see the final pose. However this was a fun exercise in working with camera angles.
Rebecca Feeney MA Animation 