Mar 22, 2008

"Monkey's Uncle" - Movement Research

Just a small note, i thought you guys would like to see one of the more embarrasing stages of the animation process, where sometimes you have to try to work out exactly what you want to do with the movement in your scenes. these images are for a bit where the monkey is monkey dancing:








These next ones are to help with a bit where the monkey recovers from his backflip, that i needed to pantomime in order to get right:
If youre curious: i filmed myself with my wife's Canon Powershot G9 with the Disney's "Monkey's Uncle" playing in the background, when i got all the footage i needed, i brought the files onto my computer and analysed them back in slomotion and extracted the necessary frames for reference using Media Player Classic (great for that purpose).
I guess we all know who the real monkey is :) As i hit the "publish post" button im fervently hoping that i dont live to regret this post..

1 comment:

Roger said...

Someone had to be first to comment.
I'm looking forward to the product on this one.
Cool idea.