This week I blocked the main poses of my character for the beggining of the animation as well as some camera animation with the camera sequencer. At first I had throught about having my character walk to his pose and begin from there but I was having some trouble as michael jackson does not walk normally, it’s more like dance walking, so it was not going very well so I decided to begin directly with the main pose and change to another one, then starts dance walking like in the reference.
Pose 1 Pose 2
This first 300 frames are when he grabs the microphoen and the hat and throws it to the audience, then starts singing. I used anim snap to snap the hat to his head and then to his hand, The microphone isn’t yet parented as I want to finish the animation of the hand and arm so that everything stays in place.
This is the first playblast:
I also set the first 3 shots using the camera sequencer, I had never used it before and it is pretty intuitive, works similiar to premiere pro just less advanced. The cameras are all in place to, but I believe that after all the animation is done all will look better after a tweak in their movement.