Grizzle Dawn

Hello, Trident is here.

Okey, now I am back to 3D Animation topic.

Now, I would like to talk about "Animation", which is the most important part of the assignment.

For the past few weeks, I watched a lot of Wipeout, American Ninja Warrior and some parkour videos. Because I want to understand how human body moves when they perform certain actions. 

For example, a person is jumping from first floor to ground floor. Normally there are two types of people, one is people without parkour training and vice versa. For those who got training ,they normally will bend their legs lower while landing and place their hands back. Those who didn't, they normally will flap hands and shake legs before landing.

I also noticed there is a delay while we are jumping. Especially when we jump high enough to stay in the air, which the staying is kind of delay. For animation, we can't actually just set two points to make your character jump, because that will absolutely look very strange. So we can add the "delay" that should happen during jumping, just to make it looks realistic. 

Same goes to punching and running, there is always a delay after you reaching the extreme point of the movement and revert back to its coming path. Therefore, I also looked on some books about anatomy, the study of human body, to understand how body muscle looks like. More importantly is what's the limitation of a human muscle can do. Like biceps and triceps, how far can they stretched. For legs and hands, how well they can bend and perform a curve actions. 

It is fun to research on this kind of stuff, because the more you know, the more you will be surprised by our human body. The variety of stuff that human can do is way far beyond to discover till its end. Meaning, there is endless possibilities and ways for a human body to perform different kinds of actions. For example, in China, there are a lot of circus performers, who can bend their body very well, resulting to look like a ball. No joke, I was very impressed and disgusted at the same time. Won't you think our human body is absolutely marvelous and mysterious? Anyway, it is still cool to see how far human body develop to.

So that's all for this time. Once again, Gracie and Adios~