Character Bio & Breathing Idle

After watching the clip a few times of the scene my group was going to animate i went and created a bio for my character.

Animation Character Bio

Mike Wazowski: Monsters University

Mike is a very intelligent young monster and is very confident in his academic abilities. He is a great dreamer and won’t stop until his dream to work as a professional scarer has become reality. In order to achieve this he will stop at nothing and won’t let anything get in his way. The only thing that holds him back is his practical ability when it comes to scaring. When faced with tense and nerve racking situations he is very easily intimidated by more influential monsters with a better scaring ability. He just simply wants to try his best and impress his fellow monsters, students/academic figures. 

With this complete i went on to creating an idle breathing position for mike which my animation could slot back in to within the scene my group is going to animate. 

I would of liked to of uploaded this video on to this blog as well, but it keeps coming up with an error when uploading the file. I've tried different file types and tried down scaling the size of the video but nothing seems to be working at this moment in time. 

   

Week 1 - The starting point

With this module (animation for games) we started off by going through the key aspects of this assignment and what was expected. I went in to a team with two other students which i get along with really well and know will work as hard as me.

We started off by brainstorming ideas for what kind of animation we could do. A big part of animation came from places such as Disney, Pixar and Dreamworks studios. We had a look at films they had created and others as well. We found a good scene from the lion king which had three characters, one each for all of us but realized that one character wasn't involved as much and we began to make stuff more complicated than it should of been.

After discussing the topic further we changed our minds and went for a scene from the Monsters university film. My assigned animation character is mike and so far I've studied the scene we've chosen to do and tried to see how he holds himself and how he moves about.