To research animation I found some walk cycles on YouTube to study. I found this helpful to see the keyframes others had used in their animations and to get a sense of animation principles used in each one and the complexity of the sequences. It was at this point that I chose to do a walk, jump and wave for my action sequences as these were quite universal and I thought they could have also applied to my model I created last term if I would have been able to use it in this project. Here are some of the videos I watched for research into action sequences.
For each of the animations that I chose to do I first started by creating a basic storyboard of the keyframes for each of the animations to work from. I did 6 keyframes for each of these storyboard sketches to make sure I had a sufficient plan for each of my animations before I got started with creating them. This was a really effective exercise as it made making my animations much smoother and helped me to create them more efficiently as I knew what I wanted to do within them. I think the research I did into sequences on YouTube also helped me particularly on the walk cycle to add some personality and emotion to the sequence. Below are the 3 storyboard sketches that I created.
