Assignment No.1: Animation Tests (Sheila)

These are the animation tests for the character, Sheila. I used these test animations to experiment with her personality and the different emotions and actions that will need to be dealt with her character during the creation of the final scene.



The above sequence is a demonstration of Sheila's attitude. As a negative character, who doesn't want anything to do with the antagonist who is hassling her, I needed to test out her reaction to this type of situation. My aim was to make her go from a calm and collected manner to a cold, irritated manner. This test animation does a reasonable job at displaying these emotions and a transition between them. Reference to this will help with communicating her emotions during the creation of the final scene.



The above sequence is a demonstration of Sheila's frustration during the scene. She is frustrated by the other two characters as they ruin her night out and wants nothing more to do with them. I attempted to portray these emotions by having an exhausted and irritated look on her face while shaking her head in shame and sighing apathetically. The only problem with this animation is the way her arm moves as she rests her head on her hand. This is something to be tweaked in the future. This test animation will make for good reference while creating the final scene as many of her movements during the sequence will be similar to this.