jack in the box animation

I've made quite a few changes to my animation, appreciate any feedback. Thanks for watching!

Problems

I am still having problems with the IK method.  I first set my poses is stepped and then made them spline but I can't seem to track the box in such a way as to make it look like it has weight.  Please help me a little on this.  I am not getting Gimbal lock.  This is just what it is turning out like because the animation is demanding a counter animation on every frame.

Final Check in

Hey dauntless animation students.


For last class, please bring the following.

Finished playblast of your 4th week of the pantomime piece.
My expectations: Finished! The curriculum requires 10hrs of animation per week, so that should have been 40 hrs of animation done on this piece, so no more stepped keys, drifty linear holds. If you aren't sure how areas are holding up, ask a classmate.

Reel for the term. Any improvements you've made to old pieces can go in here (and let me know what you've reworked (text file with your anim)

Final playblast without nurbs curves of the jazz piece. If you guys are amenable, I'd like to compile a cut from both classes to enter into the spring show.

aaron hartline lecture...

hey..how was this?

did any of you animator types go?

Week 14

How does this look??

My blocking this week

I might have more time before class tomorrow to work on it.

Poses before initial blocking

And for a reminder;