Sprint 1

For this sprint I started out with the concept sketches for both the pogo leg and the shotgun leg. Luckily I was able to work on this during class so I could quickly check in with my designer after each iteration and change until I ended up with the sketches above and below. I had a little bit of a hard time picturing the idea my designer had in mind for both of these legs but I made sure to check in regularly do I didn't get too far into the rendering process without the right look we wanted and it worked out well for me.

After I had both sketches done I moved onto the final rendered versions of each leg which you can see on the left side of both images above. With all of the preplanning and revisions that went into the sketches for these I was pretty confident in my ability to make the renderings look just right. The only difficult part about this process was keeping in mind that these drawings were going to have to be rigged in the future so I had to think a lot about which layers needed to be separate in order to move properly and where I should extend each layer to to account for movement of other layers. In the end I only went back to fix one thing once I got into rigging and realized what needed to be changed so I count that as a success.  

Once all the drawings were done I moved on to rigging them to get ready for animation. In order to make these 2d rigs I used a program called Moho which I have never used before. It had a bit of a learning curve to try to learn to rig a 2d model especially with the specific movements I need for this project. I think I did pretty good for my first attempt at this program and one of my first attempts at rigging in general. Luckily I am the only person who is going to be animating with either of these rigs so I can compensate for my lack of rigging knowledge with my animation skills.  

I think overall this is a slower start to a sprint than I would normally like. During this sprint I also took or found a bunch of reference video for my animations. I only had cards for 7 days of this sprint and the rigging took me a little longer than I would have liked but I think I have created a good base that so I can hit the ground running for the next sprint.