These are the basis of my moving character and the action I have gone through, I used the Animators survival kit for referencing and ideas to help me understand the steps of moving. So far I have found this process very time consuming but easy to follow, I think its a very helpful technique to making sure you get very accurate stages of moving, the only main thought I need to consider when drawing my movement is to make sure I put in inbetween stages and keep my movement continuous and arced for when the character moves, for intense I want his head to be in motion with his body instead of being on the same level through out because I want to show that my character is moving along with exaggeration.
This technique is very helpful because it helps me out with making accurate measured movements and gives clear indication through steps and stages. I found this process time consuming because it required me to think a lot about make precise movements in sequence and flow which happened to slow me down every minute because I had to analyse where the character will place his foot steps, I have had to think about a lot to do with the 12 principles and movement these were ; arcs, secondary motion, easing in and out and exaggeration, in the past I have happened to skip movement so I had to count all the steps to make sure were correct.
I have now solved this problem by plotting out the main points of the characters walk to show the main reaching points then I have filled the gaps using my key frames so when I play it back it back in flip book form it walks the stages as a full flowing movements.
The drawing of the stages took half an hour, If was to do this again I would make sure a varies of different colours for my drawn stages because at times I have gotten lost with drawing the stages of movement due to the close overlapping of my points and similar colours being too close, so my point of continuation was lost which is a result of me taking half an hour to develop a continuous movement.
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