Armature Exercise 1 Sit-Stand up-Look around-Sit

The first exercise of armature is to make it sit, then stand up, look around and sit back again. We aimed to characterised the armature by consider of the ages, genders, personalities and physical abilities...

Reference video and observation 

Here is a referenced video that performed by my little sister. She acted quite unnatural but it's good enough for me to translate the movement onto the armature. 

From her movement, I can see she's kind relax at the beginning as her back leaned forward and her legs were kicking around. And then, she stood up quickly and shakes the head rapidly. It did not take long for her to stand up because she's young and actively. one thing I noticed from the observation is that when she's standing up, her arms rocked forward because of the dynamics. It also demonstrated the age effects to the behaviours as she's not mature enough to control the body. Finally, when she sat down, her back was straightly and putted her both hands on the knees, her legs closed tightly. All this movement has suggested that she's shy and slight embracing to act in front of the camera.

Translation and Animating 

Armature Exercise 1 Links https://vimeo.com/202738636

There are massive differences between the observation and actual animating. My final armature does not look like the reference video at all because of a number of reasons. First of all, I tried to make her two legs kick up to show the energetic, but  the armature fell down the chair once his feet leave the floor. It was really irritated that I could not balance the character. 

Therefore, I gave up the idea of making her energetic, and focus on shyness. Well, this time it looks pretty good and characterize. 

For improvement, I had a solution to make the armature's leg kick up. I could lift one leg up and stick the other one on the table with magnet. In this way, the armature won't fall over again and she can also show the personality as well, two birds with one stone!