Prior to creating the animation for our final project we were tasked with creating some simple animations to gain more experience both with Maya and animation. One of these animations was a jump. As our characters are still in the process of modelling our lecturer provided us with a fully rigged model to practice with.
The images above shows off both the model and the rig we got to practice with.
We were first tasked with the creating a jumping animation. The first thing we needed to do was to find some type of reference as animating from memory can be extremely difficult. I ended up using this video as a reference:
We were first tasked with the creating a jumping animation. The first thing we needed to do was to find some type of reference as animating from memory can be extremely difficult. I ended up using this video as a reference:
By using this video as a reference I created the golden positions for my animation which can be seen below:
Here is the complete animation.