Update: More in-betweens

So after talking to the professor, I've decided to make the lift from a profile angle to show how weight and balance seem to work. I still need to enhance the character's emotions as he checks out a woman at the gym right before fixing his belt and lifting the bar.

Final Animation with in-betweens...

I added a few more poses for this animation. I plan on having him walk over to the bar, which is why there is a huge gap in between two frames. I also need to tweak some of the motions when the character is flexing to make him look more hyped.

Final animation idea

I've been thinking about this for a while. As I was doing my usual workout today, I noticed this overly buff guy doing deadlifts. As he was doing his sets, I thought it was a perfect thing to animate as far as weight, expressions, and follow-through with the hands.

So this is my animation ideas:
- Starts off with really buff dude with small legs walking towards the bar and weights
- Looks at his hands, anticipation before clapping and rubbing hands together
- Raises hands in anticipation before quickly grabbing the bar
- Body moves forward a little with anticipation before quickly pulling up the bar
- As he pulls the bar, he struggles as his expression scrunches like a reaction after eating a lemon, steps a little to the side
- He then drops the bar, stumbles back a little
- Gives a sigh, poses, and turns around




*Note* Those of you who don't know what a deadlift is, here's a video:

The grieving process....

So it was down to the wire and during the last half hour, I tried to submit my project to the 11 second club. There was something wrong with the encoding so I checked my file again. Then I renamed it and rerendered it as a mpeg-4 file. Then when I submitted it again to the website (keep in mind there was only about 15 minutes left til the competition was over), after 5 minutes of waiting, my file was rejected again due to it's file size. So I compressed it and re-rendered with 5 minutes left. Filled out that stupid form once again and resubmitted. It was still uploading as the time expired. The end result: 80 hours of focus and dedication for an 11-second animation ended up NOT being up for submission. FUCK (pardon my French)

After I threw a couple tantrums, swore quite a bit, spent Halloween bitter as hell, and went home, I thought about how ridiculous it was that I spent sleepless nights only to have my animation not submitted. Not only that, it wasn't even MAYA that gave me this problem.


Now that I calmed down a little, I present to you the animation that never was...