BREAKDOWN POSES

The breakdown poses has to be as perfect as key poses because breakdown poses decide the direction of the flow of the entire animation.

I was really crazy doing this exercise as always I enjoy animation. I stepped little further actually and made this animation little complicated. I could have finished it with some simple breakdown poses.

This body mechanic rig was really hard to handle specially when you are new to Maya. It has very loose skinned "Nurbs & curves". if you choose wrong curve you may break its entire body in second. At some point, that was helpful too to create perfect poses. I tried what else can be done.

I think I have added many in-betweens to come back to given "Key Pose", LOL. Yes there are plugins to use. But generally, animation takes lots of time but if you have time, then imagination has no limit and we can explore multiple ideas.