MAIN IDEA
The idea is creating a scene where a young girl is performing "Kick Boxing" in front of small audience with complete concentration and dedication.
MY INSPIRATION AND WHY THE ''ATTACK COMBO" ?
I follow Indian traditional dancing style "Bharat Natyam", where God fights against devils. I connect the dance poses with the key poses of fighting like body posture and aggression on face and the same passion for success.
Secondly, I loved the movie "Kungfu Panda". and from that day I watched, I always wanted to make fighting animation. They are cute fighting stars who fights to show their skills and passion for survival.
AIM & OBJECTIVE
Firstly, spreading a message of learning self defense.
I have create solid combo poses and perfect body mechanism keeping in mind the animator’s checklist. Through this entire procedure, I developed my technical skills, practiced the theory of animation from deferent aspects and its possibilities. how to shoot, use reference video, polish and finally achieved the quality that matches with university standards.
STEPS I HAVE FOLLOWED
I followed basic steps to create this animation which followed by a production studio.
1. Shoot
2. Analyze
3. Breakdown dynamic Key poses
4. Block dynamic poses in Maya
5. Animate
6. Voice over/dialogue and Music
7. Final polish
REFERENCES AND RESEARCH AND CG ASSETS
Instagram and Pinterest from where I get inspiration. And "You tube" is the platform where I do my own research and learn through various tutorials. Lets check some videos I really liked, learnt and got inspired.
A just 9 years girl practicing the kick boxing and she is so dedicated and perfect in this video. It was really inspiring.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8wbOjp3gm0
This video was perfect to use it as reference to create key poses.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgxhFiN2m78
I had no idea about boxing Attack Combos. I have downloaded some pictures but just to learn everything about “Kick Boxing“ combo.
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References: This pictures are taken from google just to learn the action poses of boxing combo for one of my animation project.
REFERENCE VIDEO
For reference video I have shoot my own video and I have analyzed all clips on syncsketch to choose perfect poses I like to use as key poses for the animation. then clubbed all the clips to use it as reference video.
If you like to know the entire procedure please read my blog "Shoot to polish"
MAIN RIG CHARACTER/ENVIRONMENT OR PROP
I used the famous Jackie rig provided to all student for our workshops. I decided to use it for the boxing combo because it looks like a teenage girl and it will be perfectly fit into the character I am looking for.
I had one problem, Jackie has no boxing gloves. I thought I will add gloves using “ParentZvmaster” plugin which we used in workshops. But later after reinstalling the MAYA, any of plugins were not working suddenly.
I found one picture on net and I got the idea. I just decided to create a scene where a teenage girl practicing without gloves. And her gloves falling on floor, I think it make sense because sometimes kids do such things.
CREATING BREAKDOWN POSES AND PROGRESS
Finally, I created couple of key poses I believe making sense and related to boxing combo poses.
POLISHING THE ANIMATION
I used graph editor to polish the animation. added in between or keyframes to make it flow smoothly, while fixing the curves. Graph editor gives a clear prospective and we can visualize the actual movements while moving any keys to analyze the exact position of any body part and its mechanism and we can fix the issues faster and get a smooth animation.
SOUND/VOICE-OVER
Finally, I just recorded my daughter’s voice while she was acting and added in scene just to give it little finishing touch.
FINAL VIDEO OF BOXING ATACK COMBO
I added little camera movement to present the attack combo effectively and make it more visible from different axis finally I completed the Attack Combo successfully as I expected. I have added the final video on top of this page. enjoy watching and thanks for visiting my blog.