Description:
From this lesson, I continue learning from poses to animation. By creating poses I understand the need to consider how to make it look realistic thus same goes to animation. We were even taught in class to put ourselves in spiderman's pose. To experience and observe closely how our weight shift from one leg to another and how our other body parts react to it.

So from this animation, I started editing the hips to make it shift to one side and his legs followed accordingly. To make it more obvious, I edited the legs a little bit to make it holds the weight more on one side. The body, hands and head follows by shifting together naturally too. The head tilts from one side to another with a slight nod as that is how I observe myself when shifting my head and body together. By editing the postures, we were taught how to key frame the poses so that it will be saved and can be rendered out into an animation too thus this is the product out of the exercise I did.

What can be improved:
Comments I get from Mr Douglas which I also agreed on is that his shoulders and arms are quite stiff and awkward when he shifts his weight. He look like he have robot hands that he controlled not to move and only moved his hands.

Reflection:
Shifting of weight exercise taught me so much on how and what to emphasize on to show that it is shifting its weight. It made me have this thinking process of which part starts first, follow by which body part will react and how the final pose will be. However I could have done better for the shoulders thus something to take note for my final project since it also involves rotation of shoulders. I think this exercise will help me a lot in my project as walking cycle involves a lot of body parts to move at the same time.

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