Honour's Project: Animation practices

After much thought and feedback for which path I will take as my 4th year study. I've come to the decision to focus on character acting and performance, the aim is to develop a showreel showcasing character performance from studies and animation disciplines through research and practical research.

Last week I created a very rough blocked out animation from storyboards I designed. Although the animation is very rough the aim was to focus on timing, pose to pose and clear silhouette form.

While researching animation techniques I came across a maya tutorial which described the use of the "Editable Motion trail". This feature allows the user edit the motion graph in a 3D space as to oppose a separate motion graph window.

A link to the tutorial: http://www.digitaltutors.com/tutorial/1176-Introduction-to-Animation-in-Maya#play-28620