Bear - Circus Series #2

[rafael]

Hey guys, here's the next character in my Circus series personal project.

The unicycle proved to be a bit of a pain, but I feel like I have a much better idea of how to handle something like that in the future. Got to play around with animated layer orders (OMG wish after effecs had that!) and finally realized I should be using the bone translation instead of the manipulation tool!

Anyway, this one is pretty much the same as the Strongman, with the compositing/smears/shadow/grain etc. done in AE.

[jahnocli]

So good on many levels!

[Greenlaw]

That's very charming! Fun character and animation Rafel.

[rafael]

Thanks guys; I really tried to get these characters as simple as possible while still being able to emote etc. Surprisingly hard to design something that ends up looking so simple.

Anywho, I just slapped together a quick BTS video for the rig and animation if anyone is interested.