'Fishing for the moon' test one

This is my first test of my animation, using an iPhone app. I will later on upload the frames on to Dragon frame, to see the scene more clearly and polished. If I have enough time, I shall upload it into tv paint and add colour to the sky to make it more obvious its the moon he is fishing and reeling in.

Key frames and poses for my animation

This is my key poses for the swing, which I will be adding passing frames then in-betweens, however I feel that the swing needs an increased amount of in-betweens compared to the pulling as I feel this movement is already smooth.

Key frame plan for dymanic animation exercises

   this is the key frames that I will be using, created from my research I have plotted key frames similar to the shapes and bodily poses in my drawings. As he reels in the moon, I am going to extended the frames by adding in fillers.

Key shapes

simplified key shapes seen in fishing videos, I decided to take note of the pattern I saw. The action tends to start off with a slumped back, facing either left or right from a side view. Then the body begins to twist to the opposite side. As the rod swings forward, the arms become bend and close to the body.

Reeling in the moon: acting out actions

To further research, I asked my partner to act out the movements of reeling in the moon.
In his actions of pretending to swing out a reel, I noticed key poses similar to other drawings from other research sources of reeling out a fishing line.
From the side, there tends to be an 's' line of action, in the anticipation before swinging the fishing rod backwards. Once again, the body twists. The feet stays in the same place, only the legs and back moving and twisting; although the feet do lift, and point different ways- they do not move until the fall trying to reel in the moon. The movement of speed slows down as the moon is lassoed, this shows the weight and effort of trying to heave the moon down.

I shall use these key shapes and reference these movements with in my animation.

Fishermens movement research

Watching this footage from YouTube, I paused the video where I saw key movements of his actions of swinging the line and reeling it in. From my sketches, I have identified a pattern that continued in his movements through out the clip. Despite making different swings, he continued to form similar, repeated shapes and arm positions, which can be seen in my drawings through different parts of the clip:

 

notes from his movements:

-His body is never symmetrically portioned.

- when the reel is out, his spine is mostly in a 'S' shape, his chest leaning forwards and his lower end pointing backwards outwards.

-What ever position, when the reel is out- the  hands seems to be mirrored against each other.

- One hand is at the real, the other one is under.

-When the puts the fishing rod behind him, he twists to the left. The rod itself goes downwards from the left in a rotational circle when swung.  

 Redrew simplified versions of the drawings to note the line of actions. In all of his movement he tends to have an 's' shape going through him as he twists and turns. In my animation I shall exaggerate this greatly.