Week 5: Blocking

This week I was very unsure what to do after my last critique. Some said to finish out my whole storyboard, others said to do more reference, where as others said chop chop and start animating.

I couldn't find a child to twirl around. I tried doing reference with friends, but I couldn't create what I was going for so I decided to stick with the reference I already found last week. I think I'm just going to start animating regardless cuz I can't afford to waste any more time at this point.

I thought instead of storyboarding I could block out my whole scene, but then I remembered someone saying I should only block out the hug. I decided to compromise by blocking it all out then depending on how I feel maybe I'd only spline the hug.

Issues I Ran Into:
-I tried to import the Claire rig into my scene and it kept crashing. I solved this by importing my scene into the Claire rig scene and saving that combined file as my new scene. I'm still not sure why I can't import Claire into scenes. Maybe it's a Long Winter thing?
-Claire's elbows. I had trouble positioning them the way I wanted to. Maybe it's the pose, but I'm having trouble working with those shoulder arrows.
-I don't know how to turn off just Claire's controllers. She isn't set up like Kayla with her own controls layer.

Link to Playblast. Once I figure out how to show the video I'll change it