Animating the Biped part2.

After experimenting with entrances and different starting positions, I decided that having the character already positioned appropriately on the stage allowed me to start animating some of his personality sooner rather than having to wait for him to get into position.

The animation is split into three parts:

1. The character is addressed by a narrator and asked about what he is going to do.
2. The character then begins performing different magic tricks.
3. By the end of the third magic trick, the character then decides magic may not be for him.
   

In order to give a good flow of movement, I thought about how many frames I would require and the rate at which these frames were processed. In this case I have chosen to use 1800 frames with an fps setting of 30. This gives plenty of frame creation room on the timeline, including a comfortable speed to work with.

The character is first seen viewing his surroundings, his personality and movement suggest he has a curious nature about him. He is then greeted by a narrator who asks him about his task today and suggest how he could perform them. The idea behind the narrator, came from the popular children's animated programme, 'Pocoyo' where the narrator directs interacts with the characters.



The character then discovers the hats on the ground before him and in preparation for some magic tricks he reaches and pulls a magic wand from his garments. Next he will recite a simple line of magic words and attempt to conjure something out from the hat.. instead the hat sprouts wings and begins fluttering around and off from camera view.



The character then follows the position of the escaping hat using eye and body movements, ending with a confused expression and look towards the audience. He then shrugs, thinking this event could just be a simple coincidence and proceeds to try his luck on the next hat.



Here he focuses his attention on the second hat by looking at it directly and adjusting his body to face the new object, which he then uses his magic wand to lift and move the item in front of him. Again he attempts to cast a magic spell, though as the audience we don't know the nature of his intentions in terms of the character's desired outcome from the spell, possibly he would like flowers to appear from the hat.



For the second mishap, the hat instead shoots away like a rocket off the scene view, causing the character to appear confused and slightly scared at the fact none of his magic tricks are going to his plan.