chazamation | the charles tinney art blog

I’ve entered the below animation in the 11 Second Club October 2008 competition. This is my first entry ever, but I didn’t necessarily do it because of the competition: I wanted to do some character performance animation again, since it’s been quite some time. I had a lot of fun and I can’t wait to do some more. It took about four work days to complete.

Larger quicktime version can be seen here.

I was helping my friend time out a jump, and I did an animation of a ball “jumping”. After I animated it, I told him that you could easily add arms and legs to the ball to make it a person jumping. I then proceeded to do that and here is the result:

This walk is a test, not final by any means, for the HELP! short I’m working on. He’s kind of bored on his way to work, and is hoping for some action.

A super hero trying to move quickly to answer calls of distress, may end up needing his own help. This is the animatic.