Usimg Animation software

In the past few lessons i have been experimenting and playing about with 3d auto desk. I made the basic skeleton of my snake and have been looking at videos as to how a snake moves.

The first time i managed to make the snake the move i realised its movement were not flowing enough and did not match with the movement of a snake.
This lesson i am going to concentrate on making the perfect movements and making my snake look more realistic.

Animation

I have completed my storyboard, i did not have to use many shots as my animation is simple so i just highlighted the most important parts such as the movement so i know what parts i need to animate.

In this lesson i am going to use a 3D animation program (not maya) just to get an idea and feel of 3D animation. I am not going to look too much into this program as i will be creating my animation in a different program.

Storyboarding

In todays lesson i am going to start story-boarding my animation. As the main part of my animation will be the snake moving in and out of the words i will not literally storyboard each movement. Instead i will storyboard what the snake does at the beginning, middle and end. i have decided the snake is going to interact with some of the surfaces on the letters to make it look more interesting and life like.
I am also going to choose a font for my production name, i will have to find one that will not only look good on its own, but look good when the snake is moving in and out.

The main focus

In this lesson i created my main character (the snake) out of clay. This helped me in planning what my character is going to look like.

I had to think about how the snake was going to move. I found plotting where i had to create points in which the character would move (a bit like joints) fairly simple, as it was just circles going along the snakes body. I decided that the mouth is not going to move but the tongue is. Next lesson i will research about how snakes tongues moves which will enable me to plot points on my model.

My Animation Idea

I am going to create a snake animation around the name of my film company "slither"
The snake i create with move in an out of the letters and at the end with curl around itself.
I had an idea in which i could make the snake shed skin around the letters to then make the letters snakes skin, this is only a temporary idea as i think it might be too difficult or take too much time to create.