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Walk Cycle

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Loop

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In this gif, mickey mouse is walking with the same exact movements reoccurring. People use this in animations to make the character walk continuously In this gif, the elephant uses it's ears to fly. People use this in animations to makes objects or characters fly continuously.   

Hand Animation

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A success in doing this was animating the fingers of the hand and adding bones to it. A difficulty was rendering the animation because all my frames turned out to be black. I found out that my light source was not strong enough, so I added a sun that fixed this problem. I can improve this animation by making the finger movements look more realistic because it looks very floppy.

IK Constraints

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Hand Rig

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Armatures

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  In this exercise, I had the most success in animating the arm. The difficult part of this was making the bones bigger. Instead of only selecting the ball part on the bone, I had the whole bone selected which made the entire bone move when I pressed g. 

Critique Reflection

 In my animation, I think that I did best on the keyframing portion of the project. I like the way that the swingset swings back and forth, and how the legs of the character also move with the swing. My classmates thought the same thing, although I would like to improve the camera movements in the animation. I feel like there were more things in the scene that I could have captured.  Currently, my strengths are keyframing and animating objects. I can make them look better by adjusting the graph of the keyframes. My weakness is capturing the things that I want to capture in a scene. I can improve this by making sure that everything is in the frame of the camera when I animate it.