Emotion change 6 - more blocking stage

I'm still adding more and more breakdowns to the animation before splining the curves. Because of inaccurate hand placing at the beginning the hands are all jumpy so I'm working on that.
Took 6 hours 2 mins, only 9,981 hours and 24 mins to go.

Emotion Change version 2- blocking stage

 
It was suggested to me that the acting on the first Emotion Change exercise was too fake and weird. So I started from scratch again. The lower part of the body was immensely simplified but the facial expressions are more complex now. Profesor Jeff also showed me a new way to work on my animations so I'll try it and see what happens. First, I have to fix her bad case of beer belly.

Took exactly 5 hours plus the 4 hours 08 mins I invested in the old emotion change before trashing it. Only 9,978 hours and 18 mins left.

Emotion change- blocking

This is the final blocking of the emotion change exercise. The girl goes through the following changes in emotion: from sadness to confusion to surprise to relief. I'm still not very sure about the small steps she takes when trying to maintain her balance...I think they look rather silly.

Took 7 hours 51 mins, only 9,987 hours and 26 mins to go

Live ball v7- now with side jump

This is the 7th version of the live ball exercise. The last jump was changed, now the ball jumps in a diagonal way in order to explore the pendulum movement when it suddenly changes direction. I also learned the valuable lesson that Maya crashes so after losing all my progress I decided to enable AutoSave (took me long enough) and now every time it saves something I panic and I command+s it again.

Took 2 hours 13 mins, only 9,995 hours and 17 mins to go

Total time for this particular animation: 4 hours 43 mins