In my last version I had animated the sequence ready for polish up to the point when the character places his first foot on the staircase. I did expect to spend a lot of time on the part where he looses balance but still surprised it has taken me close to 8 hours on that small part of the animation alone.
After working for 1 hour trying to make it work, I realized that my current poses did not work at all and my reference video did not help me either as I could not see much what was going on with my pelvis or legs so I made a new one to help me through this part of the animation:
As soon as I've gotten passed this point, the rest of the animation wen fairly quick as it already had some really good poses where very few breakdowns where necessary in order to achieve respectable animation.
I have also now added animation to the items on the tray, I even tried animating fluids.
This version is pretty much the final version, the only difference is that it is not rendered:
Could it be better? OF COURSE! there is still room for a lot of improvement, it always is! Especially with him going off balance. But as hard as it is, I have to let the animation go now so I have a chance to finish my mime before the deadline.
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