Trimester #02 - Week #02: "Walk to Stop, progress"

Class:
Body Mechanics

Title: 

Walk To Stop

Stage: 

Splining

Critique points:

•  On the final pose the arm motion looks overall too isolated from the body. The arm motion should be tapped backwards to around 80% of the weight shift to give that feeling that the hand "pushes out" the hip the last 20% of the motion, to make everything more integrated.
• There's issues with bent knees; there are a lot of reasons behind this but the main ones are:
  1. Up positions being too low and down positions being too high. 
  2. On the up-down movement (Y-axis) there's a lack of ease-in/out, which could be causing that as well.
  3. The feet are not slamming the ground quick enough, so they're causing some passing positions to have bent knees (or rather adding to the 'bentness')
  4. Overall this issue will go away with further polishing. 
  5. At some points the body's forward movement does not match properly some of the poses. There's a couple of down positions on which the body is either too far backwards or too far forward, so that's adding to the bent-knee situation as well.

Personal Notes:
From this week forward all my videos will be viewable on the Quicktime webplayer, which features a handy frame-by-frame button, so there's that. 
Also I'd like to comment on the brutal difference between last week's blocking and today's splining; This shot really came to life and hopefully I'll be able to fix it and push it forward.

Up until next week!