AJ Animation

Amber modeled AJ and rigged him then sent him to me to animate. Animation is something that I have been interested in and this game project is the second time I will have animated something in Maya. It was definitely a learning curve animation something that wasn't a walk sequence with any reference behind it to look at. The final animation was the fourth time or so I had attempted to animate it due to issues with the program and files and we had a few problems putting the texture on him after he was animated as the animation had warped the UV map. However we fixed this and so the texture shows little to no warping anymore. I would definitely like to practice animation more and would like to look into doing more animations for third person characters. I will also look into getting more references to learn from and how bodies look in motion so as to make them as natural as possible. I wish I could have used one of the first animations I did for him as I think one of them looked better, however in the time and the fact that I was redoing it was wasting time and I needed to get on with other things.