This animated short was created for an assignment during Academy @ The Focus.
The assignment's focus was animating the Mama Tiger as realistically and close to the reference as possible.
Process - For this 2-week long assignment, I started out by doing a layout blocking of the general path of the Mama Tiger. Once I had the general blocking, I continued onto blocking out all the key poses before moving onto adding the detailed in-betweens. Once all of the blocking was finished, I started polishing my animation to resemble the reference as much as possible.
Obstacles - One of the biggest problems I had with this assignment was the rig. Unfortunately, the rig was not capable of all the movement that the real tiger is so concessions had to be made.
Rig and Reference were provided by Academy @ The Focus.