Telling tales - animating

In the next part of the animation I have the girl reaching for the ball and throwing it and catching it. I decided to do this in parts, one because I wanted to camera angles, and two becasue I wanted to get them both done that day, so didn't want the render time to be massive.

I spent the morning doing the first second of reaching. I did this from the girls point of view becuase I wanted a new interesting camera angle.

I put the playblast vidio with the other two scenes to see if it looked good, and I was happy with it. but when it came to rendering, the last few frames came out black. I thought I could maybe get away with what I had, but this was too fast, so I went back, adjusted the camera, as I thought it might be too close to the girl's head, and rendered again.




When I re rendered it this time it was fine, not sure what went wrong, but I got the images I needed.

I then got on with the second part of my scene 3, where the girl it throwing the ball in the air. I need add quite a few frames to make sure the ball was in her hand when needed. and used a refence video of me to make sure I got the timings right. Here it looks quite slow, so I decided to put the ball higher up so it fall quicker.
I also made sure her eyes and head were looking tin the right direction, and used different perspective points to help me get the ball and hand in the right posistion so it created a nice flowing movement. 




I now need to make the brother move in someway, I think I may get him to look bored and un interested in what  she's doing. 

again, I need to work on my timing, he moves too fast. I can fix this by deleting some frames and/or space them out.