Film location.

I have decided to shoot the backing footage in the Citystop on Manners St. I chose this store as the set up of the store works well for my animation. It has a line of fridges with a set of shelves opposite it that has chip packets on it. The store owner agreed to let me film there so I got all the shots I need. I should be able to start the playblast now.

Tip roll move

This is how I plan to have my character move longer distances quickly by tipping back and rolling along.

Nip up animations

Below are the images of my characters nip up animation for when he jumps up off of the exploded burger ring packet.

Flip animations

Started doing some of the flip animations as my character will be doing a few of these in the clip. I'm finding that getting the motion looking "human like" isn't too hard it just takes a while as I need quite a few keyframes. As you will notice the beginning of the flip cycle is the same as the head nudge.

Door nudge animation

Below are some action shots of the animation where my character opens a door with his head.

Expressions

I started doing some blend shapes for the expressions of my character. I also have started trying to get a plastic shader working though it's not looking good enough yet so I will look up some tutorials for that. Below are the expressions I have done so far.

First Rigging

My first attempt at at rigging. The symmetrical shape of my character makes the skeleton a pretty simple spine. However I'm going to have to play around with the weight painting so that he bends how I picture a bottle would if he was alive.