For my IMGD Animation 1 class, we spent a week animating a character lifting heavy weight. For this project, I went through three passes, in this pass I used reference to get the general and basic movements down as well as added some basic facial expressions.
In this pass, the movement and facial expressions are refined, as well as adding basic lighting and a simple background environment. The ears are also animated to aid in the character’s emoting and show follow-through for head movements.
In this final pass, the movement is further refined to better sell the weight of the box; The foot steps beneath the box, and the character leans further back to better aid in getting the box’s center of weight between the character’s feet.