Axolotl self study
During block A and B in my third year at BUAS during the selfstudy days on fridays, with this project I wanted to explore with creature animation to see if it's something that I would like to pursue for my future career. This was a fun but very tough project, I couldn't find a lot of good reference video's of axolotls it made it hard for me to get the right feel in but this challenge was also what made it exiting to work on, to see how I would fill in the gaps that I missed in references.
Final result of the axolotl swimming animation
Final result of the axolotl idle animation
Final result of the axolotl walking animation
I studied how a whale shark swims to get a good base for the swimming motion
After i studied the whale i translated that info onto the axolotl, and although the movement is a bit slow it does feel good
This is the swimming with the sped up motion of the whale and some added animations to the limbs and gills
This was my first idle animation, after this i made some adjustments based on feedback that i got from my peers to make the animation pop a bit more
For the walk i found a good reference video of an axolotl walking and i reused the tail animation from the swimming to add some more life to him
This is the walk with some extra clean up and some extra movement to the body