This is Eric – Animation

Here is a little gif of Eric saying “Hi”

I created my own voice over, I am not loving it to be honest, I might ask someone else to read it for me but I’ll see.

As you can see I used the squash and stretch principle as Eric falls and lands in the screen. He then uses his top left corner as an arm to wave “Hello” Eric is a normal person, thus he can be happy and energetic. His mental health does weigh him down sometimes and this you will see throughout the animation.

I was not able to use null objects as the parent for the puppet tool pins. It kept on breaking fro some reason.

Sorry the gif rendered some weird textures and lines.
Here I actually used the echo effect to create a dragging, stretching effect. It was actually quite easy and effective
Here I just changed the size of the cube
Here I just added pins to each corner of the square to create the wave effect
I only used the top two corners. The right top corner moves up all the way as if he is reaching up with an arm. As this happens the other arm/shoulder shrugs down. This gives the square a nice reach to the right side before he waves three times and returns to his neutral position

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