So this week we had a fantastic lecture introducing us to the principles of animation. Even though I'd encountered them plenty before when animating and in books and daily animated life, it was still really interesting to hear what these principles meant for so many accomplished animators. Plus, the lecture videos are very well edited and put together - even if it's stuff you mostly know, you can't help but sit and smile at Bobby Beck, Carlos Baena and and Shawn Kelly just because they're so damn entertaining to watch

But anyway, onto this week's task. Our mission was to head out to various public places, sketch the people we saw and the poses that interested us, and then take our favourite into 3d by posing our character using the sketch as a basis. I ended up going to Waterloo and Marylebone train stations during evening rush hour; the circled one is the one I chose to develop further (click to zoom in). And note to self: whilst train stations may be fantastic for finding poses, they're also bloody freezing!

And this is the result in 3d:

Hope you like it; all feedback welcome!