YouieCho-LookingOutwards-05

For this week’s Looking Outwards, I chose the computer graphics work of Baby Groot character that was animated in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2. I think this is a work that is very important in the movie because it has so many cute elements with natural animation. The sequence was done by Framestore, whose animation supervisor was Arslan Elver. Framestore intiially looked into characteristics of babies and young children. Then, they modified the design so that it would feel more mature than a human baby, and “autistic.” After creating the graphics, they had to animate within various contexts in the movie. I think an inspiring process is the way Framestore did animation tests to see how its walking and running cycle would be; there especially had to be sensible decisions made for it to be moving next to other human figures. how they added an extra distance in the movement so that it wouldn’t need extra steps.