Jellyfish exercise ! · Spine Quest Academy

Jellyfish exercise !

Finally finished the Jellyfish exercise !

Took me some time because my brain couldn't process how offsetting works. It just couldn't comprehend how it goes from a rigid *translation+scaling* to something so smooth with what i was blindly doing with the keyframes by following the tutorial (Now I kinda get it better, what i'm missing will come with practice).

That being said, I would love some feedbacks if possible !

What I noticed already is :

The farthest tentacle on the left is too curved, the top slips off at some point and is no longer covered by the body :_)
I was so focused on offsetting the tentacles to give a less robotic look to the animation, that I had not realised that the motion is terrible. By that I mean, this jellyfish does not use her tentacle to propel herself (therefore move forwards) at all, she just swings them randomly x-x.

For the second gif, I was learning how to animate the face at the end of the tutorial. And when I followed the tutorial by unchecking the inherit scale property, it made the eyes slide like this xD. Couldn't stop giggling at how goofy it looks, but I didn't manage to find a way for the eyes to just, not do that? It probably is a dumb mistake but I didn't find the solution and went for the second method instead.

Does anyone have an advice on how to edit your motion after having offseted all the keyframes already? My brain actually felt lost and exploded when I wanted to try o7.

What I'll do in the upcoming days is most likely make a new (different) jellyfish to apply what I recently learnt.

Have a nice day everyone !

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