animating research

These are links to some of the videos I used for inspiration and for reference. I wanted the movements of my worm to be ridiculous (lots of secondary jiggling motion) but also move like an inch worm. 

The character Heimlich from bugs life was the first thing I thought about when thinking of the motion of the character. His motion is something everyone from my generation will remember from there childhood. His motion its incredibly jiggly and cumbersome which make the character look very silly. It looks like a lot of effort for this character to move and I wanted to get the same thing across with my worm character.

I found this animation really useful for reference on secondary motion but also how my character would make certain movements like standing up on its back segments. There was also a lot of good exaggeration in this animation which really added to the comedy which I found could be good if applied to my animation.

I also looked at real life inch worms since thats actually what my character is based from. From the early concept stage of this project I loved the movement of inchworms and thought they moved in such an interesting yet ridiculous way I wanted my character to do something similar. I watched this and a few other videos of inchworms and caterpillars moving around to get reference for my "walk cycle" my worm was going to do.