The first thing I thought I should start trying to animate was the diver swimming. I knew there'd be a few scenes with divers swimming so this seemed like the logical place to start. I looked at a lot of reference footage of real life divers however they did not swim at all how I had pictured. I assumed there would be a lot of leg movment involved however a lot of scuba diving movement seems to be pretty passive. The kind of hollywoodesq diving I was picturing was hard to find except for I remembered that James Bond definitely had some featured in some of the films. After talking with a tutor I found an underwater battle from the film thunderball which had loads of great reference footage.
This was the first swim cycle I produced. I was unsure about it and other I showed it too were also unsure. The problem was the movements where too cyclic and were not exaggerated enough so it did't look like the diver was pushing off against anything. I kept tweaking the swim cycle and slowed it down to create the final result which I was very happy with. I also experimented a little doing head turns which look 3D using the liquify effect. I had learnt how to do it for a previous responsive brief and thought it could add a nice touch of character to the animation.
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