Throwing A Ball (Pose To Pose Animation)

Reference Video

After viewing the reference video, I put my character into the key poses.

Creating a silhouette of my character allows me to see how effective these key poses are to the audience. If the key pose can be recognised in silhouette form then the animation will be better illustrated for the audience. 

Taking out the step animation, Maya then filled in the gaps between the poses and after a few adjustments the animation flowed better.

Motion Trail

From my animation I created a motion trail, this can then be edited to make my animation smoother.

This image shows the motion trail of the right shoulder and wrist and these are the parts of the body that do the most movement.

In my animation I noticed that when the arm swings round it jumps up slightly and this can be seen in the motion trail.