Challenge 7: Record/find reference footage
This reference footage was done by me and my roommate, as he is particularly good at jumping. I set up three cameras to record the process
Challenge 8 (Part 1): Setting Up Maya, Exploring Rigs & Blocking Out Body Mechanics
For the rig, I chose the bony rig because the position of his joints was very obvious and this helped me to determine if the pose was correct. In the blocking phase, I started by analysing the movement frame by frame using PR, marking each keyframe on the timeline. This made the blocking part relatively easy for me as I only had to pose the character according to the key time points I analysed.