Javelin

Once the running gcycle had been made, I decided to make a start on the javelin throw animation. However, a bit of the way into position the starting pose, I noticed that the armature I was using did not allow the arm to rotate in such a fashion in order to grip the javelin properly. Instead of reconfiguring the armature to allow better grip, I decided to chose another olympic practice instead.










The first one I chose to do was olympic diving, as there is a wide variety of diffent techniques to animate. However, since I was unable to find any slow motion videos I could reference, as well as the high probability that there would be another conflict in the armature, I decided to look for another. In the end, I chose rowing since it has a good balance of arm, leg and back animation. The videos I used for reference are listed below.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLhptMPeh7A
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqVmMd7FdAA