Scene 12 – Angry Farmer

This is the final scene of my animation. The scene starts with a side camera view of the farmer standing up with his hands up in the air. When people are distraught, sometimes they throw their hands in the air as if to say “Why Oh Why”. This was the look that I was going for.

The farmer then drops to his knees and then falls over forward as if he has got no energy and has given up. I wanted to show that the farmer was extremely angry because he has lost a huge amount of possible income. This is why when he is knelt over on the floor, I created an animation of him punching his fist into the ground followed by punching the ground with both fists.

I was very happy with how this scene turned out because it was tough making sure the animation looked realistic. First of all it took me a long time to work out what bones needed to be moved/scaled and rotated in order to create the kneeling affect. I also had to then do some editing half way through the animation because the front end of the farmers foot, the toes, were going underneath the ground plain. This meant that I had to move them up slightly on a number of frames to ensure that the animation looked realistic and the feet did not go under the ground.