crappy chess animation

maya, 1-2 hours

This is an idea I was working on for a chess game. I spent a little over an hour on it, and at this point the idea got vetoed in favor of another idea I was working on. No sweetening or overlap passes, just rough keyframes. The idea was to have two guys jousting, one knocks the other off, etc. Unfortunately I didn't get that far. Still, I figured it was a decent "sketch" that I could post, since I haven't been able to post any drawings in a few days. Probably the main reason I never post any work-related stuff is that almost everything I've done is copyrighted and unreleased, which is kind of a no-no.

NOTE: sorry for the lame compression and everything. I'm looking into how to edit the settings for this Blogger Video thing, hopefully I can repost a better resolution and frame rate.