Walmart

In the beginning of the pandemic, live action production came to a halt. As a result the Walmart brand quickly pivoted to animation and tapped The Pub Productions to get the word out about their many offerings to help people get through this difficult time. These two pieces showcase the solution to working from home and Rx fulfillment.

This was one of my most fun challenges. I wanted the boy on the unicycle to look realistic and unsteady, but tweaking (and revising) so many keyframes was turning out to be a chore. So instead, I rigged the unicycle wheel's rotation to it's speed and distance across the width the comp. The expression came from a Creative Cow tutorial by Carl Larsen that I can no longer find, however the technique is well described in this post from lesterbanks.com. Once I had the rotation down, I rigged the boy with Duik and connected the legs, pedals and crank shafts to the unicycle wheel.