My final project is an interpretation of what would happen if chess pieces came to life in a bouncy house brawl. The fight is between two chess knights who enter the bouncy house, each with their own dramatic entrance. The fight ends with a pawn crushing the black knight just before the first blow is completed.

Here is my storyboard:

A Few Principles of Animation I used

Pose to Pose: The twirling of the staff was difficult to keyframe using straight ahead, so I utilized pose to pose to ensure the staff ended in the correct position

Anticipation: Both the knights take a huge breath before the fight begins to build anticipation.

Follow through: There are multiple incidences of follow through, but the most noticeable one is when both knights' heads continue to dip down past the original starting point as they exhale

Screenshots

The white knight enters the scene with a superhero landing holding staff behind its body. This is supposed to resemble the pose found in the Marvel superhero movies

These screenshots show a few pivotal moments of the fight:

• Kung fu panda-like twirl of the black knight's staff
• Simultaneous deep breath before the fight
• Pawn eyeing its target before it strikes

This was the first project where I experimented with Arnold lights. I created a skydome light and pasted a stadium hdr texture I found from this website: http://www.hdrlabs.com/sibl/archive.html

The knights were taken off this chess set model: https://free3d.com/3d-model/low-poly-chess-black-white-48044.html

Sound effects from freesound.org

White knight's superhero landing: https://freesound.org/people/Shinplaster/sounds/264777/

Thud of staff: https://freesound.org/people/Reitanna/sounds/332668/

Woosh of black knight's staff: https://freesound.org/people/Shinplaster/sounds/264777/

Breathing: https://freesound.org/people/herwint/sounds/267512/

Pawn dropping: https://freesound.org/people/jobro/sounds/157969/