Right now I'm technically in Class 3, but Animation Mentor is currently on break for the holidays.

This is what I did since that last assignment:

Class 2, Week 4

Actually, it's week 5 now, but this is from Sunday, pre-mentorcrit:

Class 2, Week 3

I forgot about this blog! Oh noes!

Week 1 and 2 are all about planning and blocking, so I didn't have a whole ton to post anyway, but! Here's my reference:



aaaaand my most recent blocking+ pass. I just put this up for feedback on the AM site, because there's a few very specific things I want other people to look at before I take this any further.

Whoops, forgot to post the finished tired walk!

Class 2 has already started. Time to film some video reference!

Having Hurricane Irene knock out the power for most of a week plus getting sick makes for an interesting situation when it comes to online schools. :(

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Tailor, the overlap assignment, revised.

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Vanilla walk cycle. Something odd happened in the compression and frame 4 was repeated twice for... some reason.

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Blocking pass on my tired walk. I am not feeling this one, it was done in a huge rush on Saturday and Sunday (all AM assignments are due on a Sunday) because I'd lost power for so long. Not fun.

Week 7

Tailor! Pre-mentor crit.

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Also, I should probably say, if I haven't posted a video post-mentor crit, it's because I wasn't asked to do a revision.

Week 6

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The pendulum exercise! Pre-mentor crit.

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That dreaded obstacle course assignment. This one drove just about everyone up the wall, and I think I can see where it needs more work.



Devastation pose. The sketches for these were fun to do, although it's easily the most depressing page in my sketchbook. :(

I can't believe it's already halfway through class 1. In 6 weeks at AM, I learned more about animating than I did in four years of uni.

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Pre-mentor crit final version!

Week 4

Assignment for this week is to animate TWO bouncing balls this time, one heavy and one light.

So, first pass:



And then a revision of last week's vanilla ball:



I haven't gotten any formal crit just yet, but I've already learned how important the planning stage is, and a weakness that I have in getting my planning to make sense to other animators. I did better than last time, but still not there.

YET.

Also, I think next time I'm going to stop uploading to Photobucket. They make the video so crunchy and gross!

I just tried Vimeo and they told me the upload failed because the video was too... small. I have never had that happen before.

Week 3

THE FIRST OFFICIAL AM ANIMATION

The humble ball bounce. Extremely exciting. No, seriously. We're not even worried about squash and stretch for this class, it's just pure timing and spacing, and the amount i learned about both in a pretty short period of time has BLOWN MY MIND. I never realized there was so much information to be had in a ball bounce, and FAR more to be learned than in a looping bounce. One of my friends told me that once, and I didn't believe him, BUT I REALLY BELIEVE HIM NOW.

I'm talking too much.



This is pre-mentor critique. If I need to do revisions, they'll come in a later post.

We also had to pose the Stu model in an "excited" pose, so:



These were various sketches for an excited figure. Some of them were from life, including myself contorting awkwardly in front of a mirror, some of them were from youtube videos of very, very shrieky people.

The circled pose is the one I decided to use, but it turned out to be quite different for a number of reasons:



I thought the pose I drew was okay, but kind of cliche. You see that pose everywhere, everyone knows it. I also wanted to put some tilt in the hips and ribcage, and I also had Stu's GIGANTIC HEAD to consider when thinking about silhouette. So, all in all, he looks like this now.

And about week 2, revision wasn't a required part of last week's assignment, but I wasn't 100% comfortable with what I had, so I went ahead and did one anyway. Never too much practice, right?

Week 2 continued

Advantage of turning in assignments early: A bunch of eyeballs will see your work, poke it apart, and you have time to make changes before the due date.

So, from here:



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Couple of interesting things happened in this assignment. I had more than one mentor critiquing me, Robert Russ who dropped by from the forums and Anthony Wong who's teaching me, and they disagreed with each other. What's seen here in the very last pose was from Robert's advice, mixed with a redline an awesome friend did for me, but I also liked what Anthony had to say, SO I'm going to revise this for an eighth time and put that up with my first official ball bouncing assignment.

BALLS, TONS OF THEM!

Week 2

THE SKETCHES:



THE RENDER: