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?