Haven't posted in awhile! I've been enjoying my leave of absence from AM. I'm glad they offer that option, because AM is really quite fast-paced, and the break was exactly what I needed to get back in order.

Spent a lot of time actually -reading- all the animation-related books I've gotten, doing study from them and also from other animators' works. I've been working on people watching too! That sounds odd, but I'm actually a bit shy in public about staring at total strangers. Eek!

Since AM is starting back up soon though, I've been diving back into Maya and editing some older shots., but before that, I didn't realize that I'd forgotten to upload my stuff from Class 4, so:



Pantomime shot. Noooot happy with this one. I'm afraid I was not at my best when I did this shot.

Over the break, I took some time to attempt to fix it up a bit, seen here:



Still not perfect. Unfortunately I've run up against the frame limit, and I think it'd be easier to scrap this shot and redo the entire thing from the ground up. The concept was flawed from the planning stage, sadly.



First time REALLY working with dialogue! I do like Jeremy Brett's Sherlock a lot, but in hindsight, it was quite the challenge to animate to his rapid speech. Overall I like it alright, still has some pops to smooth out. I will probably try to clean up this shot next.