I am currently at the end of week 3 as i'm writing this :)
Our lecture was hosted by Bobby Beck (CEO of animation mentor) and was an in-depth look at hips and the importance they play in animating a successful shot.
Our assignment this week was to tweak our blocking pass using Jays feedback and submit a Re-block, which Jay wanted in Linear keys. My current attempt (as of writing) is below :) i have tweaked it a few times using the great feedback from my fellow students and classmates, I'm pretty happy with it so far and think I have executed most things quite well - see what you think :)
Sunday, 23 January 2011
CLASS 2 week 2
This week our lecture was a walkthrough of Blocking to Final by Dimos Vrysella's
Our assignment this week was to submit our initial blocking pass in stepped keys to show our key poses, breakdowns and timing. We also had feedback from our mentor on our progress reel and our planning and video reference - luckily Jay seemed to like my reference and planning! but advised I simplify the sequence and concentrate on the last few steps as it would be enough work to achieve this to a high standard.
Here is my blocking pass :)
Our assignment this week was to submit our initial blocking pass in stepped keys to show our key poses, breakdowns and timing. We also had feedback from our mentor on our progress reel and our planning and video reference - luckily Jay seemed to like my reference and planning! but advised I simplify the sequence and concentrate on the last few steps as it would be enough work to achieve this to a high standard.
Here is my blocking pass :)
CLASS 2 week 1
I'm late updating this as usual! - am currently in week 3 of class 2 but here is a recap of week 1!
Class 2 is called Psychology of Body Mechanics and focuses on body movements in more detail. My Mentor for this class is Jay Davis who worked as an artist/animator at Disney for over 12 years on 2D and 3D productions, after that he moved to London and was a supervising animator on 'Hellboy II' - supervising the animation of the 'Golden Army' sequence. He is currently a full time painter - you can see his work here - www.jayndavis.com
In the first week I was introduced to my class in our first Q&A, I was happy to see some familiar faces from my previous class and also a couple of people from the Maya springboard workshop (Which i can't believe was over 6 months ago!) as well as a few new ones.
Our assignments this week were to choose a shot from a pick list of 10 ideas that we will be working on for the next 4 weeks, then to upload some video reference and planning for it. We also had to upload our progress reel from class one to give our mentor an idea of what stage we were currently at.
Here is my planning from week 1! - I chose to do a shot of a character walking down some stairs:
Class 2 is called Psychology of Body Mechanics and focuses on body movements in more detail. My Mentor for this class is Jay Davis who worked as an artist/animator at Disney for over 12 years on 2D and 3D productions, after that he moved to London and was a supervising animator on 'Hellboy II' - supervising the animation of the 'Golden Army' sequence. He is currently a full time painter - you can see his work here - www.jayndavis.com
In the first week I was introduced to my class in our first Q&A, I was happy to see some familiar faces from my previous class and also a couple of people from the Maya springboard workshop (Which i can't believe was over 6 months ago!) as well as a few new ones.
Our assignments this week were to choose a shot from a pick list of 10 ideas that we will be working on for the next 4 weeks, then to upload some video reference and planning for it. We also had to upload our progress reel from class one to give our mentor an idea of what stage we were currently at.
Here is my planning from week 1! - I chose to do a shot of a character walking down some stairs:
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