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: