Posted in Animation Mentor, Weekly summary, tagged balance, character walk, Pose, sketchbook, stu on March 19, 2010| Leave a Comment »
Wow…this class is soon coming to an end, and I’m handing in my last assignment for class 1 at Animation Mentor. There’s one week left where I’m going to put all my class 1 assignments into a progress reel. This week I have been working on polishing the character walk, which I now call a “boogie walk”, and I have posed Stu showing “balance”. I’m going skiing/snowboarding this weekend, so this is what I have so far, but may do a few changes on sunday:
Posted in Animation Mentor, Weekly summary, tagged ballie, blocking, character walk, exhausted, Pose, stu on March 12, 2010| Leave a Comment »
Now the fun starts!!! This weeks assignment is blocking a character walk with “ballie” from a side view. Next week I will refine the walk and see it from a perspective view. We also have to hand in sketches of “exhausted” poses and a Stu pose showing the chosen pose.
I chose to make a happy, boogying, music-listening walk. So before I went into Maya to pose out the character, I made a reference video of myself, doing lots of different walks first, then more study of the walk I chose…. but let’s not show that here;)
It’s not sunday yet, so I might do a few changes, but here’s my assignments so far:
Posted in Animation Mentor, Work on assignments, tagged concerned, Pose, revision, stu, vanilla walk on March 10, 2010| Leave a Comment »
Wow, it’s week 10 allready, I’m learning character walks, listening to Gorillaz’ new album, the sun is shining and the snow is melting outside!
I got feedback from my mentor, Eric Lessard, on last weeks assignment, and he wasn’t too pleased with the Stu pose and sketches. It didn’t show a concerned emotion very clearly, but it’s a tough one, and I’m not the only one who struggled. From the critique I figured out that you need to have one hand to the head to show you’re concerned. Agree to disagree? 🙂 It’s interesting that so many students struggled to show this emotion in a pose. Well, I’ve done more “concerned” sketches, and made two revisions of the pose. I’m not sure yet if I’m handing in both. The “vanilla walk” just needed a tiny bit of change on the feets.
Posted in Animation Mentor, Weekly summary, tagged Pose, stu, vanilla walk on March 7, 2010| Leave a Comment »
Week 9 is almost over and I have finished my “vanilla walk” and posed a “concerned” Stu (as a girl this time!) I have to prepare myself for week 10 & 11 when I’m supposed to animate a walk with character. I’m not sure what to do yet, but my thoughts have been on doing a moonwalk (MJ style) or a drunk girl on high heels…but I haven’t decided anything yet. Anyway, here’s what I handed in this wek;
Posted in Animation Mentor, Work on assignments, tagged physical strength, Pose, stu on March 5, 2010| Leave a Comment »
It’s now week 9 and I’m struggling with animating a “normal” walk. But before you can have a look at that, here’s a revision of Stu’s “physical strength” pose from last week:
Posted in Animation Mentor, Weekly summary, tagged physical strength, stu, vanilla walk, walk on February 28, 2010| Leave a Comment »
Hello readers! I’ve just got back from skiing in the mountains, so I just uploaded this weeks assignment to hand in. We had to start making a “vanilla walk” by blocking out the main key poses, and hand it in as stepped mode. A “vanilla walk” is basically a normal-everyday-walk without character. “Oooh that’s easy” you might say, but hey, there’s a lot of details in a walk! So in week 9 we’re taking the blocking further to finish this walk without character. We also had to make a Stu pose this week, showing “physical strength”.
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