Class 1: Week 3 : The way it was supposed to be...
April 16th, 2005As I stated earlier, I screwed up and animated a heavy ball this week, when in fact I was supposed to animate a ball with the properties of a basketball or soccer ball, without s&s.
Here is my version of the "basketball."
Not bad, minus the fact that it rolls a bit too far and needs a bit more of a slow out at the end...
Class 1: Week 3
April 15th, 2005This week our lesson was on, "planning and blocking methods," which are some of the most crucial elements to becoming a great animator.
There are six main concepts behind planning a shot:
1) gut reaction
2) observation
3) thumbnailing
4) video referencing
5) feedback
6) what the director wants
Our assignment this week was to download the bouncing ball character and animate a ball bouncing from an orthographic side view. What I didn't notice, is that the fine print says to animate the ball as if it were a basketball/soccer ball. Ok, the print wasn't that fine, but somehow I never saw it and decided to animate a heavy ball, like a bowling ball.
Here is a playblast of my first attempt
And a revision
We were also supposed to create an excitement pose using Stu
Just like the fine print in reference to the bouncing ball, I didn't see that we were supposed to do this pose, so I turned it in late and didn't receive any feedback on it. I guess it's an okay pose, but feels a bit cliche.
My mentor
April 14th, 2005Say hi to my mentor for the first "quarter" of AM, Jason Ryan.
I'm pretty sure he's bigger than he looks here, but he's Irish, so who knows. Maybe he has leprechaun blood in him, and therefore is small and cartoony looking...
Jason is currently an animator at Disney Feature Animation, working on Chicken Little, and let me tell you, he can animate like no one's business, (not that it's any business of yours anyway). He drinks red wine during our Q&A's and likes taking long walks on the beach with his metal detector, looking for buried treasure. Ok, I made that last part up.
So yeah, this is Jason and he's swell.
Balance pose continued
April 8th, 2005Here they are, all together
More poses
April 8th, 2005Here is another pose that I worked on just to get used to Stu's controls.
Refinement progression for another pose...
The balance pose was popular with a lot of people and I received a lot of feedback on it. Poor Stu; everyone wanted to see him bite it.
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