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Class 2: Week 4

July 19th, 2005

Ok, I watched this weeks lecture 1,000,001 times. IT WAS THAT GOOD!

The lesson this week was a deeper look on posing, and how to make poses that are appealing, clear, strong, tell a story, simple, non-cliche... the list goes on and on. If you think about it, posing is really the most important part of animation, (yeah, I know, I say that every week about whatever principle we are currently studying). It's true about posing though, you could have the best timing and overlap in the world but if your poses aren't clear, the audience has no idea what the character is doing.

So there, posing is the most important part of animation at least this week.

Our assignment this week is to start blocking out a new shot, in stepped mode, of Stewie pushing a heavy object up an incline. Here's my first blocking pass.

So is the box really that heavy, or is Stewie that wimpy? Kinda like the chicken/egg question, isn't it?

I think it's a decent start, though some of the poses are pretty bad, and the timing needs tweaked. This is a good example of why you need to use video reference as just that, reference. If you follow it too closely, certain things don't work very well, ie: the feet positions/rotations.

Crits or comments are welcome as always, really. This means you.

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