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The rockin' Rick O'Conner gave our lecture again this week, this time on weight and balance, which was appropriate considering he's twice Sean's size. Not that Rick is that big, Sean is just that small...

Our assignment this week was to make improvements on the blocking of our shot we started last week, the heavy push. Here are my revisions and improvements.

Hmm, so you don't notice much? Well go back and compare this with last week's assignment. I wanted to spend this week tightening up my blocking, but instead I had to go back and fix all my horrible poses. You would think that after watching last weeks awesome class on posing that I would never create another poor pose in my life. Obviously this was not the case...

On a side note, though not to make excuses, last week I had a horrible case of poison ivy from playing paintball. If you know me, you know how bad I get poison ivy/sumac/oak/etc...

My right hand was the most concentrated area and horribly swollen and gross, which needless to say, left me unable to do pretty much anything at all last week. That meant that I had to do both this and last week's assignments this week. I love animating, but a double dose of AM homework is hard to keep up with, especially when I want to do an excellent job, (so much for that). So anyway, in some regards I am sure that played a small part in the quality of the past two weeks work. Hopefully I will be able to make up for it next week, but then again, next week is full of Siggraph preparations and my flight out of here. Oh wow.

Oh, and if anyone cares, my poison ivy is going away. I still itch like crazy, but I'm not as swollen or oozing anymore. Fun stuff...