Class 1 Progress Reel

 Below entries will start at the beginning of class and move chronologically by date entry.

Class Begins

The term for Class one has officially begun. I have my first Q&A This Wednesday. My mentor for the class will be Wes Mandell. So far everybody in the AM community have been very kind and giving lots of warm welcomes. It is great to see the energy and to feed off of it.

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First Assignment

First assignment has two parts. The first is to sketch people in public while in various poses.  The second part is to look over those sketches and pick the best one.  Then use  the sketch to arrange the Stu model in the same pose.  Below are my rough sketches. Since Stu is more of a cartoon style model I decided to sketch out an exaggerated version to help translate how I am going to pose Stu.  

Assignment 1 Stu Pose

Here is the first pose of Stu the model based on the drawings in the previous post.

Ball Bounce preperation

The main focus of this assignment was all about preperation. They teach you should spend almost as much time planning as you do in animating.  Below is a diagram charting out a ball bouncing to a stop. As easy as it may seem I saved a lot of time sketching it out first.

Here is the animation.

Not perfect by anymeans. It actually slows down too fast at the end. Part of the problem is we are limited on how many frames we can use. So I was trying bring it to a stop before frame 100. I should have had the bounce start to loose energy sooner.  The other part of the problem I was fighting the graph editor while attmepting to learn how to use it.  I did not quite grasp the in's and out's. While I still have a lot to learn in the graph editor, things did finally start to click while working on the next assignment!