AnimationMentor - Class 2 Progress Reel

AnimationMentor - Class 2 Week 11 - Weight Lifting

My initial plan proved to be rather long and complex. I cut it down (for now) so that the assignment includes the main 'thing' - weight lifting. For some reason the rendering didn't come out very good. The animation is unclear because of the shadows. I'll give it another run tomorrow. Because of today's deadline this will be my 'graded' version.

AnimationMentor - Assignment Week #9

For the second week of this assignment we're supposed to bring it to a level where the blocking includes most of the breakdowns (and of course has all the fixing from the previous).

After adding more of the breakdowns I needed to adjust lot of the timing as well and realized that much needs to be cut out to fit the animation within the given frame limit (250). This is the full version that I'll edit:

We have another two weeks to complete this project. That means now to go over all the arcs and refine them, making sure that stewie looks really alive and the box looks really full of heavy gold bars (or cash)! Refine all the poses, timing, etc. Lot more to do! Also I'll try to fix up the set and of course the red alert. And the mask for stewie seems like a must.

Week 8-11 Assignment - Push a heavy object

We are now in week 8 and starting a new assignment.

I've put down the initial poses of the planning stage so that the story is clear. The next step is to go over the entire animation and clean up the timing and the current poses. Also to build the set. I'll get to it just now...

Almost forgot, the story goes like this. Stewie is in a desperate financial situation (depression 2008) and decides to rob a bank and get all the gold bars from the safe. The quickest way to get the gold to the truck waiting downstairs is through the plank he set up for this.

Week 4-7 Assignment - Jump up on a box

Week 4 Assignment

Here is the final version of my side step

AM Class 2 - Assignment Week #2 - Take a step to the side

In the last three weeks of the previous semester I was pretty much travelling so I'm redoing all those assignments. This is how I'm spending the last few days of freedom. This meaning, it's time I decided to look for a job!

And of course in the meantime class 2 started. As I gathered from the class curriculum, there will be only 2 main final assignments this term. We drill down into the very details of the workflow and the actual animation, from taking reference, planning, blocking out the shot, revisiting all the time, cleaning up the shot with squash and stretch, overlap, etc. I'm finally done with the blocking part. It changed greatly from the initial reference to make the shot work for ballie.

Class 2 Started!

Just to show how cool it is to study at AM...This week's QnA session I did from a camping trip. Took my laptop and connected via the cellphone to the session.

Life is good! Cheers!