Final "I'm Lost"

Here is the last pass on this assignment for class 4. I will go through and do another pass and continue to refine.

i'm lost further blocking

ugh, this shot has been neglected. I haven't put as much time into the blocking as I would like to but I gotta keep moving forward.

initial blocking for dialogue (i'm lost)

My first quick blocking pass. Only a few poses and some basic facial posing without mouth shapes.

final bad gift

here is my final pass on my "bad gift"animation. Next week I move onto planning for my first dialogue assignment. Exciting.

I might return to this animation for more clean up.

Thrown to the spline

Just finished up my blocking and put everything into spine with very minor cleanup. still to come, Refining.

Bad gift blocking

Here is the first pass at blocking for my latest assignment. Assignment 1 for class 4 at AM.

final fridge

Here is the final I submitted for my fridge assignment. I am sure I will do at least one more pass before I render but you will see that in my reel I submit next.

fridge refining pass

here is my current wip for this last assignment for class 3. alot of clean up and polish to get done. at least its moving better at this point.

Fridge blocking

Here is the first blocking pass for my new shot (fridge). The reference is at the end of the video. So far this idea isn't materializing but I am plugging away and really trying to solidify my skills. "just keep swimming, just keep swimming."

Chizzle- blocking through first spline pass

A little behind in my posting but here is my blocking for my current assignment.

here is my first pass at splining, alot more work to do here. I gotta get it together quick so I can get ready to plan my new shot next week.

not to excited about this one. It might just be the polishest turd ever.

AstroLad Final

Just got this one done. It turned out ok. There is some wonkyness to it but I think it turned out just fine. I had to just decide to walk away from this one and call it good.

Astro Lad Blocking

Well, a new class and my first pass at blocking. Here is my idea for my first assignment. 

I am still getting used to my new class and mentor this class. My mentor is Bryan Engram and he seems real cool. He is in Texas starting his own company. My class isn't has loose as my first two but we are all still figuring each other out. Should be good.

class 2 reel

Here are the shots I did for Class 2 at Animation Mentor.

Final piece from class 2

I have cleaned up the climb animation and added another 130 frames of the Stewie falling into frame and taking a ball back up into the tree.

climb fallowing blocking

this is my climb animation with my blocking complete and the splines converted to flat tangents. This is just the step fallowing blocking. I have to go through and clean up the animation.

finished up my second animation

I changed up the ending a little bit. I think this turned out ok. I had some real difficulties with making the character move on the ground but there is some good stuff in there also. I am gonna take another pass after I get some more feedback. hope you like it.

big push (blocking)

Here is the blocking pass of my "big push" animation. I wanted to keep this fun and clean with a good sense of weight. I think it is gonna be a challenge to have the character pushing and rolling on the ground like I have but I think it is gonna be a good opportunity to challenge myself.

Final first assignment of 2nd term

Here is my final "walk down the stairs animation." It turned out ok. I am definitely ready to move onto something else after working on this for 4 weeks.

Term 2 first assignment

For this first assignment we got to choose from a list of about 12 different actions to animate. I almost randomly selected to have the Ballie character walk down some stairs. This assignment is going to be a little different from past assignments because we have 4 weeks to do it. Here is my first week progress. Just blocking.

Term 1 Reel

Here is a compilation of all my assignments from my animation mentor class 1. Enjoy

Week 11

The pose for this week was "Balance." Just put the character in a pose that convey's that they are in balance. Here is what I came up with.

Here is my final personality walk. It turned out ok. I was going for something really subtle with this "old" walk.

Exhausted and blocking for personality walk

This is another walk i started this week just for fun.

Final walk and Concerned pose

Im not to happy with my pose here, its supposed to be a pose of concern. I think I just missed on it.

This is my Final pass on my vanilla walk. Again its supposed to have No character or personality to it, the purpose is to make a walk that is just physically working correctly.

next week will be the personality walks :)

Blocking pass on Vanilla walk

this is just the 1st pass at my vanilla walk. Everything is just blocked in at this point. Vanilla is referring to it being very plain. It is what it is, just a normal walk with no character and everything moving like they should.

Secondary action

I did two assignments this week. Emphasis on secondary action and fallow through.

Pendulum Final

The goal of this assignment was to focus on the fallow through and overlap on this box with a tail. I feel i was somewhat successful. I probably should have gone with something simpler than what i ended up deciding on but i was torn between focusing on just the physicality or having more fun and putting character into the assignment. At this point I need to leave the character entertainment value out and get things moving correctly. There will be a lot of assignments down the road that will be all about creativity.

Pendulum Practice

Since I have done this assignment before I thought I would do a basic animation and a more complicated one. So here is my basic pass.

This turned out alright but even with an easy attempt like this has so many minute details that need to be right for the movement to read properly. I was somewhat successful in this exercise. I'll have my more complicated attempt up in a few days.

Devastation

The other part of the assignment this week was to pose the Stu character in a in a way that convey's devestation (with no props).

Somewhat successful in this pose, There are a few things i could tweak to make this a stronger pose.

obstacle course

This week we had to send a bouncing ball through an obstacle course. The emphasis was on giving the ball squash and stretch.

I think i will go back and add some more squash and stretch to make it a little more fun and interesting to watch.

heavy and light revision

I made some minor fixes to my heavy and light assignment. Just subtle stuff but that is some very important stuff:)

Heavy and Light

This assignment was for us to show difference in weight and timing. I made a ping pong ball and a bowling ball.

AM Open House

Me and the family went to the Animation Mentor studio open house yesterday. It was really nice to get to talk to some of the employees of my school. Sadly there weren't any mentors to chat with. Bobby Beck was there but as usual he was mobbed by people and I didn't want to be apart of the desperate crowd. We had a lot of fun and not surprising that my Family got the attention from all the camera's

basketball bounce

My bouncing ball animation. This ball is supposed to have the properties of a basketball.

Excited pose

just my sketches and 3d pose for the excited character assignment. I think it turned out well.

Funny story though i got this pose by accident. I was acctually posing him in a 1 hand handstand pose but didn't like it then just rotated his whole body 180 so he was upright and in the air. I just had to do some minor tweeks. Happy accident.

thumb and 3d pose

First assignment. Thumbnail sketch and make a 3d pose of one of the sketches.

These poses i sketched while watching a show about the New York City Circus.

Reel of 2011

Here is my animation reel of 2011.

time to go

These last couple of weeks have been really busy but we are finally all packed up and ready to move. I have had to crunch my assignments together from this week and next week since i will be with out internet for a few days this weekend.

I have been doing thumbnails this week. from life and from tv. Its going ok but drawing isn't my thing.

I think I like the pose in the bottom left of the last page. I think i will continue to explore other poses as well.

first Q&A

Had the first Q&A last night. It was really nice to get to hear from everyone. We have a small class, only 8 members which i think will be beneficial. Alison is very nice and encouraging. I even made a few people lol with my "wife gave birth to a tornado comment."

I think it is going to be a positive class and I am gonna learn a lot from my mentor and classmates.