3am. My mobile phone starts ringing. What was the reason I set up the alarm so early? A guess, just a guess, the guess that we would have a special guest tonight for the 10th session of the frame grabbers.

Missing the one with Victor Navone told me that if on monday morning you receive some thumbnails with the regular videos then it is very likely that the author of them will be discussing the shot with us and if you receive Chicken Little preparation thumbnails then there is a great chance that you are gonna be talking with some freaking awesome animator!!!!!

Bang on! A 3am wake up is really a tough thing especially when you are helping your girlfriend Alicia moving house but I was really curious and I can say it was reallyyyyyyyy worth it!!!

Ladies and gentleman! clay kaytis

You see Animation Podcast? Well the same guy was tonight discussing his shot for the 10th session of the Framegrabbers. Clay happens to be a 2d guy who jumped in the 3d band wagon just like Disney animation supervisor Jason Ryan and Pixar Michael Wong senior animator and to me the 2d guys are just the most inspiring animators on earth.

From the Animation Podcast you can probably realise how much the guy wants to share animation knowledge and at school I was so gratefull to him for giving me an answer that probably took him about 3 hours to write.

Important moments of the Meeting:
45 mins -> about Graph editor
1h05 mins -> about Workflow.

Clay hung out with us for the rest of the session and gave us his view on the second video. “Sylvester Unbalanced” from ‘Gift Wrapped’

I had to go to bed soon after and will check the rest of the framegrabers offline tomorrow or the day after. The third video is from Madagascar, animated probably by PDI Jason Shleifer or my ex mentor Cassidy Curtis: “It’s Friday” from ‘Madagascar’

Olive

Bobby “Boom” Beck was in Paris on monday, too bad I couldn’t make it.

Here is a pic of the French AM team

Ok this is the WIP for this week’s assignment. This pass is only with the copy pairs for feet and hands and I have refined the throw on ones from frame 154 to 180. All the rest is straight from step mode to linear.

Next pass I will add the ball, make sure the hands are looked after (probably a polish pass), check the orientation of the head, do a copy pair on the spine and add more breakdowns.