Posted on April 2, 2006 |
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Here is my Class 01 Showreel in the following state:
1. Perspective walk cycle, not done
2. Personality walk (sneak walk), the Heel shouldn’t make contact
3. Vanilla walk…. still a big concern
4. Taylor, problem with hoockup between first jump and second, tail animation to be redone from scratch
5. Pendulum, needs more hangtime and a slower settle
6. Obstacle course, I am pretty pleased with it but might have to remove one frame towards the end of the animation
7. 2 balls of different weight, the heavy one needs one more bounce
8. boucing ball. Well, with the Obstacle course, those 2 animations are the only ones I am happy with…. can I make a career out of making balls boucing? not too sure about that 🙂
Animation Mentor is an amazing school but you need to make sure you are gonna be able to fully commit before you start or you might end up wasting your time and a lot of money!!
Yes it is online but it is still a very intensive course and with one assignement every week, only 2 breaks during the year, you’d better make sure that you won’t have any financial, personal, physical issues.
I started to suffer from CTS towards the end of Class 01 and had to take a break from animation when all my fellow classmates where having fun doing Walk cycles. Luckily I had some very good grades at the begining and managed to get to Class 02.
Stu pose : exhausted
Stu pose: Balance
Posted on April 1, 2006 |
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Today is the first of April but AM is not the kind of school do april fools so well, I am pretty lucky this time again. Robert Russ will be my new mentor for Class 02.
“Robert Russ joined Pixar Animation Studios in 1996 and has had the opportunity to work on almost all of the Pixar films. He began his work at Pixar as a crowd animator on “A Bug’s Life”. From there, he moved on to work as an animator on “Toy Story 2,” “Monsters, Inc.” and the Academy Award©-winning, “Finding Nemo.” For Pixar’s sixth feature film, “The Incredibles,” Robert was able to expand his role as an animator by assisting the character articulation team to build the basic set of controls that animators use to animate all the characters. This process involved helping design the controls, model testing and creating animation tests. Once the control creation process was complete, Robert directed his attention to animating the characters Edna Mode (“E”), Mr. Incredible/Bob Parr and Elastigirl/Helen Parr.”
I have seen his previous E-critiques and it looks like all the hard work we are gonna put into our assignements will pay off.
Posted on April 1, 2006 |
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Today was the final Class 1 Q&A. Salem was the only student missing. This class was a blast and Cassidy was definitely the right mentor we needed for our entrance in the animation world. See you all the Euros at Annecy!!!
Regarding my last assignements, I am now suffering from a start of CTS (Carpal Tunnel Syndrome) and will probably have to leave the last 3 assignements as they are. I will try to give my wrist some time off for the moment. I have been using a Wacom tablet since the begining of AM but that still didn’t prevent it to happen. I have now bought a chair with Armrests and next week I am gonna buy a proper desk or just reorganise my old one.
Posted on March 31, 2006 |
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Planning of the Sneak walk:
Spline mode Vanilla walk and first pass Sneak Walk
Stu pose exhausted. no time to do too many sketches this week and it looks like I made the wrong choice.
Revision 108 refining. This is when everything started to go wrong. Too busy at work to spend time on AM, CTS worries, Step mode to Spline workflow issues…. as you can see I deviated a lot from the original planning in order to fix knees pop but I am now ending up with a walkcycle too even on the Y axis. I am still trying to find a workflow in order to fix that.
