Animation Mentor session 202

Posted on April 17, 2006  | Leave a Comment
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Here is my blocking based on Session 201 thumbnails. As you can see I pushed the poses a bit more so it doesn’t look like rotoscoping anymore.

There are 2 parts I am not very happy about (begining and end). Robert will probably put the finger on it. It is too late to do a correction for AM but it is still time for my blog.

Reference:

Blocking:

I didn’t give myself enough time for this assignement, thinking that I could nail it under an hour but I couldn’t be more wrong. Blocking is actually a fun exercise and I should have started earlier that week.

Session 203 is the first pass of refining. We have been told about different techniques to work on a shot, I am still a bit confused so I will just give you some keywords: Jason Ryan, copy pairs, Rick O’connor technique. This blog is a good thing, this made me realised that maybe I should do a bit of research about those techniques!!

My animation DVD collection

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I was talking with my friend Carmelo and offered to show him my animation dvd collection. Some good DVDs like Monsters Inc collector edition, some less good but found on the market for cheap 😉 and some cult movies like Dark Crystal!

Animation mentor Session 201

Posted on April 17, 2006  | Leave a Comment
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Here is the planing for my new assignement: 180 degree turn using our character Ballie. Based on our video reference material we have to plan our animation due for session 204. This exercise look a bit like rotoscoping but in fact when in the blocking phase we are gonna start giving a bit more life to the animation.