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Animation Mentor 104

Posted on February 10, 2006  | Leave a Comment
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Here is my planning for Session 104, Two bouncing balls with different weight.

And here is the animation….. As you can see….. the timing on the planning has NOTHING TO DO with the final animation 😉 This is I think what we call the learning process 😉

Animation mentor session 103 revision

Posted on February 7, 2006  | Leave a Comment
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The mighty Bouncing Ball


Stu excited

Animation Mentor 103

Posted on January 30, 2006  | Leave a Comment
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Here is my revision for last week assignement, I won’t dare posting this week’s bouncing ball and Excited pose as both are pretty crap. Wait for this week revision;-)

Animation Mentor assignement 102

Posted on January 22, 2006  | Leave a Comment
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Sketches for my assignement at various locations: Snooker Club, Kick boxing class, skilled people skateboarding and below is Stu pose, based on sketch 2. I went a bit over the top with Stu pose I must admit. I was looking for something very graphical and tried to draw S curves everywhere even on the spine which worried Cassidy a lot 😉 I will try to give him a more Health and Safety compliant pose then.

102 Q&A

Posted on January 20, 2006  | 1 Comment
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stuff we talked about the Q&A today

“Simplified Drawing forPlanning Animation” is the book specific to Thumbnailing for animation.

Vilpu great life drawing and sketching courses, the guy is regularly holding Life drawing classes at Dreamworks, Disney etc.. Stephen Silver was mentionning him in his interview for all the articles and that one in particular http://mag.awn.com/index.php?ltype=Columns&column=vilppu&article_no=375 (7 pages)

I was also suggesting the reading of Hillman Curtis (not related to Cassidy) to Maciek regarding how to get inspiration MTIV Process Inspiration and Practice for the New Media Designer

And finally exhaustive and maybe exhausting notes on AnimationMeat.com Walt Stanchfield notes

Bobby and Shawn first Q&A

Posted on January 19, 2006  | Leave a Comment
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Animation Mentor Q&A 101

Posted on January 13, 2006  | Leave a Comment
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sorry I didn’t manage to get everyone this morning…but you can send me some screenshots from your webcam and I will add you

Animation mentor

Posted on January 8, 2006  | Leave a Comment
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ok I have had my teacher assigned for this term, it is gonna be Cassidy Curtis. I couldn’t find any information about him on AM website but found loads of stuff on google well at least someone with the same name. So Curtis could be Senior animator at PDI/dreamworks and would have therefore worked on the excellent Madagascar! nice. I am now a bit puzzled, the classes are supposed to start today but i have no idea when/where/how….

Animation mentor

Posted on January 4, 2006  | Leave a Comment
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this is it, I am officially enrolled at Animation Mentor. The last 2 weeks have been a bit stressful. I only received my animation mentor enrolment package mid December and it took me some time to gather all my diplomas. Anyway, this morning I finally received my student number and got familiar with Animation Mentor interface. I am still to be assigned a mentor which I expect to be before saturday since the session starts this sunday.

Dell misleading techniques

Posted on December 30, 2005  | Leave a Comment
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After receiving one more misleading email from Dell today, I have decided to expose their techniques.

Their last email was featuring a Dimension 3100 that was previously advertised for £369 and now selling for £299. The picture is representing a nice looking computer with a TFT screen. Click here to see the Email advert

An Intel Pentium4 2.8ghz coming with XP home, 160Go HD, 1024 DDR2 ram for £299!!! what a bargain but it says Excl. VAT and Delivery… Oh ! there are also 2 asterisk… Let see the small print…. “** Now Price quoted includes Free Delivery and special Price Reduction Offer if any”

Hum… Ok I am lost here…. Let s click on the More details button then !

What have we got here…. didn’t it say £299 before ??? Yes ? so why is it saying £383 now?? That s even more expensive than the price the Computer was going for before!!! and it now says with no asterisk “VAT and Shipping NOT included”. And where is the TFT SCreen??? oh it is now an option for £40! Nice one! But ok, it now says “initial price also includes and upgraded support service for your added protection. Alternatives are available” …. What the hell does this mean??? I see a grey box towards the bottom of the page. It says, “The following options are default selections included with your order” “1-Year Collect and Return service” … Would that be the trick?? Hold on i saw something above.. in the section called “Cover it with Dell Support Services” oh I see, by default, what they call the “Basic: 3-Year On-site service & Multimedia E-Learning [Included in Price]” has been selected and just above you have an option called 1-Year Collect and Return service [subtract £84.00] Nice one 😉 I thought it was the default selection! Alright enough said! If this is not a misleading advert with pushy techniques what is this ? I wonder if someone could bring such techniques to a Small Claim court… I might investigate the idea one day if I get bored.

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