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Class 3 - Advanced Body Mechanics

This is the first post since the end of Class 2 and I'm currently in week 7 of Class 3! What a slacker. Well this is Advanced Body Mechanics. We got to choose any three shots we wanted to do that are physically intense. I chose to do a fireman theme.

The following two videos start out with the polished version, then blocking plus, blocking, and I've thrown in my video reference at the end. It's a backwards progression.

My first shot of the term involved a fire hydrant...



In the second shot he's trying to coax a fire victim out of a window.



I'll upload the finished rendered versions at the end of this class, which is in a few weeks. I'll try to post my progress more regularly. Thanks for checking it out!

AM 212 - Class 2 Finished!

Intro to Body Mechanics is done! The past three months seriously flew by. The video below is my progress reel. It includes my work from Classes 1 & 2 as well as the Maya Springboard Workshop (that stuff is atrocious!). Thanks for checking it out. I'm off the next two weeks, but I'm entering an animation contest during that time so I'll still be posting.

AM 211 - Dance Final

This past week I polished my shot, which I turned in today. I'm revising it though, because I didn't get a chance to track the arcs on the feet or the elbows, and I want to get back into the graph editor to smooth things out. That final version will be posted next week in my progress reel.

AM 209 - Dance Blocking Plus

I fixed some poses and added some more breakdowns to the dance. I also went ahead and set it to splined tangents and began cleaning it up today. Lots to be done!

AM 208 - Dance Blocking

I finished the first blocking pass of my dance animation today. The only thing I concerned myself with was creating the poses, 70 in total. I didn't even touch the timing yet, so it's way too fast. Unfortunately, 250 frames is the limit and I need to slow it down, so it looks like I'll be cutting out pieces so it'll fit!



It's now 10:30 and I've been up for over thirty-six hours, so it's bedtime for me. goodnight.

208 - New Dance Reference

I decided not to go with Carlton. Instead I chose the dance opening to Superbad. I was dying in the theater when this played...no one else thought it was as great.