Workshop and Website

It's been months since my last post. Sorry about that, but not much has been going on since I was just waiting for Animation Mentor to start. Well that time is now! I just had my first Q&A session with a bunch of other workshop students and it was really cool. Everyone was really excited and talkative on the chatroom side of things, meanwhile, two people from Animation Mentor, Jay and Victoria, were answering student's questions on screen and video of the student's asking the questions appeared under them. I asked a couple questions and it was a little weird at first but really cool talking and interacting with people across the world!

So what have I been up to? Well I'm about a quarter of the way through The Illusion of Life and half way through The Animator's Survival Kit. Both books are really good so far and I think I'm going to order another book to help me through the Maya Workshop called The Modeling and Animation Handbook. Other than that I've been working on my site again and I fixed a few things that were wrong with it and also added a 'Drawings' section to my portfolio! Most of them are from my Drawing 1 class back in freshman year of college. So check them out. I've also decided that I'm going to take a figure drawing class at the Fleisher Art Memorial over the summer or in the fall, because I need to brush up on my drawing skills.

For the next couple weeks we're settling into the Animation Mentor site and have access to new sections little by little. Then in week four everything gets hardcore! Two Q&As a week and assignments galore! I'm really looking forward to diving in and learning how the hell to use this program I just spent $400 on.