So this is the work from the second half of the term. The assignments in this reel include:
★ Animating a pendulum to portray overlapping action
★ Using the Tailor rig (a ball with a tail) to continue to demonstrate overlapping action.
★ Animate a plain walk, aka a "Vanilla Walk", cycle with no character to it.
★ Animate a character walk cycle. For this assignment I chose a side stepping sneaky walk.
I shot video footage of myself doing a bunch of different walks with character and I included the one I chose in this reel. Shooting footage of yourself doing the actual movement is crucial! Reference footage shows all of the subtleties of the movement, things that you wouldn't think of. I also find myself continually getting up and acting out the movement over and over again to make sure I'm getting it right. Once you have that down it's time to start exaggerating. After all this isn't rotoscoping!
I'm constantly video chatting with my classmates throughout the week. They're awesome dudes, and I put up some links to their blogs. We tend to drink together. How can you not love a school where pants are optional and you can drink during lectures?
I realized I never introduced you to my mentor for this term, Sean Ermey. Check out his IMDB page here. He's a freelance animator from Texas and has worked on Jimmy Neutron, TMNT, and Ice Age 3. Really cool guy and I learned a lot from him.
Since this is our final week in Basic Foundations, our assignment is to revise our work and upload our class one reel. I'll post that next week on here. I promise.
