Friday, December 18, 2009

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.

Sunday, December 13, 2009

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.

Sunday, November 29, 2009

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!

Sunday, November 22, 2009

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.

Thursday, November 19, 2009

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.

Sunday, November 15, 2009

207 - Jump "Final"

Here is what I submitted for my final.



I'm not terribly happy with it. I'll put some more work into over the next couple days and post the final final.

For my next and last assignment of Intro to Body Mechanics I'm doing a dance. Not just any dance, mind you, a Carlton dance!!



now let's hope i can pull it off.

Wednesday, November 11, 2009

Jump Blocking Plus

I switched my shot over to splines this week. Lot's of work left to do to get it right before I start polishing. This is where it is now.



Oh yeah, fun computer problems in the past week. Been to the apple store twice before finally just reformatting my computer. It's blank, mam.