Ball bounces. Lots of ‘em.
Before we get to animator-ing, it’s good to look at real motion. I dropped a lot of balls, so we’ll have some variety. Feel free to use it! Really study and breakdown the basics! It carries over to more complex motions.
over the shoulder Q&A
Wow, information overload! Really glad I took notes today! Had sessions with two fantastic animators. Didn’t realize who I’d have a Q&A with until they started. Didn’t get a chance to talk to them this time, but it was great to listen to their insights: This morning we had our Q&A with Mike Gasaway — [...]
Frisbee round 4!
submitted this for the eCritique this week! (round 3 exists, but changes are subtle enough that it’s not worth posting)
Coffee Talk visit
Today was the first coffee talk I’ve visited since I’ve started class 1 at AM. Nice to see Victoria and the incoming AMers (haven’t had a coffee talk for about 3 weeks)! I’ll continue to stop by time to time because it’s always an inspiration to see where people come from and feel the hype [...]
“Strong” poses
Thinking about physical strength today (I was talking to people about marathons and obstacle courses), so I drew sketches of climbing, running, being strong, and any consequences of the like… got some good poses down
Alphabet Stu
I was thinking about lines of action for poses…then just about lines in general. I decided that I would try to match pose lines to something familiar, so how about the lines of alphabet letters? This was trickier than I thought, but I got some strong poses out of doing this
Tutorial for Rendering Stu
Here’s some links to tutorials of how to set up your shot with nice renders. Really useful, check it out! http://content.screencast.com/users/animationerd/folders/Jing/media/f4698e1c-9af0-4f42-8a22-46318e83f50b/00000002.swf http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2BydQ
Stu shoulder controls
To see the extra shoulder controls on Stu, put the following into the script editor: setAttr “stu_ac_R_shoulder.visibility” 1; setAttr “stu_ac_L_shoulder.visibility” 1;