yata!

i finished class 2! hoorayyyy

coffee :)

this is fantastic!

week 10? already??

i did it! i finished my blocking plus and handed it in on time. this week was basically a huge struggle the whole time. i tried to take all the notes i was given by my mentor and peers and really get it into this pass.


obviously there is still a lot of work to be done, but i feel like its a big improvement on what i turned in last week.

i ordered two books online and got them in last week which was pretty exciting. they're both really cool... eric goldberg's character animation crash course! and dan romanelli's draw the looney tunes. bryan recommended the looney tunes one. actually i don't know if i ever mentioned him before in my blogs which is silly, i should have. my mentor this term is bryan engram. he works at reel fx and is a really great mentor! last term i had nicole herr as a mentor and she was great as well. fun stuff, i love animation mentor. really really fantastic program.

anyway, i'll try to post a video of my shot from last week. time is flying! can't believe it's already week 10 and then its on to class 3! gonna go watch heroes now, how i met your mother was a repeat or i'd watch that too. yay monday night tv!

wow its been awhile!

well i haven't updated in a long time! i guess its been kind of crazy over here. anyway, 2 weeks ago i submitted my post jump final.
here it is..


i haven't put my first assignment up but i want to still do some revisions. then i'll put it on up here! i still want to make some revisions to the post jump.

oh, and here is my progress reel from class 1!


aaaand here is a song from dr. horrible's sing a long blog because i really like it. if you haven't seen it, i think you should!


this next project i have stewie pushing a couch. so i'll put that up soon!
woooooiieee

well that was brief.

week 12!

Okay! so I made it through the first term of AM! and it was awesome!!

this past week the pose was balance. at first, yoga immediately came to mind... because yeah.. you need balance for that for sure!

but check this out.


so this is the pose i submitted.


and here is the completed flower girl walk.


i don't know that i'm completely happy with it.. i think it feels little floaty but it was due and that's what i turned in. and man oh man.. those knees were killer.

i can't believe that it's week 12! this class FLEW by. man, i'm so pumped for class 2!

walk like an egyptian

heyy, so this week was kinda crazy! i did some revisions. here's the revised vanilla walk.


and also after reviewing my critique i revised my concerned pose.


ok, so the assignment for this week was a character walk. we were supposed to animate ballie with a personality! fun stuff. nicole really stressed knowing your character this week in class and said that coming up with a backstory for why ballie is walking the way he is would help a lot.

originally, i was going to do a ballerina walk. i thought it would be really fun, i could give ballie long legs and move them a little closer together to make it more feminine. i watched ballets online and then found music to animate to (esmeralda), planned out a walk, did video reference, and started blocking the whole thing out. well, 5 am thursday morning (assignments are always due on sunday) i realized i hated it. i felt like the walk i was doing was missing the point of the assignment. it was turning out to be some weird choreographed dance. so i called the quits. once i woke up again, i decided to go a completely different direction and animate ballie as a 5 year old flower girl walking down the aisle at a wedding. and she didn't know that there were going to be so many people there and they're all watching her! so she's kind of in awe by the whole situation but she knows she's supposed to walk forward.. she can't help but take it all in at the same time.

so that's my story. and here's the blocked out animation..


and the pose for this week was exhaustion. something i know very well.. haha


so the assignment this week is to finish the character walk, splined and everything and then the pose is balance.

we're also supposed to get a personal assessment this week from our mentors so that's pretty cool. anyway, i think i'm gonna get away from the computer for a bit.
ciao

cute

so many things to do!

week 9

week 10 of animation mentor already! i can't believe how fast it's come up. few more weeks and we're finished with the first term!

yikesss

ok so the pose for this week was concern.


aaand the assignment that was due was was the finished walk from last week.


so this week begins with character walks! i'm pretty excited-- should be fun.

lawyered.

..dary.


this past week's pose for Stu was "physical strength." i watched a bunch of strongman videos and got the idea for my pose from that.



we also had to block out a vanilla walk.



this week we have to smooth out and finish the walk cycle. also we have to create a concerned pose for stu. maybe i'll watch a soap opera or something, they're always concerned or worried about something, right?

yuh boi

hey! so, after a month of living out of boxes and sleeping on the couch, i've officially moved into my new room in st. pete! aaaaaannndd i've got my brand new 24" imac set up. 3.06 processor, 4 gb of ram. yeah, i'm totally loving it!



sweet. aaand yeah! 8 weeks ago, i started my first semester of animation mentor and it's been awesome. i'm learning so much. i learned a lot at ucf but this is so great because you really get to focus in on character animation which is exactly what i want to be doing. so it works out pretty fabulously.

this week we're working on vanilla walk cycles. i'll post a video later i think.

in other news, i finished watching season 3 of how i met your mother. um, yeah. cliffhanger. ugh, i can't wait for the new season to start... soon though.. yeahhh. i think it will be legend....